The search ship for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane MH370 left Australia for the final time in search of the airliner which crashed under mysterious circumstances in the southern Indian Ocean two years ago, officials on Tuesday said.
The MH370 flight disappeared on March 8, 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia, to Beijing. The flight had 227 passengers onboard the plane from 15 nations and 12 Malaysian crew members. Debris of the plane has been found in various islands mainly from Africa, however, the reason for the crash has not been ascertained yet.
The survey ship named Fugro Equator left Fremantle on Monday night to resume its search for the missing aircraft, Australian minister for infrastructure and transport Darren Chester's office said. The office said that the ship's final search journey would depend on the weather conditions.
Chester also thanked China for providing the services of a Chinese ship in February to join the search of the 120,000-square-kilometer area, where the plane was estimated to have sunk after crashing. Reports state that the Chinese ship is now on its way to Shanghai this month and the search ship leaving from Australia is on its final journey alone to find the Boeing 777 aircraft.
Frustrated with years of search for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, the families of the victims last month had decided to travel to Madagascar, Africa to search for the debris of the plane themselves.
Some of the relatives of the MH370 victims said that they are tired of waiting and decided to take matter in their own hands. The families have complained that there has been no systematic search for more wreckage of the plane and some of the possible findings of the wreckage have also been ignored by the Malaysian government.
The Malaysian government which is responsible for collection of the suspected MH370 debris has sent most of the possible wreckage to Australia for examination. The search parties have found six pieces of confirmed or possible wreckage of the plane so far.
Although the search in the sea has failed to locate the airliner, however the teams have found debris confirmed from the Flight 370 which washed ashore on the western Indian Ocean at Reunion Island, Mozambique, Tanzania, Madagascar and Mauritius.
