The center in Toulouse was also involved in analysing debris from the Air France flight AF447 which crashed on the way to Paris from Brazil back in 2009 that killed 228 people onboard.
Early in July, the search teams looking for the wreckage of the ill-fated Malaysian Airline Flight MH 370 were accused of missing vital clues that may have lead to the discovery of the missing plane in the ocean floor.
According to experts, the increasing cost of funding the massive search has been prompting the search team to do a half-baked job in sifting through thousands of square miles of ocean floor.
As a result, questions have emerged over the competence of the search teams, some 18 months after the flight’s disappearance.
Many are saying that the search teams might have used inappropriate equipment in conducting the hunt because it is nearly impossible for the current generation of sonars to miss the wreckage as big as the Flight MH 370.
Sonar images that have been released reportedly show shadowy areas that are large enough to conceal the wreckage of the missing plane.
As a result, there has been a growing clamor for the search teams to release their data. The search teams are part of the collaboration between the governments of Malaysia, China, and Australia. The three governments are also funding the search, whose cost may have gone over $200 million.