It’s been quite a while since flight MH370 made its mysterious disappearance, and nobody still seems to have any clue what happened to the plane and where it’s currently located. It disappeared on March 8, 2014, and since then, a lot of effort has gone into attempting to recover the plane, but mostly to no avail. The search zone was extended too, but despite covering an even larger area, search parties still haven’t been able to locate the wreckage.
Currently, they’re searching over 60,000 square kilometers of the Indian Ocean, and while that’s a pretty large area to cover, the current search efforts are well organized and coordinated. Still, it looks like it will be a while before we hear any news about the airplane’s whereabouts, if it’s even eventually located.
After all, it won’t be the first aircraft to go missing without a trace forever, even in today’s times with our active use of modern technology and advanced gadgets that assist the search efforts to a large extent. It’s still very difficult to cover the large area where the plane could have crashed, and things are made even harder as time goes by and natural forces complicate the operations.
There have been rumors recently that the search might be called off, but Malaysian government reassured people that there are no such plans at the moment, and they’re still putting in all the effort they can in order to ensure that the plane is found as soon as possible. On the other hand, they also stated that the search area might even be expanded again, growing to twice its current size.
That would mean that search operations would then be spread over 120,000 square kilometers, a very large area to cover and one that would require significant amounts of effort. It’s not clear at the moment whether search operations are going to be increased as well, or if they are just planning to make the area larger, but one thing is certain – it will be a long time before this search attempt is called off, and at the moment, everyone is still completely on board.
Before the search area is expanded though, the current one has to be covered completely, and that will still take some time. When the current 60,000 kilometers have been scanned entirely, the operation will be moved to another area of roughly the same size, although things will likely be a bit more difficult now as the area is expanding outwards.