MH370: Não há esperança de resolver o mistério

The head of the international team searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has warned that the hunt may not find floating debris and could “drag on for a long time”. Angus Houston explained that the search for the plane covered an area in the Indian Ocean about the size of Ireland and was seeking a vehicle whose last known location was thousands of miles away in the Strait of Malacca. “This will take time,” he said. “It is not something that is necessarily going to be resolved in the next two weeks for example… It is a very inexact science at the moment.” The 24-day search for the plane covered a quarter of the globe before narrowing on a stretch of the Indian Ocean late last week following analysis of a series of pings emitted by the aircraft. No wreckage has been found despite hopes being raised by sightings of objects which turned out to be fishing gear and ocean junk. An Australian navy vessel is towing a United States black box pinger detector and is due to arrive on April 3, just days before the pinger is due to run out of battery life. But the detector has virtually no hope of finding the black box without the discovery of debris which could indicate whether the plane crashed. The Telegraph