Search for MH370 about to end --with mystery unsolved, forever

Australian officials are increasingly confident they will locate the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines MH370 before July. The claim is based on the fact that some prime locations where the plane could be are about to be searched and that officials are confident the plan is within the planned search area.

LOS ANGELES, CA (California Network) - Martin Dolan, the head of the Australian Air Transportation Safety Board, said that he is confident the plane will be found soon.

MH370 was lost exactly two years ago on March 8, 2014. The cause of the crash is still under investigation, although it is certain everyone on-board perished. Radar and communications data reveal the plan diverted its course about an hour into flight, and followed a winding path west, out over the Indian Ocean. The plan made a final turn south, and it is thought to have cruised in a straight line for several hours until running out of fuel and crashing into the sea.

So far, only two pieces of debris have been recovered, although the most recent find has not been confirmed as coming from the Boeing 777 jumbo jet.
 
Martin Dolan told the Guardian about the search, "We now know that there's a range of those places the aircraft isn't in, but that hasn't changed the overall probability that the aircraft is in the total search area," Dolan told the newspaper. "To eliminate that from the search - assuming we don't find the aircraft - we have the cover the whole area," he said adding, "We've still got some serious area to cover, including some areas in the assessment that are highly prospective for finding the aircraft, and the aircraft's very likely there."
 
Dolan also made clear that if the plane isn't found by the end of this search period, the search would be terminated. An expensive, long-running international search for the plane has cost billions of dollars and yielded not a single trace of the aircraft.
 
Chinese relatives of the victims are upset at this news, pointing out that originally officials had pledged to search for the plane until it was found. Their outcry comes just as the period to file suits in Malaysian courts comes to an end. Under international law, relatives have up to two years after the plane was due to arrive to file suits. Already 96 people have filed suits and 42 have collected full compensation.
 
The most distressing part about the case, other than being unable to lay loved ones to rest, is the enduring mystery as to why the plane was lost in the first place. Was there a fire onboard the plane that eventually overwhelmed the pilots? Was it a suicide by the plane's troubled captain? Could the plane have been hijacked? Or something even more sinister?
 
Hopefully the wreckage will be found this spring and answers will follow, otherwise it could become a mystery, much like the loss of the RMS Titanic, taking decades, or much longer, to solve.
 

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