This coming March will make two years since Malaysian Airlines flight MH-370 disappeared from radar screens. The search for the bulk of the plane’s wreckage is still going on. But this week comes news of another discovery made by the search team. HPR’s Bill Dorman has details in today’s Asia Minute.
The team still searching for the wreck of Malaysian Airlines flight MH-370 has stumbled across a shipwreck, believed to be roughly two-hundred years old. That word came this week from researchers at the Shipwreck Galleries of the Western Australian Museum.
The Malaysian Airlines flight was bound from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it disappeared in March, 2014. At the time, the search for the plane was a daily obsession in much of the global media. But while the story has long ago moved off the front pages, the search for the bulk of the plane’s wreckage continues, led by an Australian government agency.
This summer, a section of wing washed ashore on a French island in the Indian Ocean. The Paris prosecutor’s office has linked serial numbers on the wreckage with the Malaysian Airlines plane. But the maritime search for the main wreckage goes on daily, and is expected to continue through the middle of this year.
So far, teams have covered an area roughly the size of South Carolina, but they still have an area to cover which is nearly the size of Ohio. This is the second shipwreck discovered by the team. The experts at the museum say believe this is a ship that’s largely made of iron or steel. The director of the search said "It’s a fascinating find, but it’s not what we’re looking for."
