MH370: Bluefin-21 operation almost ends, no sight of missing plane

The search operation of the missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 since March 8, entered its 49th day with no information to give a definite answer to its disappearance. Until now the Bluefin-21 Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) vehicle has completed nearly 95 percent of its operations and so far there is no clear indication that can help to identify the exact location of the missing aircraft. According to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), the search today involved eight aircraft and 10 ships in an area of 49.240 square kilometres with a concentrated at 1 584 kilometres to the North East Perth. Bluefin-21 started its 13th operation this morning, still centred on 10 km radius of the ‘ping’ signals detected on April 8. MH370 flight departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12:41 midnight and disappeared from radar scan about an hour later while flying in the skies over the South China Sea. The plane was supposed to arrive in Beijing at 6:30 am March 8. The finding mission was accompanied by various countries to track the MH370 aircraft, beginning at the South China Sea after plane deviated from the original route, the southern Indian Ocean.