MH370: Search continues after Bluefin-21 completes mission seven
Astro Awani
April 20, 2014 11:59 MYT
April 20, 2014 11:59 MYT
Planned search areas for flight MH370 in the Indian Ocean on April 20, 2014.
Up to 11 military aircraft and 12 ships will assist in today's search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Today the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has planned a visual search area totaling approximately 48,507 square kilometres, across two areas.
Early this morning, Bluefin-21 AUV completed mission seven in the underwater search area. Bluefin-21 has searched approximately 50 per cent of the focused underwater search area to date.
The focused underwater search area is defined as a circle of 10km radius around the second Towed Pinger Locator detection which occurred on 8 April
No contacts of interest have been found to date.
Bluefin-21 AUV's eighth mission has commenced.
The weather forecast for today is scattered showers, isolated thunderstorms in some areas, and east south-easterly winds.