Search for MH370 Officially Called Off

“We need to suspend the search, until further credible evidence”, he said. One family member told the Guardian, “Life is worth more than money”.

Their tireless work has continued to improve our knowledge of the search area and has been critical in our efforts to locate the aircraft. “We remain hopeful that new information will come to light and that at some point in the future, the aircraft will be located”, the ministers said.

“It’s quite disappointing, especially since I know there is data that would help [the search] that the Malaysians aren’t releasing”, Iannello said, including evidence that he said suggests the plane’s pilot might have played a role in altering the plane’s flight path and in its ultimate destruction. But now (it) can not be found and authorities just say suspended until new info, that is equivalent to it’ll be suspended forever.

“It is obvious that the search should be to the north”, Ghislain Wattrelos, a 52-year-old Frenchman whose wife and two children were aboard the aircraft, said in an interview. A wing flap of the aircraft was found on the Reunion Island, east of Madagascar. “But we don’t seem to have closure”.

ATSB chief commissioner Greg Hood said “residual search activity”, including satellite and drift analysis would continue until the end of February.

Despire the new modelling, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre that has overseen the search issued a Joint Communiqué announcing the hunt for the plane has been discontinued.

“Why not go there and search the recommended 25,000 sq km first and give it a last try, one last time”.

“I’m very angry”, she said.

Last month’s report identified an area of approximately 25000km² with the highest probability of containing MH370 wreckage.

Accustomed to mistrusting what they are told by government, many Chinese relatives refuse to believe their husbands, children and parents have died. It is the biggest and best clue so far to the fate of the flight.

Most of the passengers were from China. How long will that be and what is next? Investigations conclude that it disappeared in the Indian Ocean but it was not able to find a trace of the aircraft or the reason why it disappeared.

An initial search focused on an area east of peninsular Malaysia, but attention soon shifted to the west when it emerged the plane had changed course and headed into the Indian Ocean – just as its communications equipment had been switched off. “If not, we have to think of other ways to keep the search going”.

“This now means the families continues to lobby to find someone who is prepared to put up the money to continue the search until we can find the plane – it’s also important because if it can happen to this plane it can happen again”. They were so cocksure it was there but after three years and so much money and manpower poured in, what came out of it?