Plane Hunt Yields No Debris as Search Enters Last Zone
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An international team hunting for the missing Malaysian passenger jet is trawling the last leg of a search zone for wreckage after an unmanned submarine failed to find traces of the aircraft.
The Bluefin-21, which bounces sound waves off the Indian Ocean floor to create images of the seabed, has scoured 80 percent of the targeted area without establishing any “contacts of interest,” according to an e-mailed statement from the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, the Australian body that’s coordinating the effort. The submarine is in its ninth mission.