Combing Ocean for Flight 370 Harder Than 2-Year French Hunt
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As the search for the missing Malaysian jetliner shifts to the vast expanses of the Indian Ocean, the hunt for an Air France plane that vanished over the Atlantic in 2009 provides some sobering lessons.
Wreckage from the French jet took two years to locate on the seabed even though debris was found floating five days after the plane went missing. In the case of Malaysian Flight 370, a week of searching has produced not a trace of physical evidence.