Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 finally called off with mystery unsolved - The Washington Post
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The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was finally called off Tuesday after nearly three years spent combing the desolate Indian Ocean and its deep seabed, leaving one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time unsolved.
The governments of Malaysia, Australia and China said crews finished an underwater sweep of a 46,000-square-mile zone of seabed without finding the missing Boeing 777.
The most complex and expensive search in aviation history cost around $150 million but failed to locate the plane, let alone answer the questions surrounding its disappearance in March 2014.
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“The decision to suspend the underwater search has not been taken lightly nor without sadness,” the [Joint Agency Coordination Center in Australia] said.