Wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may never be

 found: Angus Houston

Original article

The newspaper

Air tragedies are not really frequent but their consequences are extremely high. The 7th of March a Malayisia Airlines flight had an accident over the sea, and since that day both, the airplane and all the passengers, haven´t been found.

An incredible big search has been put in action since that day in order to find them. A new ship (DMS Seahorse Standard) will join a flotilla of three other Australian vessels by the weekend, with other six Chinese ships and the Malaysian frigate KD Leiku. Apart from all this, there were 10 aircraft in the search area 1850 kilometres west of Perth on Tuesday.

This search is really complicated. Angus Houston, head of Joint Agency Coordination Centre, talks about the difficulty of this particular search as there is lack of awareness about the velocity of the airplane and how far it travelled. He warns that, in case they don´t find surface debris or wreckage, the search will become incredibly complicated. He mentions other cases where the search last a lot longer than what it was expected, as it happened with the disappearance of HMAS Sydney, which took 60 years to locate.

He also admits that technology has improved a lot since then, but the main problem is that the Australian Maritime Safety Authority revealed a new search area about 1100 kilometres north-east of the previous zones on Friday. It´s not an exact science, but this happened because the plane had been travelling faster than what it was firstly thought.

So, all in all, although the situation seems to be really difficult, countries and everyone who is involved is trying to do their best to find them, despite some of the familiars of the passengers don´t think so and say they aren´t getting enough information about the recovery operation.