Search for Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane Resumes

[Baclava]

Remember the time when everyone was so SURE they'd find it in a day or two?





SYDNEY, Australia — The deep-sea underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 resumed overnight on Thursday with a remote-controlled submersible scouring the seabed in an area where searchers still believe they detected acoustic signals from the jet’s flight data recorders.

A Chinese survey ship, Zhu Kezhen, will also begin mapping the ocean floor before commercial operators that will use towed side-scan sonar equipment when they join the search to try to locate debris from the missing jet.

The remote-controlled submersible, the Bluefin-21, had searched what was believed to be the likely crash zone, covering about 150 square miles of the ocean floor at depths of close to 14,800 feet, when searchers were forced to bring it to the surface because of equipment failure.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/world/asia/search-for-missing-malaysia-airlines-plane-resumes.html?_r=0

[winter is coming]

1. Well, at least we know what'll be on CNN for the rest of the month. n/t