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Australia Rebooting Search For MH370

McGruber (1417641) writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that two months after pausing its search for the missing Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200ER, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is ready to reboot its search. The ATSB is poised to select among bids from the world's most-advanced deep-water specialists, including offshore oil-and-gas companies, maritime research institutions and treasure hunters eager to use their technologies and experience to solve the Flight 370 riddle—and potentially raise their own profiles in the process. ... With no hard evidence of where the plane went down, the search will test the recovery industry's abilities like nothing before. In June, Australian authorities shifted the search zone for a third time — by about 600 miles to the southwest — after reanalyzing satellite transmissions. Even then, they said it was impossible to know whether the fresh search area would prove correct."

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  1. Conspiracy theory alert! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They will never find it because it never existed. We all know it was taken by the CIA because of the engineers on the plane. Now the other plane was shot down by a Ukraine fighter jet in order to convince the UN to get involved. WMD ... nothing to see here.

  2. Re:Why the Australians? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because our current prime minister is the textbook definition of populist, and he needs things like this to look good if he has any chance of convincing the plebs to vote for him next time around.

    Nothing at all to do with the plane, in case you were wondering.