‘Finding missing MH370 to take decades’

A senior director of Malaysian Airlines says it would take “decades” to locate its passenger plane that went missing over the Indian Ocean more than 100 days ago.

The airline’s British Commercial Director Hugh Dunleavy said on Tuesday that he believes the missing Boeing 777 aircraft is “somewhere in the south Indian Ocean” and finding it would take decades.

“When [a plane] hits the ocean, it’s like hitting concrete. The wreckage could be spread over a big area. And there are mountains and canyons in that ocean. I think it could take a really long time to find. We’re talking decades,” he said.

He further said that something unusual happened to the ill-fated aircraft that caused it to turn back although it never made it back. “Something untoward happened to that plane. I think it made a turn to come back, then a sequence of events overtook it, and it was unable to return to base,” Dunleavy said.

Despite massive international search efforts that are projected to be the most expensive in history, mystery still surrounds the fate of the missing jet and the 239 people who were on board it as not a single piece of debris from it has been found.

The plane vanished on March 8 just an hour after leaving Kuala Lumpur on a flight to Beijing.

This is while investigators have concluded that Flight MH-370 was probably not seriously damaged in the air and remained in controlled flight for hours after contact with it was lost. The key evidence for such conclusion reportedly lies in a re-examination of the Malaysian military radar data.

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