Back to the drawing board

Charlie Campbell has a Time article about Flight 370:

The team investigating the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished with 239 people aboard on 8 March 2014, plans to re-examine its data and meet this week to discuss acquiring more sophisticated underwater search equipment
All data gathered in the nearly two-month hunt for the missing airliner will be re-examined to ensure investigators are looking in the jet’s most likely resting place, officials said.
A trilateral meeting between Malaysian, Chinese, and Australian representatives convened to discuss how best to proceed with finding the Boeing 777, which vanished shortly after departing Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for Beijing, China with 239 people on board.
Pioneering analysis of maintenance data transmissions by British satellite firm Inmarsat indicate the two-hundred-ton, twin-engine aircraft crashed about a thousand miles northeast of Perth in Western Australia. But after 334 air missions to scour two million square miles of ocean, combined with a combing of the seabed by underwater drone, not a single trace of the missing plane has been discovered.
“Unfortunately all of that effort has found nothing,” Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss told reporters in Canberra. “The operation must now enter a new phase.”
Operations will now be expanded to examine over twenty thousand square miles of ocean floor using more assets— most likely both towed side-scan sonar and unmanned submersibles— the acquiring of which will be discussed soon, but will likely be from private contractors.
“We will continue to search in accordance with the consensus reached at this meeting. We are sure that the search will not be interrupted, not be suspended, not be given up, and not slacken,” said Chinese Transport Minister Yang Chuantang. About two-thirds of the passengers on board the missing jet were Chinese citizens.
Malaysia’s acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein praised the “unprecedented” cooperation and “sense of urgency”. The operation was “structured and focused, and I believe we are on the right track,” he said.

Rico says this is gonna take longer than anyone hoped...