MH370 search resumes

The BBC has an article about the continuing search for the Malaysia Airlines plane:

The next phase of the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has begun in the southern Indian Ocean. A ship equipped with specialized sonar technology has arrived in a remote stretch of ocean where the plane is believed to have ended its flight.
The Boeing 777, with 239 people on board, went missing after it veered radically off course on 8 March 2014. Its whereabouts are still unknown, despite a massive international air-and-sea search operation. Australian officials believe the plane was flying on autopilot when it crashed. Using satellite data, officials have concluded that the airliner ended its journey in the Indian Ocean, north-west of the Australian city of Perth.
A vessel contracted by Malaysia, the GO Phoenix, began its work in the seas about eleven hundred miles off western Australia. It will tow underwater sensors over the sea floor, scanning for traces of jet fuel, and using sonar and video to try to locate the plane.
The Phoenix will be joined later this month by two ships sent by Dutch contractor Fugro  (photo) . The operation could last at least a year. 

Analysis by Richard Westcott, BBC News transport correspondent

Investigators will be eventually be towing three vehicles, each about the size of a small car, from three ships, on the end of ten-kilometer armored cables, at a walking pace, across an area the size of Croatia, that's littered with mountains that could dwarf the Alps.
They will be hoping that their sonar picks out odd-shaped lumps of plane debris in a area that is already peppered with odd-shaped rocks.
The search area is based on a technique that's never been tried before. In effect, they've used some innovative number crunching, based on the fact that the missing plane automatically checked in with a base station seven times while it flew along. A bit like when your phone buzzes next to a loudspeaker even when you're not using it.
The word challenge doesn't even begin to describe this search. But that doesn't mean to say that they won't get a piece of luck and eventually solve one of the world's most disturbing mysteries.
The head of Australia's transport safety agency, which is leading the underwater search, said he was "cautiously optimistic" the next phase, jointly funded by Malaysia and Australia, would eventually locate the plane.
"Cautious because of all the technical and other challenges we've got, but optimistic because we're confident in the analysis," Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "But it's just a very big area that we're looking at."
Irene Burrows, whose son and daughter-in-law were on the flight, also said she believed the plane would eventually be found and that her family would be able to move on. "We're in limbo," The Associated Press quoted her as saying. "It will be good to know where it is. I think that's what is important to all the family."
The previous search was suspended four months ago to allow for detailed mapping of a huge area of sea bed. That survey uncovered previously unknown extinct volcanoes, and depressions up to fourteen hundred meters deep.

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