Malaysia Airline Flight MH370, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with its 239 passengers and crew in March last year, remains as one of the biggest mysteries in the whole of the aviation industry. Ten months after it vanished, authorities have scoured 26 percent or 5,400 square miles of the priority search area in the southern Indian Ocean. On the whole, investigators already covered a region "the size of Connecticut" and yet, the aircraft was nowhere to be found.
As per NBC News, investigators move on to focus on locating the black boxes of the Boeing 777 as these hold the most crucial information that will explain what happened to the missing aircraft.
"Assuming no significant delays with vessels, equipment or from the weather, the current underwater search area may be largely completed around May 2015," Australia Transportation Safety Bureau said in an update.
Everyone can only hope that in the next four months, MH370 will be found. Many trust that the plane is sitting at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, an area of tremendous enormity and exigent underwater conditions.
"The most likely theory is that [the plane] is down there in the southern Indian Ocean. And if it is there I'm almost certain it will never be found," author Nigel Cawthorne told Britain's Express newspaper.
"The current there is the worst in the world, the weather there is the worst in the world and the sea floor there is less well-known than the surface of the Moon. It is the most remote part of this planet," he added.
But the families who have not seen their loved ones for almost a year have not entirely given up, although the agonizing wait has made them and their friends extremely drained as answers about the whereabouts of the plane are still elusive. According to ABC, some kindred have employed a private investigator and approached authorities in China and overseas to find answers. A 63-year-old retiree named Hu Xiuqin is awaiting information about her son, daughter-in-law and grandchild who were onboard the jet.
"The staff at the liaison office in Beijing haven't done anything for us," she said via ABC. "We have submitted so many letters with our pleas through the office but we haven't received a single reply."
Sarah Bajc, girlfriend of Philip Wood who was on the plane, believes that the waters are not keeping the MH370 from sight.
"The reality is that we really do not have any proof at all of what happened to this airplane," Bajc said as quoted via Gospel Herald. "We don't have proof that it crashed in the water at all. There's been not a trace - not a tiny, tiny bit of evidence that it's crashed in the water."
