Hunt for MH370 uncovers ancient shipwreck

The wreck is an iron or steelhulled vessel believed to have gone down at the turn of the 19th century, and has been discovered 3.7km down. One of three ships searching for MH370, Havila Harmony, used an autonomous underwater vehicle to further examine the find and captured high-resolution sonar imagery. 

An Australian-led team continues to scour the southern Indian Ocean seabed in the hope of finding the final resting place of the aircraft, which vanished on 8 March 2014 en route Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board. In July 2015,a two meter long flaperon wing part washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion and was confirmed to be from the flight, marking the first concrete evidence that it crashed. 

Nothing has been found since, despite more than 80,000 square kilometres of the seafloor being searched, based on satellite analysis of the jet’s likely trajectory after it diverted from its flight path. 

Investigators believe MH370 ran out of fuel and crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean, sparking one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history. Speculation on the cause of the plane’s disappearance has focused primarily on a possible mechanical or structural failure, a hijacking or terror plot, or rogue pilot action.