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Malaysian Search Finds Shipwreck
MH370 search discovers uncharted shipwreck.
16:46 14 May 2015
The team that has been searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has discovered an uncharted shipwreck in the southern Indian Ocean. The head of the search team, Peter Foley, said that although the discovery was fascinating, it was “not what we’re looking for.”
He added: "Obviously, we're disappointed that it wasn't the aircraft.”
"And this event has really demonstrated that the systems, people and the equipment involved in the search are working well. It's shown that if there's a debris field in the search area, we'll find it."
MH370 went missing last year en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. No explanation has been provided for the disappearance and no traces have been found. Search teams now focus off the coast of Western Australia, where it is believed to have crashed.
Meanwhile, a senior maritime archaeologist at the West Australian Maritime Museum confirmed that the wreck is of a 19th century cargo ship.
"We've got quite a lot of stories about ships that sank in the Indian Ocean mid-voyage and you would be struggling to tell which is which unless you had a complete catalogue of all the ones lost.”