Malaysia will deploy more assets for the deep-sea search in the southern Indian Ocean to aid the Australia-led efforts in locating Flight MH370 went missing nearly four months ago.
Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the Royal Malaysian Navy vessel, KD Mutiara, which has the capability of the multi-beam echo sounder, would join the search efforts to assist in the current bathymetric survey process.“The ship will set sail on August 4,” he told reporters after launching the MH370 Photo Exhibition on Sunday.The Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Boeing 777-200 with 239 people, including five Indians, on board went missing on March 8, an hour after taking off from Kuala lumpur International Airport.
After the plane went missing, a massive multinational search was launched, first in the South China Sea and later extended to the Melaka Straits and Andaman Sea, before the search teams shifted their attention to the waters off western Australia in the southern Indian Ocean, half way to Antarctica.