Undersea search for MH370 ends after 3 years

Australia, Malaysia and China have suspended the deep ocean hunt for missing passenger jet MH370 after nearly three years without result.  

The Malaysian Boeing 777 aircraft disappeared while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board in what has become one of aviation's great mysteries.

A joint statement from the three nations said on Tuesday that the plane "has not been located" in the 120,000 square kilometer search area of the southern Indian Ocean.

One year after the tragic incident, only three pieces of debris were confirmed as traces of the plane. The traces were found washed up on the island country Mauritius, the French island Reunion and an island off the coast of Tanzania.

As many as 30 other pieces of wreckage were found at beaches in Mozambique, Tanzania and South Africa, which were suspected to have come from the same missing plane.

The joint statement on Tuesday said "despite every effort using the best science available, cutting edge technology, as well as modelling and advice from highly skilled professionals," the search has not been able to locate the aircraft.

The governments said the suspension was not "taken lightly nor without sadness" but that "to date no new information has been discovered to determine the specific location of the aircraft."

"We remain hopeful that new information will come to light and that at some point in the future the aircraft will be located," they said.

The search for MH370 was on an unprecedented scale and in one of the world's remotest locations, where winds tear up north from Antarctica whipping up mountainous seas.

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