ABOVE: World leaders coordinating the search efforts for Flight 370 say the investigation may never produce answers to why the Boeing 777 vanished on March 8 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. But even still, authorities say the search will go on. Marlie Hall has the latest.
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TORONTO – Malaysia’s prime minister says the search for answers in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 won’t stop.
“We want to provide comfort to the families and we will not rest until answers are indeed found,” said Najib Razak. “In due time, we will provide a closure for this event.”
Razak met Thursday with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Abbot called the search “the most difficult in human history.”
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“We cannot be certain of ultimate success in the search for MH370 but we can be certain that we will spare no effort, that we will not rest until we have done everything we humanly can,” he said.
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Although Australia is co-ordinating the ocean search, the investigation into the tragedy ultimately remains Malaysia’s responsibility.
No trace of the Boeing 777 has been found nearly a month after it vanished in the early hours of March 8 on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, including two Canadians.
Australia steps up efforts in MH370 search
Australia has stepped up efforts in its search for the vanished flight over a vast area of the southern Indian Ocean.
Ten planes and nine ships have been searching a zone located about 1,500 kilometres west of Perth.
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A P3 Orion aircraft returned to the Pearce air force base after a one-day search. Despite good weather, the pilot said they had yet to find anything new.
“Today, up there the weather was pretty good. The cloud base wasn’t too low, the visibility was pretty good, the sea state was also pretty good,” said the pilot of the aircraft in an interview with The Associated Press. “Unfortunately though, we didn’t see anything at all of interest. So, a fairly quiet day for us out there.”
Australia’s defense vessel Ocean Shield has a black-box detector on board and is on its way to the region.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has drawn out a search zone of about 221,000 square km, set 1,504 km northwest of Perth.
A Japanese P-3 Orion aircraft also joined in the search Thursday.
Malaysia police say jet mystery may never be solved
On Wednesday, Malaysia’s national police chief said the investigation into the disappearance of Flight MH370 may never determine the cause of the tragedy and said the criminal probe is still focused on hijacking, sabotage and personal or psychological problems of those on board the plane.
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A frustrating dearth of information has plagued investigators from the moment the plane’s transponders, which make the plane visible to commercial radar, were shut off.
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