Last year, the world was shocked when Malaysian Airlines flight 370 disappeared from scanners on March 8th, 2014. Search parties immediately went out to find evidence of what happened to the plane. The media spent months speculating about what could have happened, from terrorist attacks to alien abductions. After weeks of searching, the Malaysian government announced that they believe the plane was somewhere on the floor of the South Indian ocean. An in-depth search of a 1,800 mile region of the South Indian Ocean began in October. Now, as we approach the end of the search period, the search team hasn't found any evidence.
This revelation has led Malaysian travel minister Liow Tiong Lai to announce that "If the search does not yield anything by May or after we have completed the 60,000-square-kilometre search, then we have to go back to the drawing board."
According to Liow, this would require the team to go over the crash data again to find another possible explanation. However, Liow wasn't able to specify what that process would entail, but he promised that, regardless of the results, the search would continue.
These comments come after Australian officials noted that recent data results are reason enough for search teams to consider prematurely cancelling the South Indian searches.
Liow also mentioned that a team of investigators who had been studying the plane's disappearance of the last year would release their results "any day now".
All of this comes out days before the 1st anniversary of the MH370 disappearance.
