Search for MH370 resumes after delay caused by software glitch

A Chinese woman tries to comfort other relatives of Chinese passengers on-board the Malaysia Airlines flight as they cry outside the Malaysia embassy in Beijing yesterday. Source: AP

THE search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has resumed, after a software glitch yesterday delayed the underwater mission.

An autonomous underwater vehicle was deployed yesterday about 1584km northwest of Perth.

But a software fault that required a resetting cut short the Bluefin-21 device’s 13th underwater mission yesterday.

Technicians fixed the problem overnight, and the vehicle’s 14th underwater search resumed today.

Up to eight military aircraft and 11 ships are also joining the search, which has covered 95 per cent of a designated underwater search area.

Search teams have been focusing on a 10km radius after a second “ping” was detected on April 8, potentially emanating from the plane’s black box flight data and cockpit voice recorders.

The Bluefin-21 would continue searching near that area if nothing was found, the Australian government’s Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre said in a statement.

Nothing has been seen of the plane or its 239 passengers and crew since it vanished off radar screens during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8.

Six Australians and two New Zealanders were on board.

source: theasutralian.com.au