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Wreckage unlikely to solve MH30 mystery, says expert

KUALA LUMPUR — Even if the remains of flight MH370 are found, the degradation of its recording instruments will mean that the mystery of its crash will likely remain unsolved, Australian media ABC news said.

A message left on a board of remembrance at a vigil for MH370. Reuters file photo

A message left on a board of remembrance at a vigil for MH370. Reuters file photo

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KUALA LUMPUR — Even if the remains of flight MH370 are found, the degradation of its recording instruments will mean that the mystery of its crash will likely remain unsolved, Australian media ABC news said.

Malaysia recently agreed to resume the search for flight MH370, contracting American exploration firm Ocean Infinity (OI) to lead in search efforts.

The company is due today to begin looking within the new 25,000 sq km search area.

"We can roughly cover 1,200 sq km a day. Which means that we will finish the first 25,000 within first three to four weeks of the search," chief executive Oliver Plunkett was quoted as saying by the ABC.

However, Australian aviation specialist Trevor Jensen questioned the financial viability of the search, saying that whatever data that can be obtained from the wreckage would be greatly compromised, according to the report.

He said flight recorders and voice recorders will be damaged by now since the MH370 flight disappeared in March 2014.

The Malaysia Airlines jet disappeared on March 8, 2014 with 239 people – mostly from China – on board en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, triggering one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.

No sign of the plane was found in a 120,000 sq km search zone selected by satellite analysis of the jet's likely trajectory.

Only three confirmed fragments of MH370 have been found, all of them on western Indian Ocean shores, including a 2m wing part known as a flaperon. THE MALAYSIAN INSIGHT

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