Malaysia missing plane: Search at 'critical juncture'
20:19, 19 April 2014
KUALA LUMPUR. KAZINFORM - The search area for the missing MH370 plane has narrowed and will be at "a critical juncture" in the next two days, says Malaysia's acting transport minister.
Hishammuddin Hussein said an underwater drone would finish searching the area within the next week, BBC News reports. The Bluefin 21 mini-submarine has so far found nothing after six missions. Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing in March as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing carrying 239 people. The Bluefin is mapping the area of the sea bed within a 10km (six miles) radius of where acoustic signals were detected believed to have come from the aircraft's flight recorder. It is operating at a depth of more than 4,000m (13,000 feet). Full story