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Three-Year Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Ends Where It Started: Shrouded in Mystery - WSJ

In the weeks after Flight 370 disappeared, Australian officials said they knew less about the search area than is known about the surface of the moon.


That is still largely the case, officials acknowledge, but they have now mapped the region’s ocean floor. In the process, the search uncovered previously unknown undersea volcanoes and canyons, at least two shipwrecks dating back as far as the 19th century, along with more mundane objects such as discarded oil barrels. The search also lent a greater understanding of cold deep-ocean currents that drive Earth’s climate, said Robin Beaman, an Australian marine geologist.

“As a data set for the global scientific community there is nothing to match it,” Mr. Beaman said.

will probably go down as one of the biggest mysteries of our lifetime

poor families of the victims