A new hunt for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 using high-tech underwater drones has started, officials said on Tuesday, in the latest bid to solve one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. A ship operated by exploration firm Ocean Infinity arrived at the search area in the Indian Ocean on Monday and launched the drones, said Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation director-general Azharuddin Abdul Rahman. “The vessel Seabed Constructor has arrived at the search area and commenced the search operation,” he said in a statement. The new search zone is an area of about 25,000 square kilometres in the southern Indian Ocean, north of the former search area. Only three confirmed fragments of MH370 have been found, all of them on western Indian Ocean shores, including a two-metre wing part known as a flaperon.

Source: Pakistan Today January 23, 2018 13:41 UTC