PhotoHONG KONG — Almost three years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared with 239 people on board, officials said on Tuesday that they had called off the underwater search for the plane after finding no trace of it. “Today the last search vessel has left the underwater search area,” the governments of Australia, China and Malaysia, the three countries that oversaw the search, said in a joint statement on Tuesday. “Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has not been located in the 120,000-square kilometer underwater search area in the southern Indian Ocean,” a zone of more than 46,000 square miles. “Accordingly, the underwater search for MH370 has been suspended. The decision to suspend the underwater search has not been taken lightly nor without sadness.”Investigators have come up with several theories about what happened to the plane.

Source: New York Times January 17, 2017 06:54 UTC