Recovery operations in the southern Indian Ocean will be suspended after ships finish scouring the 120,000 square-kilometer (46,330 square miles) zone. Wild winter weather and waves more than five stories high have delayed the A$180 million ($134 million) mission in the Indian Ocean. An original mid-year search completion target has been pushed back to as late as December, Liow said at the media conference. “This does not mean that we have given up,” Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said at a media conference. Four other pieces that turned up on Africa’s eastern seaboard and in Mauritius almost certainly belong to the doomed jet, according to investigators.

Source: Thanhnien News July 22, 2016 08:26 UTC