Flight MH370 Update: Australia Plans To Call Off Search

Emirates president Tim Clark announced this week that Australia will call off the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 once the funds are exhausted later this year and if the aircraft has yet to be discovered.

Flight MH370 Search Update: Australia Calling Off Search

“I think it is only a question of time before the search is abandoned,” Clark said at the International Air Transport Association annual meeting Tuesday, reported the Sydney Morning Herald. “Do we have solutions? Do we have explanations? Cause? Reasons? No. It has sent us down a goose chase. It will be an Amelia Earhart repetition.”

“I’m not going to say anything about what I think happened,” Clark added. “It remains an unresolved mystery. Somebody knows more about this than they are prepared to say. That is all I’m going to say.”

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared off the radar on March 8, 2014 en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. The missing aircraft had 239 people onboard. The investigation into the aircraft’s disappearance led authorities to believe that it was located in the Southern Ocean offshore from Western Australia, which is where the search remains focused today.

The search, organized by Australian, Malaysian and Chinese governments, is ongoing, but will soon be coming to an end. Clark has expressed his sympathy for the families of those who were lost in the plane crash, as it’s likely that they will never know exactly what precipitated the tragedy.

“I really feel for them – particularly some of the letters from the people when they heard the things I’d been saying in the press about how it should have been dealt with in a different way,” he said. “I was severely moved by this. To face [the aircraft loss] anyway is the worst possible thing. But to not know? To not have closure? To face the torment of this. This is unbelievable, quite honestly. We move on, but they don’t move on.”