Search for plane will go on even if black box runs out of power

Search continues: Royal Australian Air Force loadmasters Sgt Adam Roberts (left) and Flight Sgt John Mancey launching a Self-Locating Data Marker Buoy from a C-130J Hercules aircraft in the southern Indian Ocean as part of the Australian Defence Force’s assistance to the search for Flight MH370. — EPA

SEPANG: It’s been a fruitless two weeks but the search for Flight MH370 will go on until the Boeing 777 is found – even beyond the 30-day life span of the batteries powering the locator beacons of its black box.

Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said the searchers would not lose spirit although they were not getting any closer to finding the aircraft.