A very long, long search

IT is now 30 days since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared. A multinational team has tirelessly scoured the possible search and rescue sites, from the South China Sea to the Malacca Straits, Andaman Sea and the remote Indian Ocean, with no sign of the missing aircraft.

The massive hunt has even been dubbed by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott as “the most difficult search in human history,” as time runs out to recover the aircraft’s black box before batteries pinging their location die out.