Search for missing Malaysian airliner to resume in Indian Ocean

Australia and Malaysia on October 5 will resume searching for the missing Malaysian airliner, which disappeared over the Indian Ocean in March this year, ITAR-TASS reported.

It was originally planned to begin a new deepwater operation on October 2, but it was postponed till next Sunday because of bad weather, an Australian transport safety agency official said.

The Malaysian and Australian governments have chartered three special ships used in ocean exploration for oil and gas. Some of them already participated in the first phase of search, when they mapped the ocean floor.

The new search zone will be further south to the area examined in March and April. After analyzing a great amount of satellite data, specialists decided to look for the airliner not west, but south-west of Australia on the area of 60,000 sq km.