The multinational search for the plane has become one of the largest and most expensive in history.
A massive multinational search effort of the southern Indian Ocean, the China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand in the months after the tragedy turned up no trace of the plane and all passengers and crew were eventually declared dead.
The Malaysia Airlines flight, which disappeared more than a week ago, has been the subject of one of the most extensive multinational search operations in history, comprising the resources of 25 nations scouring oceans, and large tracts of land across 11 countries.
"We are in the middle of a multinational search involving many countries and more than 80 ships and aircraft.
A multinational search is under way, based out of the Western Australian city of Perth, both for possible wreckage and for audio signals from the plane's "black box" flight recorders.
The flight, which went missing shortly after leaving Kuala Lumpur on 8 March, has been the subject of an unprecedented multinational search effort.
An intensive multinational search has so far turned up no sign of the plane.
A multinational search began almost at once, a search which has become one of the largest and most expensive searches in history.
A multinational search effort has focused on seas some 2,500km 1,5000 miles) to the south-west of the Australian city of Perth.
A multinational search and recovery operation has found 70 bodies in the Java Sea and had hoped to find more after the discovery of the fuselage of the plane.
