MH370 search team loses sonar detector mapping seabed

The Australian team looking for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has lost the sonar detector being used for the search. 

The deep-water detector collided with a mud volcano which rised 2,200 metres from the seafloor. 

Both the device and the snapped cable are now resting on the sea floor. 

The search team believe they will be able to recover both at a later date. 

The Joint Agency Coordination Centre overseeing the search, did not say whether the loss would delay their operation, which is expected to be completed by June.

The Flight disappeared in March 2014, with 239 people on board, during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.


SOURCE: BBC