Published on April 2, 2014 at 10:40
London: A British Royal Navy nuclear submarine vessel has been dispatched to join the search for the missing Malaysian flight.
A Survey ship called HMS Echo will join HMS Tireless, the Trafalgar Class submarine to conduct search operations for the missing Boeing 777. The main aim of their combined operations are to trace out the flight recorders of the missing plane.
As per the latest reports, the Trafalgar-Class submarine has been recently arrived at the spotted area and conducting search operations for the flight recorders.
Flight MH370, bound for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur was disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board, with a three-week search finding no sign of it.
During initial days search areas were repeatedly shifted. But currently as per expert radar analysis and satellite data, the search operations are focused on a 98,000-square mile area in the southern Indian Ocean near Perth in Australia.
Video on the operations of British Royal Navy Submarine