Last-ditch £56m search for missing plane MH370 lost for 11yrs is suspended after just DAYS… because of the weather

INVESTIGATORS have suspended the last-ditch search effort to find the doomed MH370 plane that vanished more than a decade ago.

Malaysian authorities said they were forced to stop the seach operation due to bad weather conditions.

Ocean Infinity

Ocean Infinity’s search vessel has been deployed to a new search zone in the southern Indian Ocean[/caption]

National Geographic

A computer-generated image shows what the MH370’s final moments might look like after it’s believed to have plummeted into the Southern Indian Ocean in 2014[/caption]

Reuters

A Boeing 777 flapiron cut down to match the one from flight MH370 found on Reunion island off the coast of Africa in 2015, is lowered into water[/caption]

Transport Minister Anthony Loke said: “They have stopped the operation for the time being, they will resume the search at the end of this year.

“Right now, it’s not the season.”

MH370 carrying 239 people disappeared from radar screens on March 8, 2014, while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Despite the largest search in aviation history, the plane has not yet been found.

Loke’s comments come just a month after Malaysian authorities announced a fresh hunt for the doomed jet.

After years of stalled efforts, the government finally approved Ocean Infinity’s latest search.

And the plan was to cover a vast 15,000 sq km (5,790 sq miles) area in the southern Indian Ocean.

The deep-sea exploration company had dispatched its cutting-edge mothership the Armada 7806 to a newly identified high-priority zone 1,200 miles off Perth, Australia.

This is the fourth major search for MH370 to have failed.

Experts warned the mission could be the final attempt to find the wreckage — unless new evidence emerges.

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