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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Tory Shepherd

Australia should back new search for MH370, top official who led first effort says

Visitor holds a lit candle to pay tribute to missing passengers during a commemoration event to mark the anniversary of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight
Peter Foley, the program director for the international search for MH370, says it is time for a new search and ‘this time we need to search until we find it’. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

The Australian government should get behind a new search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the man who headed up the initial search says, now that new equipment and data is available.

Peter Foley was the program director for the international effort, led by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, to find the plane. MH370 went down on 8 March 2014 with 239 people on board. The disappearance of the plane is one of the world’s greatest enduring mysteries.

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