Drone completes first full seabed scan in jet hunt
Sample of oil slick from search area west of Perth is also being analysed
Perth, Australia
A DEEP-SEA drone has completed its much-anticipated first full scan of the seabed in the remote Indian Ocean, the team looking for a missing Malaysian jetliner said yesterday, as an air and surface search became less likely to yield results.
Footage from a US Navy deep-sea drone is fast becoming the most important tool for a multinational team still searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared from radar screens on March 8 with 239 people aboard.
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