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Old 5th May 2014, 03:24
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A panel of international aviation and SAR experts from around the world will convene in Australia's National capital Canberra, this week, to go over all the previous information, calculations and assessments, to see if anything new can be added to it, and to try and further refine the current position of the aircraft.

The report produced by this panel will be handed to the independent underwater contractor hired by the three countries who are the search leaders - Australia, Malaysia and China.

Interestingly, the Chinese are refusing to wait for any private underwater contractor to be be hired, and are sending their own underwater search technology and ship to the search zone this coming Saturday, to continue to try and find the aircraft.
This rather secretive Chinese vessel is only defined as "Navy vessel 872, with strong underwater search capabilities".
There are apparently requests by some Chinese experts for the Navy to utilise the Chinese manned Jiaolong submersible, which has extreme depth capabilities - 7000M (22,965') - but there is no official indication at this point, that the Jiaolong will be used.
One would tend to define the Chinese efforts as "gung-ho", but that's the Chinese way.

MH370 search area to be reviewed

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