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A crew member aboard a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) AP-3C Orion uses binoculars as it flies over the southern Indian Ocean during the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. (Reuters/Rob Griffith)

MH370 Search Over

Charlie May, Kristen Gelineau

A crew member aboard a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) AP-3C Orion uses binoculars as it flies over the southern Indian Ocean during the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. (Reuters/Rob Griffith)

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In this March 31, 2014 photo, a shadow of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion aircraft is seen on low cloud cover while it searches for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean. ((AP Photo/Rob Griffith))

In this March 31, 2014 photo, a shadow of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion aircraft is seen on low cloud cover while it searches for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean. ((AP Photo/Rob Griffith))

In this March 31, 2014 photo, a shadow of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion aircraft is seen on low cloud cover while it searches for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean. ((AP Photo/Rob Griffith))

In this Thursday, April 17, 2014 photo provided by the Australian Defence Force the Phoenix International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Artemis is craned over the side of Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield before launching the vehicle in to the southern Indian Ocean in the search of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370Malaysia Airlines MH370. Up to 11 aircraft and 12 ships continue to scan the ocean surface for debris from the Boeing 777 that disappeared March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. (AP Photo/Australian Defence Force, Bradley Darvill) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (Lsis Bradley Darvill)

Crew move the U.S. Navy's Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle into position for deployment in the southern Indian Ocean, April 14, 2014. (Reuters/Peter D. Blair)

Malaysia Airlines flight MH192 bound for Bangalore turned back towards and parked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Monday, April 21, 2014, after its right landing gear malfunctioned upon takeoff. The airline says Flight 192 carrying 166 people landed safely at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport early Monday, four hours after it departed. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian) (AP)

Crew move the U.S. Navy's Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle into position for deployment in the southern Indian Ocean, April 14, 2014. (Reuters/Peter D. Blair)

Crew move the U.S. Navy's Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle into position for deployment in the southern Indian Ocean, April 14, 2014. (Reuters/Peter D. Blair)

A man places a LED candle after a mass prayer for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, April 6, 2014. The head of the multinational search for the missing Malaysia airlines jet says that electronic pulses reportedly picked up by a Chinese ship are an encouraging sign but stresses they are not yet verified. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin) (Lai Seng Sin)

In this April 7, 2014 photo provided by the Australian Defence Force a fast response craft manned by members from the Australian Defence's ship Ocean Shield tows Able Seaman Clearance Diver Michael Arnold as they scan the water for debris of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean. Up to 14 planes and as many ships were focusing on a single search area covering 77, 580 square kilometers (29,954 square miles) of ocean, 2,270 kilometers (1,400 miles) northwest of the Australian west coast city of Perth, Australia. (AP Photo/ADF, LSIS Bradley Darvill) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (Lsis Bradley Darvill)

In this April 4, 2014, photo provided by the Australian Defence Force, the Australian Defence vessel Ocean Shield tows a pinger locator in the first search for the missing flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder in the southern Indian Ocean. Ocean Shield, which is carrying high-tech sound detectors from the U.S. Navy, was investigating a sound it picked up. (AP Photo/ADF, LEUT Kelly Lunt, HO) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (Leut Kelly Lunt)

In this April 4, 2014, photo provided by the Australian Defence Force, the Australian Defence vessel Ocean Shield tows a pinger locator in the first search for the missing flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder in the southern Indian Ocean. Ocean Shield, which is carrying high-tech sound detectors from the U.S. Navy, was investigating a sound it picked up. (AP Photo/ADF, LEUT Kelly Lunt, HO) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (Leut Kelly Lunt)

In this Monday, March 31, 2014 photo, a shadow of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion aircraft is seen on low cloud cover while it searches for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean. Malaysia's national police chief has warned that the investigation into what happened to the plane may take a long time and may never determine the cause of the tragedy. Khalid Abu Bakar said Wednesday, April 2, that the criminal investigation is still focused on four areas hijacking, sabotage and personal or psychologica problems of those on board the plane. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, Pool) (AP)

A woman arranges a candle as relatives of Chinese passengers onboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 offer prayer during a candlelight vigil for their loved ones at a hotel in Beijing, China, late Tuesday, April 8, 2014. An Australian ship is reported to have detected two distinct, long-lasting sounds underwater that are consistent with the 'pings' signal from aircraft black boxes, and is being seen as a possible advance in the month long hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, but the 'pings' still have to be verified. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (AP)

In this April 4, 2014, photo provided by the Australian Defence Force, the Australian Defence vessel Ocean Shield tows a pinger locator in the first search for the missing flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder in the southern Indian Ocean. Ocean Shield, which is carrying high-tech sound detectors from the U.S. Navy, was investigating a sound it picked up. (AP Photo/ADF, LEUT Kelly Lunt, HO) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (Leut Kelly Lunt)

In this April 4, 2014, photo provided by the Australian Defence Force, the Australian Defence vessel Ocean Shield tows a pinger locator in the first search for the missing flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder in the southern Indian Ocean. Ocean Shield, which is carrying high-tech sound detectors from the U.S. Navy, was investigating a sound it picked up. (AP Photo/ADF, LEUT Kelly Lunt, HO) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (Leut Kelly Lunt)

Wing Commander Rob Shearer looks through binoculars on the flight deck of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion aircraft searching for missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370 over the southern Indian Ocean, March 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)

CORRECTS IDENTIFICATION OF EQUIPMENT TO A TOWED PINGER LOCATOR - A Towed Pinger Locator (TPL), used to detect black box recorders, sits on the wharf at naval base HMAS Stirling in Perth, Australia, ready to be fitted to the Australian warship Ocean Shield to aid in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Sunday, March 30, 2014. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which oversees the search, said the ship will be equipped with the TPL, an unmanned underwater vehicle, and other acoustic detection equipment. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith) (Rob Griffith)

In this Monday, March 31, 2014 photo, a shadow of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion aircraft is seen on low cloud cover while it searches for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean. Malaysia's national police chief has warned that the investigation into what happened to the plane may take a long time and may never determine the cause of the tragedy. Khalid Abu Bakar said Wednesday, April 2, that the criminal investigation is still focused on four areas hijacking, sabotage and personal or psychologica problems of those on board the plane. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, Pool) (AP)

Flight officer Rayan Gharazeddine on board a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion, searches for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in southern Indian Ocean, Australia, Saturday, March 22, 2014. A satellite image released by China on Saturday offers the latest sign that wreckage from a Malaysia Airlines plane lost for more than two weeks could be in a remote stretch of the southern Indian Ocean where planes and ships have been searching for three days. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, Pool) (Rob Griffith)

Malaysia's Defense Minister and acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein shows a printout of the latest satellite image of objects that might be from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, at Putra World Trade Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Hishammuddin said the objects were seen close to where three other satellites previously detected objects. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul) (Joshua Paul)

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2011 file photo, police officers monitor debris washed ashore on the Mount Maunganui Beach as a shipping container fallen from the grounded container ship Rena sits in the breakwater near Tauranga, New Zealand. Not only is the trash a time-wasting distraction for air and sea crews searching for debris from the Malaysia Airlines flight that vanished March 8, it also points to wider problems in the worlds oceans. The ocean is like a plastic soup, bulked up with the croutons of these larger items, said Los Angeles captain Charles Moore, an environmental advocate credited with bringing attention to an ocean gyre between Hawaii and California known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Mark Mitchell) AUSTRALIA OUT, NEW ZEALAND OUT (AP)

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