The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been called off, nearly three years after the plane disappeared with more than 200 people on board.
Crews have finished their deep-sea search of a stretch of the Indian Ocean without finding a single trace of the Boeing 777, which was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014 when it disappeared.
There were 239 people on board, including 12 members of crew. Most of the passengers were from China.
The Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre said the £133m search had been officially suspended after crews finished their fruitless search of the 46,000-square mile search zone west of Australia.
The end of the hunt raises the prospect that the world's greatest aviation mystery may never be solved.
In July 2015 part of the aeroplane's wing was found on Reunion Island.
Debris believed to be from the aircraft has also washed ashore in Mauritius, Mozambique, Madagascar and Tanzania.
However, very little of the plane has been found and investigators are still no closer to understanding what happened to it.
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