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Missing Jet Officials Mull Revamping Fruitless Search Efforts


Leading Seaman, Boatswain's Mate, William Sharkey searching for debris in the Southern Indian Ocean on April 6, 2014.

As the Bluefin-21 unmanned submarine completed its eighth mission to look for wreckage from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Monday, having already scoured two-thirds of the 121 sq. mi. (314 sq km) focused search area, authorities in Australia are mulling whether to adjust or roll back efforts.

MH 370 vanished soon after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing early on March 8 with 239 people on board, and despite an intensive air, surface, satellite and underwater search, not a single item connected with the errant Boeing 777 has so far been found.

Australia's Ambassador to the U.S. Kim Beazley told CNN that the multinational search team would "regroup and reconsider" if nothing is discovered on the section of the southern Indian Ocean seabed currently being scanned by U.S.-made sonar-equipped autonomous underwater drone. "You may well also consider bringing in other underwater search equipment," he said. "All these sorts of things will be on the table if nothing is found in the next few days."