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Three countries leading the effort to find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people aboard, say they plan to suspend their search for the missing airliner. While the search has turned up tantalizing clues, officials say hope of finding the jet is fading.

 that promised to be from the Boeing 777, ministers from Malaysia, China and Australia who met this week to discuss the state of the search also noted that "none of it had provided information that positively identified the precise location of the aircraft."


From Beijing, NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports:


The Malaysian transport minister was meeting with his counterparts from China, where many of the passengers were from, and from Australia, which is leading the search effort. They say the current search, of an area about 120,000 square kilometers, is nearly at an end, and that the chances it will prove fruitful are slim.  Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

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Of debris that's turned up, officials note that "none of it had provided information that positively identified the precise location of the aircraft."

Search for missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner will be suspended

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