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Source: Compiled from several chronologies, listed here
News Chronology for Wednesday, 30 April 2014
- April 30, 2014
- ABC The intensive aerial search for surface wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 officially ends, with ships also moving out of the remote Indian Ocean area where the plane is believed to have gone down.
Australian authorities said the focus would transition "over the coming weeks" to a more intensified underwater search in the quest to find out what happened to the aircraft.
Eight nations have been involved in the unprecedented hunt - Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, the United States, Britain and China - with more than 300 sorties flown across a vast expanse of remote ocean looking for debris.
But with nothing to show for their efforts from scanning more than 4.5 million square kilometres from the air since March 18, the planes were stood down.