The search for Malaysia Airlines MH370 in a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean has turned up the second centuries-old shipwreck - but no sign of the aircraft, reports Airwise News.
The flight - with 239 passengers and crew - went missing during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.
The Australian-led search has now become the most expensive ever conducted, and has covered more than half of the 120 000 square kilometre area mapped out as the most likely crash site.
It is expected to be completed by the middle of 2016, with a statement from Australia’s Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) ruling out any expansion of the search without “credible new information”.
Quoting the JACC, Airwise News said: “In May searchers found the wreckage of what was believed to be a 19th century cargo ship and now sonar imagery has identified what is likely to be a second shipwreck, a steel/iron vessel dating from the turn of the 19th Century.”
