MH370 Update: Joint Agency Coordination Centre Reveals That Two Objects Have Been Found; Prime Minister Tony Abbott Says 'On This First Anniversary We Remain Hopeful'

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It will be a year on Sunday since the MH370 flight disappeared and the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) revealed that only a handful of objects have been found.

The JACC and Australian Transport Safety Bureau have found a category two objects, an items that may be man-made but do not look like an aircraft debris. The image of the items look like shipping containers, the News reported.

As of this writing, there are no items that are identified as category three that needs immediate investigation.

Furthermore, Project Director for contractor Fugro Paul Kennedy disclosed how an area is only searched once because of the complexity and cost of the project.

"Before we go to site, we actually have to prove the equipment is fully functioning, so that when we're on location and we start searching, if we run over the aircraft, the debris field, we actually know we will detect it," he said.

"It's a very expensive search, we want to know that if we run over it, we know we don't miss it by accident because we will never go back go back there again for a second look."

According to The Business Times, the intensive research for the MH370 is jointly funded by Malaysia and Australia with a budget of A$120 million. The ships, Fugro Equator, Fugro Discover, Fugro Supporter and GO Phoenix are working on the said research.

Moreover, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that Malaysia and Australia are in agreement to develop a technology that can track aircraft to avoid the tragic incident of MH370.

"We must ensure that no families will ever again have to endure the suffering of the families of the MH370 passengers," Abbott said. "On this first anniversary we remain hopeful we will solve this baffling mystery."

The flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 people on board.

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