MH370 search scaled back

The intensive air search for wreckage from Flight MH370 officially ended yesterday as the hunt was drastically scaled back, with ships also leaving the Indian Ocean area where the plane is believed to have crashed.
Australian authorities said the focus would move "over the coming weeks" to an intensified undersea search in the quest to find out what happened to the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared on March 8 with 239 people aboard. The underwater search may take 8 months, sources said.
Eight nations have been involved in the unprecedented Indian Ocean hunt with more than 300 sorties flown across a vast expanse of water in the search for debris with no result.
The United States, Japan, New Zealand and Malaysia all confirmed that their aircraft were returning to base. As many as 14 ships from Australia, China and Britain were involved in scanning the ocean surface for debris or black box signals but many of these are also pulling out.