MH370 Search Delayed By Bad Weather

The underwater search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will extend into 2017 as bad weather has hampered the extensive search.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), which is leading the underwater search of 120,000 square km of the southern Indian Ocean, now expects to complete the task by February 2017.

The ATSB said over 110,000 square km of the seafloor has been searched so far.

A July meeting of the three countries involved in the search - Australia, China and Malaysia - agreed it would be suspended after the current 120,000 square km area is completed.

Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew onboard on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Investigators believe the plane was deliberately flown thousands of miles off course before crashing into the southern Indian Ocean off Australia.