Finding doomed Malaysia jet might take years, U.S. Navy official warns

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Finding doomed Malaysia jet might take years, U.S. Navy official warns
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With the chances of locating Malaysia Airlines Flight 370's black box before its battery runs out continuing to dwindle every day, a U.S Navy official expressed reservations about ever finding the doomed jet. Although the search area has been narrowed down to 200,000 square miles southwest of Perth, Australia, the purported plane debris spotted by various satellites still hasn't materialized.

"Right now, the search area is basically the size of the Indian Ocean, which would take an untenable amount of time to search," said Capt. Mark Matthews at a press briefing Sunday.

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Jordan Valinsky is the lead writer for Speed Reads. Before joining The Week, he wrote for New York Observer's tech blog, Betabeat, and tracked the intersection between popular culture and the internet for The Daily Dot. He graduated with a degree in online journalism from Ohio University.