(Bloomberg) -- Paul Kennedy couldn’t believe what his sonar showed him March 7: what looked like a debris field on the floor of the Indian Ocean. It’s Flight 370, he thought -- the Malaysia Airlines plane that had vanished 364 days earlier.
A camera was raced down to confirm that the aircraft’s wreckage had been found. Satellite Internet on the search vessels was cut off to prevent the news from leaking.
“We thought, ‘We might have solved this,’” Kennedy, a deputy managing director at search operators Fugro NV, said in an interview. “It was the right size, the right shape.”
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