澳總理：無人潛艇可能一週內結束失蹤客機搜尋

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says a robotic submarine scanning the Indian Ocean floor for the missing Malaysian jetliner will finish its current search within a week.

Mr. Abbott told the Wall Street Journal if the so-called Bluefin-21 submarine does not find any wreckage by then, authorities will stop, regroup, and reconsider how to proceed.

The Australian agency coordinating the search said Thursday the vehicle completed its first full 16-hour mission after two previous missions were cut short because of technical problems.

The Bluefin-21 has so far searched 90 square kilometers of the ocean bed. But authorities say they have found "no significant detection" in the sonar data collected.

U.S. Navy officials had previously warned it could take up to two months for the submarine to scan the current 600-square kilometer search area.澳大利亞總理阿博特說，在印度洋海底搜尋馬航失蹤客機的“藍鰭21”無人潛艇將在一週內結束搜尋行動。

阿博特對華爾街日報說，如果“藍鰭21”在一週內沒有發現失蹤客機殘骸，有關當局將停止搜尋，重新進行部署，並考慮下一步如何行動。

澳大利亞搜尋行動協調中心星期四說，“藍鰭21”首次完成了16個小時全程搜尋馬航失蹤客機的任務，此前兩次海底搜尋都提前結束。

到目前爲止，“藍鰭21”搜尋了90平方公里的海底。但有關當局說，從無人潛艇獲得的聲納數據中沒有發現任何有價值的線索。

美國海軍官員曾經警告說，“藍鰭21”可能需要長達兩個月來搜尋6百平方公里未經測繪的海域。