Officials Searching for MH370 Lose 2nd Sonar Device in 3 Months

The airliner disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239 passengers and crew on board

Experts hunting for traces of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 lost a state-of-the-art sonar device for the second time in three months, NBC News reported.

The "towfish,"an underwater sonar device dragged behind ships that scans the seabed for debris, was attached to an 1,800-pound weight to keep it floating from the surface when "the failure of a tow cable connector resulted in the loss," the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) said in statement Wednesday.

A remote-controlled submersible was flown in from the United States to attempt to recover the yellow, torpedo-shaped unit from the seabed.

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