Inside the RAAF: The cruel sea

The Australian-led air search for MH370

Twice, within a horrifying four-month period, Malaysia Airlines lost two airliners – one claimed by the roiling currents of post-Soviet geopolitics, and the other, it’s believed, by those of the southern Indian Ocean.

Though both aircraft were lost in vastly differing circumstances, physical remains, electronic data and wreckage will subsequently confirm what happened in the last moments of MH17 before its shoot down over Ukraine.