With less than 10,000 square kilometers left in the search area for the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, hopes of finding the plane are fading.

Senior officials announced Friday that the international effort to locate MH370 will be suspended and rethought if the missing plane isn't found in the remaining search area.

"This does not mean we have given up on looking for MH370," Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said at a press conference Friday.

So far, they've scoured about 110,000 square feet in a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean, hunting for traces of the passenger jet and the 239 people it was carrying. The multi-million dollar effort consisted of several ships with special equipment scanning sections of the sea floor.

Liow said that cost was not a factor in the decision to suspend the hunt.

The current search is expected to end sometime between October and December, depending on weather and sea conditions, officials said.

When asked if they had been looking in the wrong area, Liow said: "We are looking in the right area based on the experts' view. Based on that, we searched the area."

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So sad.

They did find debris on Réunion and Mozambique, so at least there's something. But it doesn't look like we'll ever find out what happened on that flight

wait I thought they found parts of it already?

they were still searching for that plane?

Can't believe these past two years have yielded so little.

Yes, but very very little. They found a wing flapper, a Chinese water bottle and an Indonesian cleaning product on Reunion Island. They also found part of the right stabiliser and wing in Mozambique, an engine part + part of the plane's interior in South Africa. The most recent finding was another wing flapper in June of this year. It sounds like quite a few pieces, but in reality it's virtually nothing.