(Bloomberg) -- Paul Kennedy couldn’t believe what his sonarshowed him March 7: what looked like a debris field on the floor ofthe Indian Ocean. It’s Flight 370, he thought -- the MalaysiaAirlines plane that had vanished 364 days earlier.

A camera was raced down to confirm that the aircraft’s wreckagehad been found. Satellite Internet on the search vessels was cutoff to prevent the news from leaking.

“We thought, ‘We might have solved this,’” Kennedy, a deputymanaging director at search operators Fugro NV, said in aninterview. “It was the right size, the right shape.”

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