6月6日，即搜寻开启5天后，在海洋表面发现了第一个飞机残骸。在将近两年后的2011年4月，大块残骸才被发现，自此一个月后放在驾驶员座舱的录音机及飞行数据记录器“黑匣子”才被找到。这时调查者才能够完整地分析出飞机失事原因。

The problem was that the jet crashed, the BEA final report says, "in a region with rugged terrain and whose ocean bed presents great variation in depth over short distances of between 700 metres and 4,300 metres."

法国民航安全调查分析局的最终报告称，问题在于飞机失事位置为“一个地形崎岖、海底短距离间深度差异巨大的区域（700到4300米深不等）”。

In other words, it was a remarkably difficult area to search. Most of the wreckage was eventually found 6.5 nautical miles from the last known position, on a plain 3,900 meters below the surface.

换句话说，这是一个非常难以搜寻的地方。大部分残骸最终在离有记录地区6.5海里的地方被找到，为距海平面3900米的海底平原。

So far, no wreckage from the Malaysia plane has been found, though a Vietnamese air force aircraft located two large oil slicks that may be from the missing plane. The aerial search will resume once the sun has risen. Fortunately, the Gulf of Thailand is just 250 feet deep at its deepest point, according to airline analyst Robert W. Mann, Jr., so the search should be much shorter than the Air France one.

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