An underwater search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight could be completed in a week.

A deep-sea drone's been scanning a part of the southern Indian Ocean, where pings thought to be from the plane's flight recorders were detected earlier this month. However, the flight recorder is only expected to transmit signals for around a month before its batteries run out.

The plane went missing on the 8th of March with 239 people on board.

Acting Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein says search teams remain determined to find the wreckage, despite the search becoming more difficult every day: