It's been missing since early March, stil lnot found and the search has been called off for now. Its a sad sad sadddd story!
Huge amounts of money and effort wasted while trying to find the missing plane. I hope that the family members of the victims will at least be able to get the compensation and insurance cover now.
Personally I hope that the research and data gained from it is used for something useful.
Basically when searching for the plane they are examining undersea areas previously unexplored having that data would be useful for society.