--- title: Malaysia Airlines: Search Discovers Uncharted Shipwreck in Indian Ocean description: The discovery is "of potential interest, but unlikely to be related to MH370" canonical: https://time.com/3857403/australia-malaysia-airlines-search-shipwreck/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-13T16:49:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T07:10:16.807Z article:section: World og:title: Malaysia Airlines Search Discovers Uncharted Shipwreck in Indian Ocean og:description: The discovery is "of potential interest, but unlikely to be related to MH370" og:url: https://time.com/3857403/australia-malaysia-airlines-search-shipwreck/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a47834dcef9d8f2/6987ef92e53aba0d1f4dbce3/489077569-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield is departing Rockingham, Australia for the MH370 search area on May 10, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Malaysia Airlines Search Discovers Uncharted Shipwreck in Indian Ocean twitter:description: The discovery is "of potential interest, but unlikely to be related to MH370" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a47834dcef9d8f2/6987ef92e53aba0d1f4dbce3/489077569-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # MH370 Search Uncovers Shipwreck in Indian Ocean by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News May 13, 2015 4:49 PM CUT  The Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield is departing Rockingham, Australia for the MH370 search area on May 10, 2014. The Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield is departing Rockingham, Australia for the MH370 search area on May 10, 2014.Paul Kane—Getty Images by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News May 13, 2015 4:49 PM CUT The painstaking search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has finally found wreckage on the ocean floor — just not the wreckage it was looking for. The Australian government, which is coordinating [the multi-million-dollar search](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/lester-777-simulator-n317791 "undefined"), announced Wednesday it had found a previously uncharted shipwreck almost 13,000 feet below the surface of the Indian Ocean. Investigators’ hopes were raised when the Fugro Equator, one of the ships tasked with looking for the aircraft, detected “a cluster of small sonar contacts,” according to an update from the Australian government’s Joint Agency Coordination Center. Although analysis found these findings were “of potential interest, but… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/mh370-search-finds-uncharted-shipwreck-indian-ocean-no-sign-jet-n358146?cid=par-time-article%5F20141002 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3857403/australia-malaysia-airlines-search-shipwreck/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3857403/australia-malaysia-airlines-search-shipwreck/"},"headline":"MH370 Search Uncovers Shipwreck in Indian Ocean","datePublished":"2015-05-13T16:49:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:10:16.807Z","description":"The discovery is \"of potential interest, but unlikely to be related to MH370\"","url":"https://time.com/3857403/australia-malaysia-airlines-search-shipwreck/","keywords":["Aviation","Australia","Malaysia","Accidents","Malaysia Airlines","MH370","Indian Ocean"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a47834dcef9d8f2/6987ef92e53aba0d1f4dbce3/489077569-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a47834dcef9d8f2/6987ef92e53aba0d1f4dbce3/489077569-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield is departing Rockingham, Australia for the MH370 search area on May 10, 2014.","caption":"The Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield is departing Rockingham, Australia for the MH370 search area on May 10, 2014.","creditText":"Paul Kane—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/aviation/","name":"Aviation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3857403/australia-malaysia-airlines-search-shipwreck/","name":"MH370 Search Uncovers Shipwreck in Indian Ocean"}}]}] ```