Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot has said that an underwater search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will resume off Western Australia in about a month. Mr. Abbott said that he is willing to continue the fight to find answers because he deeply feels for the Australian families who lost their loves ones.

According to him, it was possible for the private contractor commissioned to hunt for the plane to find it, if the search operation was conducted within the search arc. "They are now going to search the entire probable impact zone which is, from memory, something like 60,000 square kilometres of the ocean floor, off the coast of Western Australia", he said, adding that they will begin the proceeding in the next month or so, but the search could be extended up to a year.

Mr. Abbott said that there is a long way to go before giving up the search for traces of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared on March 8 after it took off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Six Australians were on board when it lost contact.

Australia signed a contract worth more than 50 million with Dutch company Fugro earlier this month to use two vessels towing submerged vehicles. This will allow looking deeply into the search area, which is equivalent to the size of Tasmania.

No sign of flight MH370 has been found ever since it vanished inexplicably. All 239 people onboard have been presumed dead and it is believed that the plane probably tumbled into the southern Indian Ocean far off the west coast of Australia. However, nothing has been found after a massive air and sea search.

Sonar equipment and video cameras will be used for the sea floor search to locate and identify any debris of the plane. Abbott has reiterated that Australia is determined to find the plane and figure out what happened with the plane.