SYDNEY: The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was called off on Tuesday without any success with regards to parts of the plane being found. The plane had vanished in 2014 with 239 people on board. After the crash, the location of flight MH370 had turned into one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries since the plane disappeared en route to Beijing from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. Authorities working to find the plane debris said in a statement, “Despite every effort using the best science available, the search teams have not been able to locate the aircraft.” Authorities said that the last search vessel left the area on Tuesday, after scouring the 120,000 square kilometres area of the Indian Ocean sea floor that had been the focus of three years of search. Malaysia, Australia and China agreed in July to suspend the $145 million search if the plane was not found. Last month, Australia dismissed an investigator’s recommendation to shift the search further north, saying that no new evidence had emerged to support the move. Since the crash occurred, there have been competing theories over how many pilots were in control when the plane crashed or whether it was hijacked. Investigators believed someone may have deliberately switched off the plane´s transponder before diverting it thousands of miles over the Indian Ocean. A support group called Voice 370 said in a statement that continuing the search was a duty owed to the public in the interest of aviation safety. Grace Nathan, whose mother, Anne Daisy, was on the missing plane said the governments should consider the recommendation to search an additional 25,000 square kilometres. The only confirmed traces of the plane yet have been three pieces of debris found washed up on the island country Mauritius, the French island Reunion and an island off the coast of Tanzania. As many as 30 other pieces of wreckage found there and at beaches in Mozambique, Tanzania and South Africa are suspected to have come from the plane. The engineering group leading the search, Fugro, has raised the prospect that someone could have glided the aircraft outside of the defined search zone to explain why it had not been found.