All together: Multinational air-crew and aircraft were involved in operation Southern Indian Ocean
So far not a single piece of debris, stretch of oil, or a clue of any kind has been found to pinpoint the location of the plane.
There have been 'pings' that might have come from the aircraft's two black boxes and experts have made their calculations from satellite data, but if the jet is at the bottom of the ocean its whereabouts have remained a mystery.
Eight nations have taken part in the search, either physically or using technical know-how but despite a number of hopeful sightings, the personnel who posed for Tuesday's photo have ended their relentless operation with nothing to show for it.
No results: Not a single piece of debris, stretch of oil, or a clue of any kind has been found to pinpoint the location of the Boeing 777
Finished: Japanese officials and members of Japanese and Australian aircrews, who participated in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370, pose for a photo on the tarmac at the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base Pearce, located north of Perth
With no result, they now have only an underwater search - with no clues to pinpoint the correct area - to rely on. But first, they have to hear when that search will even begin.
The news of the scaled back search comes as the Chinese families of passengers and crew were played a recording of the finale exchange between the airplane's crew and ground control for the first time.
The families listened to the audio from the plane's cockpit during a public conference in Beijing on Tuesday, more than 50 days after the plane disappeared.
In the audio, a radar controller from the airport in Kuala Lumpur says: 'Malaysia three seven zero contact Ho Chi Min 120.9, good night.'
A male voice, believed to be a male crew member, replies: 'Good night Malaysian three seven zero.'
Officials explained that MH370 crew members did not respond to further requests to contact ground control.
Yesterday an Australian company said it had located the wreckage of a commercial airliner lying on the ocean floor in the Bay of Bengal - an area located in the northern tip of the original search area, but thousands of miles from where authorities are currently focused.
Tech firm GeoResonance claims its sensor technology has found the wreckage of a plane in the Bay of Bengal, 118 miles south of Bangladesh.
The company said images taken of the same spot five days earlier showed it had appeared between the 5th and 10th of March 2014. The plane disappeared on March 8.
However, these claims have now been dismissed by search coordinators.
The Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC), which is managing the multinational search for the missing plane, said it continued to believe that the plane came down in the southern Indian Ocean off Australia
And it explained that the location in the GeoResonance report was not within the search arc that it has created from satellite information and other data to determine the missing aircraft's location.
'The joint international team is satisfied that the final resting place of the missing aircraft is in the southerly portion of the search arc,' it said, The Telegraph reports.
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