Since Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 went missing last year, there has been no recovery of the plane nor human remains, CBS News reports.

The Boeing 777 carried 239 passengers and crew onboard, and no one knows where it went off the radar. Nearly 26 different countries chipped in to deploy 82 aircraft and 84 ships to search for the missing MA 370.

Almost 1.8 million square miles of the southern Indian Ocean was scanned, but the search yielded no results.

"The technology exists," Dr. Joe Kolly with the National Transportation Safety Board said, urging the aircraft industry to do more to track planes so that they could be found quickly.

"What we need are the standards and the requirements so that aircraft, airlines can now employ this so that we can keep track of these aircraft and know in the case of an emergency where they are."

It took nearly two years and $40 million to find the black box recorders from missing Air France Flight 447 in 2009.

The Air France flight brought light to the lack of proper aircraft tracking.

The case of Malaysian Airlines 370 proves little changes have been made to introduce new technology or set requirements on aircraft tracking since then.

"We've had a couple incidents now, and the whole world is behind trying to improve," Kolly said.

The battery for the locator beacon on the data recording black box had expired long before the flight went missing, USA Today reports.

At least 30 relatives of the Chinese passengers on that flight gathered at a Beijing temple with signs and shirts that read, "Search on," and demanded the truth.

Relatives believe Malaysian authorities are concealing information.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose agencies are leading the hunt, vows to continue the search "as long as there are reasonable leads."

Traces of the missing plane have yet to be found.