The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has issued a report on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared in 2014.
Entitled MH370 – First Principles Review, the report noted that an underwater area located north of the Indian Ocean that has so far been unsearched could contain debris from the aircraft.
Presented by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the debris drift modelling results also suggested that the missing aircraft could be located north of the current indicative underwater search area.
ATSB also stated that analysis of satellite communications with the aircraft and wrecked debris helped the agency to agree on the new area.
ATSB said in a statement: “The experts also agreed that CSIRO’s debris drift modelling results present strong evidence that the aircraft is most likely to be located to the north of the current indicative underwater search area.
“When considered together with updated flight path modelling, the experts concluded that an unsearched area between latitudes 33°S and 36°S along the seventh arc of approximately 25,000km², has the highest probability of containing the wreckage of the aircraft.”
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By GlobalDataATSB’s new report is based on the recommendations of a meeting held last month, which was attended by experts in data processing, satellite communications, accident investigation, aircraft performance, flight operations, sonar data, acoustic data and oceanography.
Malaysia and China are working together to find the missing aircraft.
A search to identify the aircraft is currently underway in a 120,000km² area west of Australia and is scheduled to be completed by next month.
However, investigators have not found any sign of the missing plane, reported Reuters.
