Most likely from the wreckage of the missing passenger plane. (photo by Australian News Network)
Malaysia Airlines MH370 has been missing for 1258 days, and today the Australian Traffic Safety Authority has released an explosive new report that basically identifies the location of the MH370.
The new report effectively narrowed the search area to just half the size of Melbourne, the Australian News Network reported. It is reported that the most likely location of the "unprecedented precision and determination" aircraft is 92.8 °E and 35.6 °S.
The search area could have shrunk to 5,000 kilometers.
Last year, the most likely location of the MH370 was identified, followed by images of four floating objects on the Indian Ocean by Zhang Nan in the next two weeks, which have been analysed by (GeoScience Australia), the Australian Geological Bureau. They found that 12 objects in the picture could be identified as artificial objects, and 28 more likely artificial objects.
The images were originally taken by the French military satellite in March 2014, but were not used by the authorities at the time, and the Australian Transportation Safety Agency was not involved in the search at that time.
The first model of drift trajectory released late last year identified an area of 25,000 square kilometers, outside the original search area.
The report, released today, improved the modeling of the drifting trajectory and combined several previously discarded satellite images to narrow the potential search area to just 5,000 kilometers.
Malaysia Airlines MH370 "most likely to exist." (Google Pictures)
The objects found in the satellite map are similar to those previously washed up on the coast of Africa, the report said, where they were located near the "seventh arc" of the previous search area, so they could not be ignored.
Still not substantial evidence.
Chester (Darren Chester), Australia`s transport minister, did not rule out a future search for MH370, but he did not make it clear that the latest report would trigger any new action.
"I welcome the report of the Federal Science and Industrial Research Organization, (CSIRO) and the Geological Bureau, but it is important to note that this does not provide new evidence of the specific location of MH370."
On March 8, 2014, the Malaysia Airlines MH370, carrying 239 passengers, suddenly disappeared on its way to Beijing in Kuala Lumpur. The goverment of China, Australia and Malaysia spent 1.6 billion years searching for three years, in addition to a few pieces of debris. On January 17, after a failed search of one hundred and twenty thousand square kilometers of underwater areas in the southern Indian Ocean, officials suspended the search for Malaysia Airlines` MH370 until substantial evidence emerged.
As a result, Malaysia Airlines MH370 has become the only accident in the history of an airliner that has failed to determine the exact location of the crash, and is also the most costly accident in the history of the plane.
