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The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is leading a sea floor mapping and underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean. Geoscience Australia is providing advice, expertise and support to the ATSB.
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Recent refinement to the analysis has given greater certainty about when the aircraft turned south into the Indian Ocean and has produced a better understanding of the parameters within which the satellite ground station was operating during the last flight of MH370. The latest analyses indicates that the underwater search should be prioritised further south within the wide search area for the next phase of the search. The ATSB has published MH370 – Flight path analysis update to supplement the previously released report MH370 – Definition of Underwater Search Areas, which describes the continuing work.
Chinese (Mandarin) Version : MH370 Flight Path Analysis Update (PDF)
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Executive summary
On 08 March 2014, flight MH370, a Boeing 777-200ER registered 9M-MRO, lost contact with Air Traffic Control during a transition of airspace between Malaysia and Vietnam. An analysis of radar data and subsequent satellite communication (SATCOM) system signalling messages placed the aircraft in the Australian search and rescue zone on an arc in the southern part of the Indian Ocean. This arc
was considered to be the location where the aircraft’s fuel was exhausted.
