Missing MH370 likely north of search area

Experts leading the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have said the vanished Boeing 777 is highly unlikely to be in the current search area and may instead be in a region farther north

Mar 8, 2014: Flight MH370 vanishesen route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing,with 239 people on board

No trace of airliner has been found in southern Indian Ocean after more than two-year search

Probable crash site located along“seventh arc”, based on analysis of series of exchanges between aircraft and satellite network after loss of radar contact 

Last radar contact with flight MH370

Kuala Lumpur

MALAYSIA

INDIAN OCEAN

Perth

AUSTRALIA

2,000km 1,250 miles

AREA SEARCHED TO DATE

Search due to be suspended Jan / Feb 2017

Underwater search using side scanor synthetic aperture sonar

Priority search area (60,000 sq km)

INDIAN OCEAN

Seventh arc

500km 300 miles

Diamantina Trench (up to 7.3km deep)

Broken Ridge Plateau

New recommended search area
25,000 sq km of ocean identified as most likely location of crash site,based on ocean drift analysis of debris from plane that has washed ashore on beaches throughout Indian Ocean

Source: Australian Transport Safety Bureau

Picture: Google Earth