After 2 years, experts say they were probably looking for MH370 at wrong place

December 20, 2016 22:30

Teams searching for missing aircraft Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have very likely been looking in the wrong place, a new Australian government report confirmed.

Given the high confidence in the search undertaken to date, the experts agreed that the previously defined (search) area is unlikely to contain the missing aircraft, a spokesman for the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said in a statement.

The report recommended that, based on new analysis, a new area to the northeast of the current search area should be searched, approximately 25,000 square kilometres.

It said there was a more than 95 per cent likelihood the plane was not in the vast area --the 110,000 square kilometres -- which had already been searched.

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