MH370 search area recommended to be extended

Australian air safety investigators leading the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 now believe that the plane is not in the current search area in the southern Indian Ocean. “There is a high degree of confidence that the previously identified underwater area searched to date does not contain the missing aircraft,” the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said. The ATSB said “Given the elimination of this area, the experts identified an area of approximately 25,000 sq km as the area with the highest probability of containing the wreckage of the aircraft. The experts concluded that, if this area were to be searched, prospective areas for locating the aircraft wreckage…would be exhausted.” Australia’s Transport minister Darren Chester said the search is unlikely to be extended. <br/>