An Australian search coordinator disclosed recently that their team is now working on the latest mapping technology that would hopefully help them locate the wreckage of flight MH370.
It has been almost eight months since Malaysia Airlines's flight MH370 disappeared mysteriously over South China Sea barely an hour after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur International Airport on its way to Beijing.
Initially, the plane was believed to have plunged into the waters of South China Sea, between Vietnam and Malaysia. This theory arose after the ground controllers last heard about the plane. However, after fruitless months of search over a vast swathe of ocean, the teams have found another theory that the plane may have made a U-turn for unknown reasons and headed towards Andaman Sea and onto the vast Indian Ocean.
Peter Foley, the search coordinator, is optimistic that the new model that they're currently working would help them scour a much wider area of the southern Indian Ocean, where the plane was believed to have plunged based on a model they earlier proposed.
There have been a lot of reports about debris being washed ashore along Western Australian coasts, but none so far was positive.
Five teams are currently scouring the 600 KM x 90 KM area in the southern Indian Ocean close to the Western Australian coasts. They include Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation, the National Transportation Safety Board of the United States, Thales of France and Boeing Co., the manufacturer of the ill-fated aircraft.
They all agreed that the final resting place of the aircraft lies near the '7th arc' a curve that stretches, more or less, 1,000 KM off Exmouth, Western Australia.
So far, the teams have scoured over 6,900 sq km of the ocean floor since the search shifted to the Indian Ocean.
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