Regional Round-Up
MH370 search shifts south
July 1st 2014
At press time, the chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Martin Dolan, was expected to announce the position of a new 60,000 square kilometer area in the southern Indian Ocean where the search for missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 will be focused. Read More »
Dolan said he expected the search site to be several hundred kilometres south of the 850 square kilometer section of the southern ocean where an underwater drone had searched and failed to find any trace of the aircraft.
Private contractors will have 300 days from August this year to find MH370, using sonar equipment that can scan the seabed to a depth of seven kilometres.
