Could MH370 Still Be Located?
Joe Cortez January 06, 2017
Scientists suggest the aircraft could be found, but requires a large investment.
Scientists looking for the still-missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 say the aircraft could still be found, but would require a major investment from international search and rescue parties. The Daily Beast reports the current search for the lost Boeing 777 may soon come to an end, without plans to pinpoint where the aircraft went down.
With pieces of the aircraft found in 2015, search teams have spent the past year looking in a 46,000-square mile area of the Indian Ocean, where the aircraft was believed to have gone down. However, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) now believes the aircraft may have never come to an end in that area.
During this time, scientists have run simulations on how the debris could have migrated across the ocean from a possible crash site to where they were found on Reunion Island. The research team at CSIRO created analogs of the debris and launched them into the ocean to study their movement across the currents. With the information collected from the analogs and studies of the currents between when the aircraft came down and when debris was found, the scientists looking into the crash now believe the aircraft could have ended its journey between latitudes 32 and 36 degrees south.
Although the research offers a new look into the fate of the doomed aircraft, it may not ultimately aid in the search for the remains of MH370. Officials at the ATSB suggest without a more accurate estimate of where the aircraft came down, searches for the flight could come to an end.
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