Australian authorities said a new search area for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will be decided by the end of June, giving private contractors seeking a role in the rebooted operation little time to adjust bids before an official tender closes.
Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre said new analysis of ping transmissions between the missing plane and an Inmarsat PLC satellite had made it clear that "the search zone will move." Although authorities are yet to fix on a precise spot, any new location will remain in the southern Indian Ocean along an arc based on the Boeing Co. 777 jet's final ping transmission on March 8.
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that the search area may move hundreds of miles southwest after analysts looking at the Inmarsat ping signals decided the plane may have traveled faster than previously thought and turned south later.
18/06/14 Daniel Stacey/Wall Street Journal
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Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre said new analysis of ping transmissions between the missing plane and an Inmarsat PLC satellite had made it clear that "the search zone will move." Although authorities are yet to fix on a precise spot, any new location will remain in the southern Indian Ocean along an arc based on the Boeing Co. 777 jet's final ping transmission on March 8.
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that the search area may move hundreds of miles southwest after analysts looking at the Inmarsat ping signals decided the plane may have traveled faster than previously thought and turned south later.
18/06/14 Daniel Stacey/Wall Street Journal
