Canberra: Experts hunting for the missing Malaysian airliner are attempting to define a new search area by studying where in the Indian Ocean the first piece of wreckage recovered from the lost Boeing 777 a wing flap most likely drifted from after the disaster that claimed 239 lives, the new leader of the search said. Officials are planning the next phase of the deep-sea sonar search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in case the current two-year search of 120,000 square kilometers (46,000 square miles) turns up nothing, Australian Transport Safety Bureau chief commissioner Greg Hood said.
However, a new search would require a new funding commitment, with Malaysia, Australia and China agreeing in July that the $160 million search will be suspended once the current vast expanse southwest of Australia is exhausted unless new evidence emerges that would pinpoint a specific location.
“If it is not in the area which we defined, it’s going to be somewhere else in the near vicinity,” Hood said in an interview this week. Further analysis of the wing fragment known as a flaperon found on Reunion Island off the African coast in July last year 15 months after the plane went missing will hopefully help narrow a possible next search area outside the current boundary.
Six replicas of the flaperon will be sent to Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization’s oceanography department in the island state of Tasmania where scientists will determine whether wind or currents determine how they drift, Hood said. This will enable more accurate drift modeling than is currently available.
19/08/16 AP/Indian Express
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However, a new search would require a new funding commitment, with Malaysia, Australia and China agreeing in July that the $160 million search will be suspended once the current vast expanse southwest of Australia is exhausted unless new evidence emerges that would pinpoint a specific location.
“If it is not in the area which we defined, it’s going to be somewhere else in the near vicinity,” Hood said in an interview this week. Further analysis of the wing fragment known as a flaperon found on Reunion Island off the African coast in July last year 15 months after the plane went missing will hopefully help narrow a possible next search area outside the current boundary.
Six replicas of the flaperon will be sent to Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization’s oceanography department in the island state of Tasmania where scientists will determine whether wind or currents determine how they drift, Hood said. This will enable more accurate drift modeling than is currently available.
19/08/16 AP/Indian Express
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