Lost plane hunt won’t shift focus
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MALAYSIA yesterday said the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will not be shifted after the discoveries of five pieces of debris in the western Indian Ocean.
The government this week confirmed that the last two pieces, found in South Africa and Rodrigues Island off Mauritius, are “almost certainly” from the Boeing 777 that disappeared mysteriously more than two years ago.
Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said the discoveries aligned with the modeling pattern established by experts of where debris would drift from a crash in the southern Indian Ocean. He said the search being conducted over a 120,000 square kilometer area west of Australia will be completed before authorities decide whether to further extend the hunt.
“We won’t shift the search area. From the debris found, it actually confirms that our search area is the right area looking at the drift pattern,” Liow said.
The area is the “most probable” crash site and authorities have so far covered more than 105,000 square kilometers, he said.
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