Relatives of those on the missing plane have had no comfort after searches have so far failed to come up with a single piece of debris. Photo / AP
An international panel of experts will re-examine all data gathered in the nearly two-month hunt for the missing Malaysian jet to ensure search crews who have been scouring a desolate patch of ocean have been looking in the right place.
Senior officials from Malaysia, Australia and China met in Canberra
to hash out the details of the next steps in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which will focus on an expanded patch of sea floor of the Indian Ocean off Western Australia. The area became the focus of the hunt after analysts calculated the plane's likeliest flight path based on satellite and radar data.
Starting tomorrow, that data will be reanalysed and combined with all information gathered thus far in the search, which has not turned up a single piece of debris.
Investigators have been stymied by a lack of hard data since the plane vanished on March 8 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
A week-long search for surface debris was called off last week after officials determined any wreckage that might have been floating was likely to have sunk.
