southern Indian Ocean News

‘All at Sea:’ Australia’s Search for MH370 Wreckage Under Scrutiny

Nearly a year after embarking on a multi-million dollar quest to solve one of aviation’s greatest unsolved mysteries, authorities and search teams are being criticized over their approach to finding Flight MH370 in the remote southern Indian Ocean. The Australian-led …

Undersea Search for Missing Malaysian Airliner Refined

The massive undersea search area for a missing Malaysian airliner in the southern Indian Ocean could be extended farther south based on new satellite analysis, only weeks before the multimillion dollar, yearlong sonar hunt for wreckage is due to begin, …

Deep-Sea Search for MH370 Was in Wrong Place, Australia Says

A deep-sea hunt for the missing Malaysian passenger jet has focused on the wrong place for nearly two months, officials said today, after a survey of a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean found no trace of wreckage. A zone …

Analysis of Possible Plane Debris Slowed by Vast Size of Satellite Data

Delays in identifying satellite images that may show debris of a missing Malaysian plane in the southern Indian Ocean were due to the vast amounts of data that needed to be analyzed, Australian authorities and the U.S. company that collected …