Search for Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Drastically Narrows [View all]
Source: ABC News
American and British aviation officials have refined satellite signals from the missing Malaysia Flight 370 and created two possible flight paths that dramatically narrow the scope of the search to an area off the coast of Australia.
The two possible paths have the plane heading toward the South Pole and ending, experts believe, off of Australia.
U.S. officials familiar with the investigation tell ABC News that the hourly satellite pings from the jet had yielded far more clues than expected, enabling the focus of the search to be cut in half - from an area roughly the size of Texas to that of Arizona.
Calculations by UK and US experts had now been handed over to the Australians to help with the search.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/search-missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-370-drastically-narrows/story?id=22975958
Well, here's another news report to add to the confusion. This potential flight path doesn't seem to make any sense, but at least it's consistent with several reports from fishermen who claim to have seen the plane flying in a southerly direction.
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