Drift analysis says MH370 likely crashed north of search
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Analysis of a genuine Boeing 777 wing flap has reaffirmed experts' opinion that a missing Malaysian airliner most likely crashed north of an abandoned search area in the Indian Ocean.
The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 ended in January after a deep-sea sonar scan southwest of Australia failed to find any trace of the plane that vanished in 2014. But research has continued in an effort to refine a possible new search.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said in a statement Friday it obtained a wing flap of the same model as the original and studied how that part drifted in the ocean. Previous drift modeling used inexact replicas.
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The new analysis confirmed findings released in December that the airliner had likely crashed north of the searched area.