Leading Australian Scientists Have Calculated the Crash Site of MH370 'With Unprecedented Precision and Certainty'

The crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is a lonely spot in the southern Indian Ocean, 1,250 miles due west of the southern tip of Western Australia and 2,000 miles south-south-west of Kuala Lumpur - the place where the 239 people on board were last seen alive, reported the Independent.co.uk.

Seven months to the day after the search for the doomed Boeing 777 was officially called off, leading Australian scientists have calculated "with unprecedented precision and certainty" that the plane crashed at a point 35.6 degrees south of the Equator and 92.8 degrees east of Greenwich.

On 8 March 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 departed from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew. Its disappearance remains the greatest unsolved mystery in aviation. Despite a massive international search effort that lasted almost three years, the only traces of the plane that have turned up are fragments of wreckage washed up on the western shores of the Indian Ocean.

When the transport ministers of Malaysia, Australia and China announced the abandonment of the hunt on 20 January 2017, they said the search had failed "despite every effort using the best science available, cutting edge technology, as well as modelling and advice from highly skilled professionals who are the best in their field."

But Geoscience Australia researchers re-examined four pictures that were taken by the Airbus Pleiades 1A satellite shortly after start of the hunt, and identified 12 significant pieces of "probably man-made" debris that could be from the lost aircraft - as well as 28 that were "possibly man-made".

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) conducted tests using a flaperon - the tailplane component which washed...