The Australian agency responsible for the Indian Ocean search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 reiterated its belief Thursday that the missing Boeing 777 would be found in the southern Indian Ocean.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, working in conjunction with a team of international investigators, said further analysis of the satellite data available on the flight's path "confirms that MH370 will be found in close proximity" to a specific corridor identified as the "7th arc".
In a statement released Thursday, the ATSB said at the time Flight 370 reached this specific arc, "the aircraft is considered to have exhausted its fuel and to have been descending."
It was not immediately clear where the 7th arc, shown below on a map provided by the ATSB, lays in relation to the area already searched already by a U.S. Navy robotic submarine. The Bluefin 21 sub concluded its fruitless search of a swath of the Indian Ocean floor that investigators had believed was the most likely crash zone at the end of May.
A map released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau on June 5, 2014, shows the 7th arc within the Indian Ocean, the area where the ATSB says missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will be found.
Australian officials then said they hoped to begin a much wider search, scanning some 21,600 square miles with more advanced sonar equipment, in August.
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