Malaysia announces the southern Indian Ocean track

On 15 March 2014 Malaysia publicly stated that Inmarsat analysis showed the aircraft had continued to fly for more than six hours after radar contact, and that the southern corridor was the focus. The Joint Agency Coordination Centre in Australia took on the southern Indian Ocean surface search. Northern-corridor possibilities were progressively disfavoured by BFO sign. Debris, when it finally appeared in 2015, washed up on western Indian Ocean shores — consistent with a southern crash and east-to-west drift, not a South China Sea crash.