Inside the Investigation: The Search for MH370 Truth
7NEWS · Peter Foley, Joe Hattley
Former lead search officials on internal protocol, sonar-mapping mistakes, and why a debris field can still be found. An Australian operational view, not a cockpit narrative.
Peter Foley (ATSB search director) and Joe Hattley speak to the underwater campaign’s method: bathymetry first, then towed and autonomous sonar, then the decision to suspend in 2017 after ~120,000 km². The useful content is operational — what “we searched here” actually means, how false contacts are discarded, and why empty boxes still constrain the next box. It does not independently re-derive BFO. Pair with the ATSB AE-2014-054 operational-search report.
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The Operational Search for MH370
ATSB AE-2014-054 · final search report 2017
Australian Transport Safety Bureau
Lead of the 2014–2017 southern Indian Ocean search
Official underwater search suspended
17 January 2017