OrganisationConfirmed
Australian Transport Safety Bureau
Lead of the 2014–2017 southern Indian Ocean search
Drew and exhausted the 120,000 km² underwater box. Operational-search report is the engineering baseline for later Ocean Infinity boxes.
ATSB, with JACC, led the southern search after Malaysia’s 15 March 2014 announcement. Surface search, rejected April 2014 pinger detections, then underwater search to January 2017. AE-2014-054 remains the SATCOM-geometry reference.
Sources
- ATSB AE-2014-054
Related
DocumentOfficial finding3 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
The Operational Search for MH370
ATSB AE-2014-054 · final search report 2017
OrganisationConfirmed
Joint Agency Coordination Centre
Australia · southern Indian Ocean search coordination
OrganisationConfirmed
DSTG
Defence Science and Technology Group · Bayesian path analysis
OrganisationConfirmed
CSIRO
Debris-drift modelling
TimelineConfirmed17 Mar 2014 00:00 UTC
Australia leads the southern search
March 2014 onward
TimelineOfficial finding5 Apr 2014 00:00 UTC
Towed-pinger detections — not MH370
April 2014
TimelineConfirmed1 Oct 2014 00:00 UTC
Bathymetry and underwater search begin
October 2014
TimelineConfirmed17 Jan 2017 00:00 UTC
Official underwater search suspended
17 January 2017
LocationConfirmed
ATSB underwater search box 2014–2017
~120,000 km² · suspended 17 January 2017
DocumentProbable1 Mar 2024
Inside the Investigation: The Search for MH370 Truth
7NEWS · Peter Foley, Joe Hattley