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Resources
Official papers, films, Wikipedia and its citations, programmes, claims and open questions.
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Australia leads the southern search
March 2014 onward
The Joint Agency Coordination Centre coordinates a vast surface search, then an underwater search, in the southern Indian Ocean.
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.
JORN not tasked the night of 7–8 March 2014
Australian over-the-horizon radar · peacetime status
Wikipedia and Australian statements: Jindalee Operational Radar Network was not operational / not tasked that night. Absence of a JORN track is not a northern-path proof.
DSTG Bayesian flight-path analysis
Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia
A probabilistic reconstruction of MH370’s path from SATCOM metadata. Output is a distribution along the 7th arc, not a pin in the map.
Joint Agency Coordination Centre
Australia · southern Indian Ocean search coordination
Stood up to run the multinational southern search after the SATCOM pivot.
The Operational Search for MH370
ATSB AE-2014-054 · final search report 2017
Australia’s account of how the southern Indian Ocean search box was drawn, refined, and exhausted over 120,000 km². Primary technical home of the 7th-arc argument used in the field.
7th arc (schematic locus)
00:19 UTC range ring from Inmarsat I-3
Search geometry, not a wreck coordinate. Official and Ocean Infinity boxes are arguments about a segment of this arc.
DSTG
Defence Science and Technology Group · Bayesian path analysis
Produced the posterior along the 7th arc used to site the official underwater box.
Malaysia announces the southern Indian Ocean track
15 March 2014
Prime Minister Najib Razak states that new satellite data show MH370 flew for hours into the southern Indian Ocean. The search pivots.
Malaysian summary of possible MH370 debris
ICAO Annex 13 Team · updated 2017
Itemised list of wreckage recovered on western Indian Ocean coasts, with confirmation classes: confirmed, almost certain, highly likely, likely.
Southern Indian Ocean
Search theatre after 15 March 2014
The ocean in which official and private underwater campaigns have been conducted.
The 7th arc
00:19:29 UTC aircraft-initiated log-on
BTO range ring at the last transmission. Official and Ocean Infinity boxes are arguments about a segment of this arc plus a stand-off. It is not a crash pin.
The Debris Swarm
Jeff Wise · Finding MH370 S1E19 · 15 November 2024 · 39:26
After six months with only the Réunion flaperon, a cluster of western-Indian-Ocean pieces appears in 2016. CSIRO reverse-drift and barnacle work are the scientific spine; the swarm’s timing is the puzzle Wise keeps open.
Wikipedia — search for MH370
South China Sea to Ocean Infinity 2027
Most expensive aviation search. Surface 4.5 million km² in 2014; ATSB 120,000 km² underwater; Ocean Infinity 112,000 km² in 2018 and a 15,000 km² 2025–27 box. No main wreckage.
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.
Official underwater search suspended
17 January 2017
Australia, Malaysia and China suspend the ATSB-led search after 120,000 km² of seabed have been covered with no wreckage.
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