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TimelineConfirmed1 Oct 2014 00:00 UTC

Bathymetry and underwater search begin

October 2014

Fugro vessels and partners begin wide-area bathymetric mapping and towed-sonar search of a defined 7th-arc corridor.

LocationConfirmed

ATSB underwater search box 2014–2017

~120,000 km² · suspended 17 January 2017

High-resolution seabed search along a refined 7th-arc corridor. No wreckage.

TimelineConfirmed17 Jan 2017 00:00 UTC

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.

TimelineConfirmed17 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC

Ocean Infinity 2018 no-find-no-fee search

January–May 2018

Ocean Infinity’s Seabed Constructor searches on the order of 112,000 km² along a revised 7th-arc corridor. No wreckage.

TimelineConfirmed17 Mar 2014 00:00 UTC

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.

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.

DocumentProbable16 Mar 2024

A NEW Trace! The FULL MH370 Story, so Far

Mentour Pilot · Petter Hörnfeldt · 16 March 2024 · 56:06

Type-rated 737 captain’s reconstruction from the 2018 report, Inmarsat BTO/BFO, and the Blelly–Marchand end-of-flight paper. Argues the transponder was selected off in two steps, not failed as a unit. Closes with a WSPR lead and a request to restart the search.

PersonConfirmed

Grace Nathan

Next-of-kin advocate · Voice370

Public voice for families pressing Malaysia to keep searching. Welcomed the 2025 Ocean Infinity resumption.

DocumentProbable1 Mar 2024

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.

OrganisationConfirmed

Joint Agency Coordination Centre

Australia · southern Indian Ocean search coordination

Stood up to run the multinational southern search after the SATCOM pivot.

LocationConfirmed

Ocean Infinity 2018 corridor

~112,000 km² along a revised arc

No-find-no-fee AUV search from Seabed Constructor. No wreckage.

DocumentOfficial finding3 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC

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.

TimelineOfficial finding5 Apr 2014 00:00 UTC

Towed-pinger detections — not MH370

April 2014

Acoustic detections in the search area are investigated with an AUV. No wreckage is found. The detections are not attributed to 9M-MRO’s recorders.

DocumentProbable18 Sep 2026

Wikipedia — Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

en.wikipedia.org · living page · read 18 September 2026

Crowd-maintained digest of the public case: 239 dead, 9M-MRO, 8 March 2014, KUL–PEK, cause undetermined. Useful as a citation map into ATSB, MOT, Inmarsat and Ocean Infinity. Not a primary source.

OrganisationConfirmed

DSTG

Defence Science and Technology Group · Bayesian path analysis

Produced the posterior along the 7th arc used to site the official underwater box.

LocationConfirmed

Southern Indian Ocean

Search theatre after 15 March 2014

The ocean in which official and private underwater campaigns have been conducted.

OrganisationConfirmed

Voice370 / next-of-kin advocates

Family groups pressing for continued search and disclosure

Public advocates including Grace Nathan have argued for resumed underwater search and timely family briefings.

DocumentProbable15 Sep 2026

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.

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