Australia working on model to find MH370 wreckage

Australia says it is working on new expanded modelling to predict where wreckage from the missing jetliner may come ashore. Peter Foley, who is in charge of coordinating the search effort, updated the public on Wednesday.  [Special coverage]

"In terms of where we are searching, we are very confident with the satellite comms models that we've worked and reworked and we've had very expert people arriving at where we are searching. So we are very confident the aircraft is on the 7th arc and we are covering a big enough area so that we cover every possibility, every practical possibility as far as the location of the aircraft is concerned, within reason," Foley says.

Foley said searchers had been receiving reports at least once a week of debris washing up on the Australian coastline. But none have so far been identified as part of the missing aircraft, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March the eighth. 239 people, including 154 Chinese, were on board. Initial analysis suggested the first debris from the plane could come ashore on Indonesia's Western Sumatra.

The search for the missing flight MH370 jetliner is now scanning a zone some 1,800 kilometers west of the Australian coast. It resumed in early October after efforts were suspended for four months. Three ships are currently involved in the search effort. Experts now say they believe the final resting place of the Boeing 777 is near the so-called 7th arc, which stretches from about 1,000 kilometers off the Western Australian town of Exmouth to a point about 2,000 kilometers south-west of Perth. The area is located in the north of the two areas previously listed as high priority by an October report. Over 6,900 square kilometers of the seafloor have been searched so far, without any sign of the missing plane.