page_title: Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
section_title: Calculated most likely location of impact
hierarchical_section_title: Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 / 2018 Ocean Infinity search / Calculated most likely location of impact
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the search area for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, with proposed 2018 search zone added to original ATSB image.
context_page_description: The disappearance on 8 March 2014 of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a scheduled international passenger flight from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing Capital International Airport, prompted a large, multinational search in Asia and the southern Indian Ocean that became the most expensive search in aviation history. Analysis of communications between the aircraft and Inmarsat by multiple agencies has concluded that the flight ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
  An analysis of possible flight paths was conducted, identifying a 60,000 km² primary search-area, approximately 2,000 km west of Perth, Western Australia, which takes six days for vessels to reach from Fremantle Harbour, near Perth. The underwater search of this area began on 5 October 2014 at a cost of A$60 million. With no significant delays, the search of the priority search-area was to be completed around May 2015. On 29 July 2015, a piece of marine debris, later confirmed to be a flaperon from Flight 370, was found on Réunion Island.
context_section_description: Simulated drift trajectories of a large number of such flaperons were mapped in the analysis, based on them all having a source location within the southern end of the "remaining high probability area" identified in the ATSB First Principles Review (FPR) report. This area extended approximately 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi) each side along the 7th arc from around 32.5°S in the north to around 36°S in the south. The modelled trajectories indicated that a source location of around 35°S was consistent both with the maximum probability that no debris would be found on Western Australia, and good consistency that debris would appear at Reunion Island from July 2015.
  The reports concluded that the most likely location of MH370 is within the southern end of the 25,000 square kilometres (9,700 sq mi) area identified in the ATSB FPR, near 35°S.
caption: MH370 7th arc search area, with focus of 2018 search noted
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