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| New missing Malaysian plane MH370 search area announced | |
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| A new search area for the missing Malaysian plane has been announced by the Australian government after further analysis of satellite data. | |
| The search will now shift south to focus on an area 1,800km (1,100 miles) off the west coast of Australia, Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss confirmed. | |
| Flight MH370 vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March with 239 passengers on board. | |
| Officials said they believed the plane had been on autopilot when it crashed. | |
| An extensive search of the ocean floor conducted after a series of acoustic pings, thought to be from the plane's flight data recorders, were failed to find any trace of the plane. | |
| Many of the relatives of the missing passengers have been frustrated by the lack of progress in the search. | |
| "It is highly, highly likely that the aircraft was on autopilot otherwise it could not have followed the orderly path that has been identified through the satellite sightings," Mr Truss said. | |
| A 64-page report released by the Australian government concluded that the underwater search for the plane should resume in the new area. |