Missing flight MH370: Officials admit they were checking the wrong zone

It has been confirmed that the missing jet was never in the Indian Ocean search zone where acoustic 'pings' were heard.

12:12 29 May 2014

It has been announced that the missing flight MH370 was never in the Indian Ocean search zone where acoustic 'pings' were heard. 

 

Michael Dean, the US Navy’s civilian deputy director of ocean engineering, said that most countries now agreed that the sounds detected by the Navy’s Towed Ping location in April in the southern Indian Ocean came from another source unrelated to the missing jet. 

 

This latest announcement is expected to further fuel the conspiracy theories surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the plane. 

 

Meanwhile, Australia's transport safety authority has discounted the Indian Ocean as the final resting place of the MH370. 

 

Nearly two months after it disappeared, search teams did not find a single piece of the Boeing 777 after it disappeared during a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing. There were 239 people on board. 

 

The families of the victims, many of whom are unwilling to accept that their loved ones are dead, have been provided with the raw satellite data that could be examined by independent experts.