Malaysia says it will evaluate new MH370 data

In this March 31, 2014 file photo, HMAS Success scans the southern Indian Ocean, near the coast of Western Australia, as a Royal New Zealand Air Force P3 Orion flies over, while searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. (AP)

CANBERRA, Australia: Malaysia’s government says it will need to evaluate a new analysis that could narrow the search area for the missing Malaysian airliner to three specific locations in the southern Indian Ocean.
Deputy Transport Minister Aziz Kaprawi’s comments Wednesday came after the Australian Transport Safety Bureau cautioned that the new drift analysis by Australian science agency CSIRO is based on French satellite images of “probably man-made” floating objects, without evidence that they are from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
The bureau has released new analysis of the 2014 disaster that could provide potential starting points to search within a 25,000-square-kilometer (9,700-square-mile) expanse identified by a panel of experts in November as the most likely resting place of the Boeing 777 and the 239 people on board.
Aziz also said an offer from US firm Ocean Infinity to launch a private search for the plane was still being negotiated.