Missing Malaysia flight MH370 is almost certainly not in the current search zone in the remote Indian Ocean but could be further north, officials said Tuesday, nearly three years after the hunt began. No trace has been found in the enormous underwater search off Australia for the jet lost en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 2014, carrying 239 passengers and crew. However, more than 20 pieces of debris recovered mostly on western Indian Ocean shorelines has been identified as likely, or definitely, from the doomed Malaysia Airlines plane. With scouring of the wild 120,000km² area of sea coming to an end, Australian and international experts, including from Boeing and Inmarsat, met in Canberrain November to review their evidence and modelling. They concluded the plane was not where they had been looking, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), which has been leading the mission, said in a report. "There is a high degree of confidence that the previously identified ...
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