Missing flight MH370 "most likely" lies north of a former search zone in the remote Indian Ocean, Australian authorities said on Friday, in a new report that offers hope the aircraft may one day be found. A vast underwater hunt for the Malaysia Airlines jet off Australia’s west coast was halted in January when no trace was found of the aircraft, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing three years ago, carrying 239 people. The Australian-led undersea search — the most expensive of its kind to date — operated on the assumption that MH370 went down somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean, based on satellite data. But relatives pleaded for the search to be extended following analysis by Australian and international experts released in December that concluded the aircraft was not in the search zone but might be further north. Three fragments were also recovered from the aircraft outside the official search zone on western Indian Ocean shores, including a 2m-wing part known...
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