The search for the missing Malaysian flight MH370 is still on and Australian officials say the next phase of the hunt will move hundreds of miles south.
Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Chief Martin Dolan, said the search would focus on an area 1,800km off the city of Perth.
Dolan said he expected the probable crash site would be hundreds of kilometers (miles) south of where a remote-controlled underwater drone scoured 850 square kilometers (330 square miles) of seabed in the first fruitless search that ended last month.
That search area was defined by acoustic signals suspected to have come from the missing plane’s black boxes, which promised to be the best clue to finding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. But those signals are now widely thought to have come from some other source.
Nearby areas were previously surveyed from the air, but the undersea hunt was directed north after pings were heard.
The new search area will not be based on new data, but on refined analysis of existing satellite information from the doomed Boeing 777 after it veered off course during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8.
The plane vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 with 239 passengers on board.