New plane search area determined by Boeing, US authorities
March 28, 2014 6:09 pm
Kuala Lumpur - The more northerly search area for a Malaysian plane believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean was determined by a team from aircraft maker Boeing, and the US National Transportation Safety Board, Malaysia's civil aviation chief said Friday.
"From that particular record, they have come up with the speed of the aircraft higher than what we have done before," Azharuddin AbdulRahman, chief of the Department of Civil Aviation, said.
"Therefore, the aircraft would not be as far as what we envisaged (it) to be and is on the northern side of the ... satellites sightings of the objects."