Flight Ended in Southern Indian Ocean, No Survivors: Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that went missing shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur March 8 with 239 people on board ended in the southern Indian Ocean and there is no hope of any survivors, Malaysian authorities announced.

Addressing a press conference, Prime Minister Najib Razak said that British investigators from its Air Accidents Investigation Branch have confirmed that the Malaysia Airlines "flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean".

"They (AAIB representatives) informed me that Inmarsat, the UK company that provided the satellite data which indicated the northern and southern corridors, has been performing further calculations on the data. Using a type of analysis never before used in an investigation of this sort, they have been able to shed more light on MH370’s flight path," Razak said.

"Based on their new analysis, Inmarsat and the AAIB have concluded that MH370 flew along the southern corridor, and that its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth," he added.

Stating that it was a remote location, far from any possible landing sites, Razak said: "It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean."

The flight MH370 vanished mysteriously about an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur shortly after midnight March 8.

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