Aviation experts plan next MH370 searches

Aviation experts will meet in Canberra to plan further underwater searches for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.

The expert panel, under the auspices of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), will meet on Wednesday to review data as part of the new phase in the search for the missing aircraft.

It involves experts from the ATSB, the UK Air Accident Investigation Branch, the US National Transportation Safety Board and British satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat.

MH370 was carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it vanished on March 8.