MH370 search moves further south
The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is moving to a new area south of where an intensive effort failed to find a trace.
Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss says this new area was checked for wreckage earlier but the search would now go underwater.
An expert group has reviewed all existing information and the new area, covering up to 60,000 square kilometres in the southern Indian Ocean, is now regarded as the aircraft's most likely final resting place.
It's expected the underwater search will start in August and take up to 12 months.
More than three months have passed since the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard - including six Australians.
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