The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has commenced a transport safety investigation into a collision with terrain accident involving an Air Tractor aerial application aircraft north-west of Bourke on Saturday morning.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) published four reports describing oceanographic drift modelling work done in aid of the search for MH370.
The first report identified the 36°-32°S segment of the 7th arc (especially the region near 35°S) as being the most likely site of the impact, based on where and when debris was seen and not seen on African and Australian shores and during the initial 40-day aerial search (Fig 1.1). This work was a contribution to the First Principles Review ATSB (2016).
Geoscience Australia (GA) was asked to assist the ATSB in the analysis of a set of four Airbus PLEIADES 1A images. GA received these images for analysis on 23 March 2017.
The data was acquired over the Indian Ocean on 23 March 2014. The analysis performed by GA was to determine whether the images included objects that were potentially man-made in origin. GA analyses included semi-automatic workflows and a number of potential objects were identified.
In late January 2022, the ATSB asked Geoscience Australia to undertake a review of certain sonar imagery collected during the original search for MH370, conducted between October 2014 and January 2017.
The review concluded that it is highly unlikely there is an aircraft debris field within the reviewed search area.
