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The search area also covers West of Perth Western Australia.

Perhaps the main resources should be concentrated on the Northern Route where the plane had the greatest opportunity to land.

The last satellite transmission from a Malaysian airliner missing for a week has been traced to the Indian Ocean off Australia, far from where searches have taken place, a person familiar with the analysis says.
A path from Malaysia to the ocean off Australia would have taken as much as 5000 kilometres, about the maximum distance the Boeing 777-200 could have flown with its fuel load.
Flight 370 may have flown beyond its last known position about 1600 kilometres west of Perth, and that location may not be an indication of where the plane ended up, said the person, who spoke on condition of not being named because of the sensitivity of the information.


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