JACC has committed to combing some 120,000 square kilometres of ocean floor in search for the right area. Replicas of a large piece of debris from missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 will be set adrift and tracked by satellite in the hope of helping find the plane's crash site, Australian officials said on Wednesday. The government's Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) said while experts had been working to model the drift of MH370 debris over the past 18 months, a "further intensive study will be undertaken". "Over the last nine months there has been a range of debris found along western Indian Ocean shorelines that has been linked to MH370," JACC said in the statement. "The flaperon is, however, particularly important as it was the first piece of debris to be found and therefore it spent the least amount of time adrift."

Source: dna August 24, 2016 10:08 UTC