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MH370 debris most likely washed up on Indonesian coast, says daily

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Despite reports from Australians on potential wreckage from flight MH370, search officials are saying that the jet will most likely be washed up on the coast of Indonesia and not Australia, where the search is being coordinated.

British newspaper The Independent reported officials in charge of the hunt as saying that they are still regularly receiving reports on wreckage, seven and a half months after the Beijing-bound jetliner went missing.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) was quoted as saying:

“The ATSB reviews all of this correspondence carefully.

“but drift modelling undertaken by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has suggested that if there were any floating debris, it is far more likely to have travelled west, away from the coastline of Australia.

“It is possible that some materials may have drifted to the coastline of Indonesia.”

The Independent reported that the ATSB had urged Indonesia to reveal the possibility of evidence from the MH370 disaster appearing on its shoreline.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 dropped off radar on March 8, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. There were 239 people on board.

Yesterday, Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said he was 99.9% optimistic of finding the missing airliner.

“If based on the technology that we are using and whether we are looking at the right place, then we are talking about 99.9% optimistic," he was quoted saying in The Star, after launching the Go Phoenix vessel and sophisticated underwater search equipment called the Prosas towed side scan sonar at Freemantle Port, Perth.

Hishammuddin said victims of flight MH370 would not be forgotten, saying “all that could be done to find the aircraft had been done thus far”.

The search for the Malaysian jet is the longest in modern passenger-airline history.

The previous record was the 10-day search for a Boeing 737-400 operated by Indonesia’s PT Adam Skyconnection Airlines, which went missing off the coast of that country’s Sulawesi island on January 1, 2007. – October 23, 2014.