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By Catherine
E. Shoichet, Michael Pearson and Jethro Mullen, Mar. 28, 2014, CNN
Search
teams shifted to a different part of the Indian Ocean Friday in their hunt for
the missing Malaysia Airlines plane after "a new credible lead,"
authorities said.
An
analysis of radar data led investigators to move the search to an area 1,100
kilometers (680 miles) to the northeast, the Australian Maritime Safety
Authority said, calling the new information "the most credible lead to
where debris may be located."
"It
indicated that the aircraft was traveling faster than previously estimated,
resulting in increased fuel usage and reducing the possible distance the
aircraft traveled south into the Indian Ocean," the authority said in a
statement.
Four
search aircraft are now over the new area, with six more due to fly there over
the course of Friday, said John Young, the authority's general manager of
emergency response.
The renewed
search for Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean comes a day after Japan and
Thailand both said they'd sent new satellite images to Malaysia showing
separate debris fields that could be related to the plane, which vanished March
8 with 239 people aboard.
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