Picture shows a map of the Malaysia Airlines missing flight MH370 search area in the Southern Indian Ocean (Picture: EPA)

Flight MH370 investigators are ‘confident’ they’re looking in right area for the missing plane.

Searchers have been combing a 46,000-square-mile part of the Indian Ocean since last year for the airliner that vanished with 239 people aboard.

But they’ve only found a wing flap of the Malaysia Airlines plane so far after it washed up on remote Reunion Island in July.

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French gendarmes and police carry a large piece of plane debris (Picture: Reuters)

MH370 Debris on Reunion Island (Picture: Sky News)

The new analysis by an agency of Australia’s Defence Department said the plane probably came to rest within the current search area – 1,100 miles south west of Australia.

‘We have a high level of confidence that we are searching in the right area,’ said Darren Chester, the assistant minister for defence.



The Boeing mysteriously disappeared on March 8 2014, during a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing.

Havila Harmony, one of three ships scouring the southern Indian Ocean for the remains of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

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