Search teams have been looking for missing MH370 flight 'in WRONG part of ocean' .

Search teams looking for missing flight MH370 could have been looking in the wrong place, it emerged today.

A new report out shows that the plane could have plummeted into the southern Indian Ocean after running out of fuel.

Search crews have recently been looking for the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight about about 1,100 miles off the west coast of Australia.

But, information from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau's new report shows this could be the wrong area.  It also concluded that the plane spiralled to the water after running out of fuel.

As reported by Mail Online, it said: "The simulator activities involved fuel exhaustion of the right engine followed by flameout of the left engine with no control inputs.

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"This scenario resulted in the aircraft entering a descending spiralling low bank angle left turn and the aircraft entering the water in a relatively short distance after the last engine flame-out."

The plane - with 298 passengers and crew on board - was travelling from Kuala Lumpar to Beijing when it disappeared.

A fleet of vessels with high-tech equipment including sonar and video cameras have been searching an area in the Indian Ocean.

Rescue teams said the new search could take  a year.

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Australian Transport Minister Warren Truss said: “It’s not clear how long the search will take.

“We would hope, obviously, to find the aircraft on the first day , but it could in fact take a year to search the entire area and weather conditions will have an impact."

Search leader Chief Commissioner Martin Dolan from the Australian Transport Safety Board added: “When they get going, they will deploy an underwater sonar on the end of very long cable,about four miles, close to ocean floor.

"Three things that make it complicated is that we know aircraft will be found there but have to prioritise high probability areas.

“Also, towing expensive equipment, we need to know closely what the ocean floor is like. The sea floor is quite complex, not just a simple matter, and additional attention is needed for some areas to cover them properly.

“Lastly, data itself requires a specialised eye to understand, so we also have the capacity to review.”

The search operation is a joint effort by Australia and Malaysia costing £40 million.

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