MH370 debris can be used to track the location of the wreckage (Image: GETTY)
The Malaysia Airlines jet vanished on March 8 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard. Using satellite data, it was concluded the plane went into the Indian Ocean, but investigators could not find the wreckage in the great expanse of water. Missing planes are usually found by spotting debris on the surface.
This debris can then be used to locate where the main wreckage is on the ocean bed.
Jeff Wise, author of The Plane That Wasn’t There, said: “By ‘drifting' debris, that is modelling the currents that had moved them around, investigators would be able to determine the likely area of impact.
“At that point, underwater microphone gear would be towed back and forth listening for acoustic pingers attached to the black boxes."
He added: “All they had to do was find one single piece and in a stroke much of the uncertainty surrounding MH370’s fate
