KEILAR: Well, it's been almost six months since Malaysia flight 370 vanished from radar on a routine flight to Beijing. Nothing of the plane or 239 people aboard has been found. And now Australian officials think they've been looking in the wrong place again.</s>KEILAR (voice-over): The search for missing flight 370 is arguably the most puzzling in history. But each new piece of the puzzle gives authorities and family members of victims a glimmer of hope. In a news conference Thursday, Australian deputy prime minister Warren Truss said a satellite phone call to MH370 may shed new light on the plane's possible location.</s>WARREN TRUSS, AUSTRALIAN DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER: Some work has been done endeavoring to map the position of the aircraft when a filed satellite telephone conversation was attempted between Malaysian airlines on the ground and the aircraft and that has suggested to us that the aircraft may have turned south earlier than we had previously expected. But the search area remains the same.</s>KEILAR: The search for MH370 is set to resume next month. Australian hired a Dutch engineering firm, Fugro, for the task.</s>TRUSS: I remain cautiously optimistic we'll locate the missing aircraft in the priority search area. And this search will obviously be a challenging one.</s>KEILAR: Fugro has begun underwater mapping and will begin operations next month. The new search is expected to cover 60,000 square kilometers and take up to a year to complete. Using two vessels equipped with side scan sonar, multi-beam echo sounders and video cameras investigators will scour the sea floor in a new search area which is about 7,000 meters deep in some place. Plight MH370 vanished March 8th with 239 people aboard on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. If the plane is located, Fugro's goal to positively identify and map the wreckage. The estimated cost of the new operation, up to $48 million, but the closure that finding the ill fated plane would bring to victims' families is priceless.</s>KEILAR: Former inspector general with the department of transportation Mary Schiavo will weigh in, next.
The Search for MH370 Set to Resume Next Month