Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet 'On Autopilot'
Australian officials say they are confident missing flight MH370 was flying on autopilot when it disappeared.
新聞背景：
北京時(shí)間6月26日，澳大利亞副總理沃倫·特拉斯在堪培拉議會(huì)大廈舉行發(fā)布會(huì)，宣布馬航MH370新的搜索區(qū)域。特拉斯稱，對(duì)MH370的搜尋還未能確認(rèn)飛機(jī)的下落，新確定的搜尋區(qū)也在印度洋西南部弧形區(qū)域內(nèi)，深度可能達(dá)到3-4公里。新確定的搜尋區(qū)是在原搜尋區(qū)向南、向西延伸，中國(guó)和澳大利亞的船只將參與測(cè)繪。水下搜尋有望8月開(kāi)始，可能持續(xù)12個(gè)月。新搜尋區(qū)面積6萬(wàn)平方公里，目前已經(jīng)搜尋860平方公里。MH370最后可能是自動(dòng)駕駛狀態(tài)，直至燃油耗盡。
馬來(lái)西亞航空公司商業(yè)總監(jiān)鄧?yán)S指出，失蹤已超過(guò)三個(gè)月的馬航MH370客機(jī)搜尋工作，可能需要10年才能完成。鄧?yán)S在接受英媒訪問(wèn)時(shí)表示，MH370客機(jī)殘骸可能已散布在十分廣大的海域，而海床的高山及深谷都對(duì)搜尋工作形成嚴(yán)峻的挑戰(zhàn)。

The search is going to resume over the India ocean towards the southen end of that southen arc, you remember the plane flwe south of farest we konw, way down india ocean and the search is going to back to that point,beacause it has not effectively been on hold of last two or three weeks where the area the pings were detected,pings which were thought to be coming from black box, but in fact, were not coming from black box, so im many way, it is back to square one, this is Warren trust have to say. the new priority area is still focusing on sign seven arc in the southen india ocean with aircraft last communicate with satellite. we are now shifting our attention to an area further south along arc, broadly in the area, we have first search for the focus. waht he said the search is a daunting prospect in the right, the new area is 60000 square kilometers wide. at the moment, twe vessels around there mapping the ocean floor, the ocean is around 3 to 5 kilometer de pound there. what the ship is doing is to make a 3D map, it will take about 3 months after that, the actual specialize search equipment can be brought in. And that search could take anything up to a year, so we are still a long very way understanding exactly what had happened to this plane MH370, one of the interesting point that he did make is the fresh analysis that satelite data that all information that they have pretty confident that the plane was definitely on auto-pilot as it ended its journey.