Officials have been searching for the Malaysian flight MH370 since it went first went missing. The search has been a long expedition, which has been going on for more than half a year and yielded little results. Recent reports show that this is because teams were searching in the wrong place.

Flight MH370 disappeared on March 8th. Since then there has been no sign of the crash or any of the the two hundred and thirty nine passengers. Though not from lack of trying. The GO Phoenix vessel, which was contracted by Malaysia to search for the aircraft, and numerous other ships have been searching for traces of wreckage and jet fuel a thousand miles off of the Australian coastline. This was where officials originally guessed the plane went down, but now the estimated crash location has changed.

Recent reports, according to Mail Online, now show that officials believe MH370 may have crashed over the Indian Ocean instead. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau released this statement on Wednesday, saying they calculated this new crash site based off of a flight path analysis. This change is due to the fact that the bureau now believes the plane was descending during the time of the crash, which changes the previous data.

The new report stated that ‘The simulator activities involved fuel exhaustion of the right engine followed by flameout of the left engine with no control inputs”. This caused speculation that the plane then crashed into the water shortly after the last flame out. This information, compiled with the new flight path analysis puts the crash somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean. If this is the case, investigators may be one step closer to finding the crash site, which was traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it veered off course and went down.