MH370 Malaysia’s position has not changed on the search area of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, said Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

Najib said this in Beijing yesterday when asked about the statement issued by the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) searching for the missing plane.

Australia’s JACC had said in a statement that it had completed its search in the Indian Ocean where pings were detected and has discounted the zone as the final resting place of the plane that went missing on March 8 with 239 passengers and crew.

JACC, however, said it remained confident they had established the course of the missing plane and that the aircraft entered the water in a long but narrow arc of the southern Indian Ocean.

Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, who was also present at the prime minister's press conference with the Malaysian media in Beijing, confirmed the deployment of ProSaS Deep Towed synthetic sonar and Remora Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) in the search area.

“We will depploy these as we enter into the next phase of the Deep Sea Search operation,” he said.

Hishammuddin said the very advanced and capable systems would be funded by Petronas and Deftec.

The minister said he was confident the new search capability would greatly assist in the new search phase.

- Bernama