Meanings of southern search in English

A map of the southern search corridor for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.

The two detections by Haixun 01 had taken place inside this higher-priority southern search zone.

Today, Malaysia also deployed two C-130 aircraft to the Indonesian sector of the southern search corridor.

Authorities have used satellite data to plot northern and southern search arcs, sweeping north to Kazakhstan and down to the southern Indian Ocean.

Still, the revised area is roughly the size of Spain and Portugal combined and will take the Australian-led southern search team several weeks to comb.

Malaysia, which is yet to have any boats or planes in the southern search zone, would take control of the analysis of any debris found.