Eleven years on, the search is resuming in the Indian Ocean. The investigations are being led by the marine exploration company Ocean Infinity, announced Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke on Tuesday February 25.

Jean Paul Troadec was Director of the BEA from 2009 to 2014.

At the end of the program, he mentioned the work carried out by Patrick Blelly and Jean-Luc Marchand. This work was presented at a conference organized by 3AF Ile de France...

Click here to watch the conference on his YouTube channel.

This work helped redefine the search area for the wreck.

Patrick Blelly is one of the contributors to the work of groupe CaptioN, which you can consult on their website (Cilquez here).

Under the direction of Jean-Paul Troadec, the BEA carried out several phases of the search for the wreckage of the Rio de Janeiro-Paris flight. The first challenge was to estimate the area of the accident using calculations established by a college of academics, mathematicians, statisticians and specialists in marine currents. These first campaigns having failed, a new research campaign was launched on the basis of a new estimate based on statistical calculations (Bayesian inference). It was during this campaign that the wreck of the plane was discovered, lying at a depth of almost 4,000 m in an abyssal plain surrounded by relief. The recovery phase of the recorders and wreckage components, carried out rapidly after the discovery, enabled us to understand the circumstances of the accident and to draw up the final accident report.
It is because of this experience that Jean-Paul Troadec will be consulted by the Malaysian investigating authorities as part of the inquiry into the disappearance of flight MH370.