Here’s the latest theory about missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370:  The plane was flying faster than investigators previously thought.  And just like a car, the faster it goes, the greater the fuel use – reducing the distance it could have covered as it headed over the Indian Ocean.

AMSA has moved the main search area 1,100 kilometers to the northeast after receiving this “credible lead” from the International Investigative Team in Malaysia.  It’s now 1,850 kilometers from Perth, instead of 2,500 kilometers southwest of Perth.  Six ships are now relocating to the new search area including HMAS Success and five Chinese ships, and satellites are being re-tasked to search the region.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says estimates of the apparently ill-fated 777-200ER’s flight path cold be refined even further as more information is developed from “continuing analysis of radar data between the South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca before radar contact was lost”.