The Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) overseeing the search for Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 in the Indian Ocean is dismissing claims that the target might be thousands of kilometers off mark.  A private company says MH370 might be in the Bay of Bengal.

“The company is not declaring this is MH370, however it should be investigated,” read the statement by Australian geophysical survey company GeoResonance.  The Adelaide-based company said it had gathered images from satellites and aircraft, and subjected them to a proprietary analysis that detects electromagnetic fields to locate subsurface deposits.

“We identified chemical elements and materials that make up a Boeing 777,” said GeoResonance representative Pavel Kursa.  “These are aluminium, titanium, copper, steel alloys and other materials.”

The Bay of Bengal is located between India and Myanmar, thousands of kilometers north of the current search area.  GeoResonance claims a pretty lengthy and successful track record in finding things hidden underground and underwater.  But the JACC isn’t interested.

“The joint international team is satisfied that the final resting place of the missing aircraft is in the southerly portion of the search arc,” The JACC said in a statement.

“The company and its directors are surprised by the lack of response from the various authorities,” said GeoResonance in a follow-up release.