On 19 December 2015 , searchers for the lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 using sonar discovered wreckage at a depth of on the seabed of the southern Indian Ocean , to the west of Australia . After marine archaeologists consulted shipping records and newspaper reports they determined that the ship was probably the '' West Ridge '' . Coal recovered from the site was found to be of British origin , and the dimensions of the wreck matched those of the '' West Ridge '' . The ship would have weighed between 1,000 and 1,500 tons
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
West Ridge (ship)