Joint Agency Coordination Centre ( JACC ) is an Australian government agency which was established on 30 March 2014 to coordinate search and recovery operations for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 , which disappeared on 8 March 2014 and was soon thereafter determined to have ended in the Southern Indian Ocean , within Australia 's concurrent aeronautical and maritime search and rescue regions . The JACC is an agency within Australia 's Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development , headed by Judith Zielke . It does not perform any search , recovery , or investigation activities , but coordinates the search effort and serves as a primary point of contact for information about the search for media and families of Flight 370 passengers
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Joint Agency Coordination Centre