article_snippet: A detailed search for Indian Ocean rubbish on the south west coast of Tasmania might have indicated that the hunt for missing flight MH370 is in the wrong place.
article_snippet: Some of the debris has drifted 6,000 miles across Indian Ocean from as far away as Madagascar and South Africa but there has been nothing that appears to be from the Malaysia Airlines jet.
article_snippet: Yet the official search area for the aircraft, some 1200 miles south west of Perth in Western Australia, lies virtually in the path that the rubbish from the other side of Indian Ocean has drifted along.
article_snippet: Doomed: A detailed search for Indian Ocean rubbish on the south west coast of Tasmania Tasmania might have indicated that the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 (pictured) is in the wrong place .
article_snippet: If nothing more, the discovery of rubbish from Madagascar and South Africa South Africa confirms that the ocean tides will carry debris many thousands of miles, passing close to the MH370 search area, to the shores of Australia - and perhaps onwards into Indian Ocean.
article_snippet: There have been numerous suggestions that despite complex mathematical calculations the search for the aircraft, which vanished more than a year ago on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew, is in the wrong area.
article_snippet: And while the rubbish clean-up by a team of volunteers along the remote beaches of Tasmania was not conducted to look for debris from the aircraft, the ocean currents have brought nothing in to suggest that the aircraft lies at the bottom of the sea somewhere out to the west.
article_snippet: If there was anything in southern Tasmania from the jet, a team of volunteers would have found there was anything in southern Tasmania from the jet, for a team of volunteers have been picking up minute pieces of plastic as small as a grain of rice.
article_snippet: No-one reported finding anything that suggested discovered debris was from the jet - but debris uncover a great deal of other items that could be traced back to boats and even to Madagascar and the African continent.
highlights_snippet: Volunteers say this is impossible if jet crashed in the current search area .
  
highlights_snippet: Suggests investigators could be looking for the aircraft in the wrong place .