Australian authorities says new analysis shows they're searching for the Malaysian airliner Flight 370 in the right place

After almost two years of hunting for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australian authorities said that new analysis confirms they are searching for it in the right place.

CBS News reported authorities has been looking for the airplane, covering 46,000-square-mile of the Indian Ocean. However, the only proof so far that Flight 370 is in that area is its wing flap, which surfaced in a remote island in July.

New analysis using satellite technology provided "hotspots" where the wreckage are, said Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss Thursday. Bloomberg wrote that investigators are now narrowing their search in the southern end of the 100,000 square-kilometer search area. 18th-century English statistician Thomas Bayes helped searchers look for the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

"If you get to the end of what all the search modeling has suggested and you still haven't found it, then that's probably the end game," said Central Queensland University professor Geoffrey Dell. "That would be really sad for all the people, families who have been looking for some closure."

According to a report by the US News, the Boeing 777 disappeared on March 8, 2014 carrying 239 people. It vanished from the radar during its flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing. Its disappearance has become a mystery baffling authorities.

The search for the plane 1,800 kilometers southwest of Australia started October last year. Searchers used side-scan sonar and drones with video camera to look for the plane in more than 70,000 square kilometers. The area where they searched is based on the data of the final hours during the flight of the Boeing 777.

According to investigators, someone on board intentionally disabled the plane's tracking devices. They later concluded that the aircraft turned back to the Indian Ocean and crashed into the sea at the western coast of Australia. Some are optimistic, while most of the grieving family members of the passengers are not very hopeful with the search.