失聯馬航最新調查報告：墜機前機上人員已窒息
Passengers and crew of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight most likely died from suffocation as the plane coasted into the ocean on autopilot, Australian officials have said.
澳大利亞官員稱，馬航失蹤航班MH370上的乘客和機組人員很有可能在飛機墜落前就已死於窒息，而飛機隨後在自動駕駛模式下墜入印度洋。
In a new 55-page report, the Australian Transport Safety Board said Investigators arrived at the conclusion after comparing conditions on the flight with previous disasters.
在這份長達55頁的報告中，澳大利亞運輸安全局表示，調查人員將MH370的狀況與此前失事的飛機相比較，雖然在飛機本身方面沒有新發現，但得出了上述結論。
The report narrowed down the possible final resting place from thousands of possible routes, while noting the absence of communications, the steady flight path and a number of other key abnormalities in the course of the ill-fated flight.
該報告從上千條預估路線中鎖定了MH370可能墜落的位置。另外，該報告還列出了航班失聯、航線確定等一系列失常狀況。
'Given these observations, the final stages of the unresponsive crew/hypoxia event type appeared to best fit the available evidence for the final period of MH370's flight when it was heading in a generally southerly direction,' the ATSB report said.
澳大利亞運輸安全局的報告這樣寫道：“據觀測，現有證據與失聯機組人員最後階段處於缺氧狀態的猜測十分吻合，當時飛機正向南航行。”
The new analysis comes more than 100 days after the plane disappeared on March 8 shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing.
此份分析報告距航班失蹤已超過100天。3月8日，這架從吉隆坡飛往北京波音777型號飛機起飛不久便失去聯繫。
Investigators say what little evidence they have to work with suggests the plane was deliberately diverted thousands of kilometres from its scheduled route before eventually plunging into the Indian Ocean.
調查人員表示，目前他們還未掌握證據證明飛機最終墜落於印度洋前曾被人爲轉向，離開既定航線幾千千米，最終墜入印度洋海域。
The next phase of the search is expected to start in August and take a year, covering some 60,000 sq km at a cost of A$60 million ($56 million) or more. The search is already the most expensive in aviation history.
下階段搜索預計將於8月展開，爲期一年，覆蓋約6萬平方千米，花費至少6千萬澳幣（5千600萬美元）。
The new priority search area is around 2,000km west of Perth, a stretch of isolated ocean frequently lashed by storm force winds and massive swells.
此次搜索已經成爲航空史上花費最多的一次。最新優先搜索區域在珀斯以西約2000千米處，此片海域常有大風大浪。
Two vessels, one Chinese and one from Dutch engineering company Fugro, are currently mapping the sea floor along the arc, where depths exceed 5,000 metres in parts.
分別來自中國和荷蘭工程公司輝固的兩艘船目前正沿第七弧線搜尋海底，部分區域水深超過5000米。而30日，招募公司承保海底搜尋工作的投標會就將結束。
