EXCLUSIVE: Missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was turned around during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014, and is thought to have been deliberately crashed in the Southern Indian Ocean

Top aviation experts probing the mystery of flight MH370 have identified a probable crash site that they say warrants a new search of the ocean floor.

They believe the Malaysia Airlines jet flew 2,700 miles past Indonesia before crashing into the South Indian Ocean near to the coordinates of S34.2342 and E93.7875.

Victor Iannello, who assisted Australian officials during a previous search, said “there are better than even odds” that the missing passenger plane is within 100 nautical miles of the potential impact site.

Pieces of the Boeing 777-200ER have washed up on coastlines in the western Indian Ocean in the months and years after it vanished with 239 people on board while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on the night of March 8, 2014.