A new interim report on Wednesday claimed that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went into a slow left turn and crashed into the Indian Ocean after its fuel ran out.

The new report points investigators towards the southern section the current search zone. Flight simulations recreating the final moments of the aircraft, which disappeared on March 8 after taking off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing, suggest it entered "a descending spiraling low bank angle left turn" and hit the ocean "a relatively short distance after the last engine flameout," the Australian Transportation Safety Bureau (ATSB) said in an update.

The analysis confirms the jet crashed in "relatively close proximity" to the arc where a complex and exhaustive underwater search was started by the investigators on Monday, the ATSB said.

However, it said a "better understanding" of data from an unanswered ground-to-air satellite telephone call "indicate that the next, underwater, phase of the search should be prioritized further south within the wide search area."

It remains to seen whether there would be changes to the underwater search plans, which were published Tuesday, but the report noted that "ongoing refinement may result in changes to search asset deployment."