Families of the victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 were informed that it is likely that no one on the missing flight survived.

Relatives received a text message from Malaysia Airlines saying,  "Malaysia Airlines deeply regrets that we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none of those on board survived. ... we must now accept all evidence suggests the plane went down in the southern Indian Ocean."

In a 1 a.m. news conference, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said that a new analysis of satellite data shows that the missing plane crashed in to the southern Indian Ocean, the Associated Press reports.

Najib says they used the Inmarsat satellite company to use another form of technology that found that MH370 flew along the southern corridor.

"Its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean west of Perth," Najob said 17 days after MH370 disappeared. "This is a remote location far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness that I regret that I must inform you that according to this new data that MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean. The past few weeks have been heartbreaking. I know this news must be harder still."

Flight MH370 disappeared during an overnight flight on March 8 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. There were 239 passengers and crew on board.

Some objects were found near Perth. One object was grey or green and the other was orange and rectangular. Family members of those on board booked flight to Perth to be near the expected crash site.

The HMAS Success is heading towards the area to try to find the possible debris. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority said it could take days to find the debris. The ship may have to wait until daytime to find the objects.

"Relocation is proving difficult. That is partially a function of the poor visibility and the fact that the aircraft are a long way apart. It is quite difficult to get the next aircraft or the next ship into the spot to take over the watching where the object is because they are all at the end of their endurance and have to leave," Australian Maritime Safety Authority emergency response division general manager John Young said.
"You may find that we will be doing this for maybe three or four more days before we are confident that we have either found all of the objects there, or if they are there we simply can't find them. And that's the plan."