Friday, 25 April 2014

FLIGHT MH370: Malaysia To Release Report On Disappearance Of Passanger Plane

by Benson Agoha

Malaysia will release a preliminary report next week on the fate of MH370 which disappeared on March 8, with 239 passengers and crew on board, according to media reports.
 
Prime Minister Najib Razak made the revelation over accusations by family and friends of missing passengers that his government had not been transparent with the its investigation, and has been hiding the truth.
 

Australian Air Force staff man the Mission Commander …* Royal Australian Airforce staff in a Control Room at the Mission Commander station, aboard an RAA aircraft involved in the search.
 
In an interview aired by CNN yesterday, the Malaysian PM said "I have directed an internal investigation team of experts to look at the report, and there is a likelihood that next week we could release the report".
 
On Wednesday, Malaysian officials confirmed that the report had already been sent to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), as they prepare to comply with regulatory requirement  for countries to submit, within 30 days, whatever information is available as a full run-down, in the event of an air crash.
 
But it is no clear why it was sent first to the ICAO and speculators wonder whether it contains some embarrasing information.

According to AFP, the Department of Civil Aviation director Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said at the time no decision had been made on whether to publicly release the report.  Could there indeed be something the public should not know?

"No, I don't think so," said the PM, adding "But I just want it to be -- this team to go through it. But in the name of transparency, we will release the report next week." he said.

Flight MH370, took off from Kuala Lumpur heading to Beijing on the night of March 7, but did not arrive as it disappeared in the early hours of March 8.

Prompting an international search and rescue effort that involved the use of Aircrats, Ships, sub-marine and underwater drones to comb the bed of the Indian Ocean

The plane is believed to have crashed into the area described as the Southern Corridor, 1500 miles off the Coast of Perth.

Efforts led by Austria is currently in place to recover the black box in hope of know more about what happened, especially as the plane flew south rather than north, where it should have been headed.

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* Photo Credit: AFP.

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