Malaysia Airlines hunt for missing plane

[CityFarmer]

Thank you all for the effort. All of you have make this forum special.

Regards
Moderator

[Belg]

Latest update from AMSA:

http://www.amsa.gov.au/media/documen...70Update23.pdf

[CityFarmer]

Latest news update. The "noise" will never go off, without the truth. Life of the families' members will never back to normal, without the truth as well.

I will pray for substantial search result in the next few days...

Objects retrieved from search site, none confirmed to be from MH370

PERTH - Chinese ship Haixun 01 and the HMAS Success, an Australian ship, have retrieved objects from the search site but none have been confirmed to be related to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Chinese aircraft Ilyushin-76 reported sighting of three objects while an Royal Australian Air Force P3-Orion sighted multiple objects in different search areas.

However, these objects have not been verified to be related to the missing plane as ships have yet to recover them, said the Australian Maritime Safety Authority in a press statement this evening.

Some 252,000 km of the estimated search area of 319,000 km were covered today. The search will resume tomorrow.
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/obj...d-be-mh370

[pianist]

so not belong to the mh370 plane's..
hope they will not throw the items back to the ocean else it aka littering

[CityFarmer]

After days of chaos, rationalities finally emerge from China side...

Chinese paper urges rationality over MH370

BEIJING — A commentary in China’s state-run media today (March 31) urged people to react “rationally” to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, after days of protests by passengers’ relatives who say Malaysia has mishandled the investigation.

Many Chinese kin of passengers have expressed extreme scepticism over accounts by the Malaysian government, maintaining it is not telling all it knows about the plane’s disappearance on March 8 and expressing frustration that it concluded the jet went down in the Indian Ocean without any physical evidence.

Several dozen of the relatives travelled to Malaysia today and staged a protest after arriving, holding up banners that read “We want evidence, truth, dignity” in Chinese, and “Hand us the murderer. Tell us the truth. Give us our relatives back.”

Empowered by a situation in which they can demand answers from a foreign government in a way that they cannot normally expect to do at home, the relatives have been strident in grilling Malaysian authorities for information, Beijing-based commentator Zhang Lifan said.

“There is no obstacle for them to question the Malaysian government in order to defend their rights. Put in similar scenarios but with the Chinese government in place, they won’t find it that easy to question the authorities,” he said.

Social media has been augmenting a general sense of negativity toward Malaysia by giving voice to rumours, doubts, speculation and paranoia, while seeming to offer some family members false hope, said writer and social commentator Ren Yi, a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and grandson of one of the communist state’s founding fathers.

“Cynicism and distrust of the authorities are Chinese national traits,” Mr Ren wrote in a post on his blog that he verified in an online chat with The Associated Press.

Accounts forwarded on Chinese social media — especially on popular mobile message services — have it that the plane is being held hostage deep in Central Asia, that Malaysia shot it down because hijackers wanted to crash it into Kuala Lumpur’s twin towers or that the US diverted it to a remote island to prevent secret information from reaching China.

China’s censors have not reined in the discourse about the missing Malaysia Airlines jet with the same urgency they normally would on stories that cast Beijing in a bad light. However, there are signs authorities are aiming to dial down the volume.

Commentary in the state-run China Daily today said that “we should not let anger prevail over facts and rationality.”

“No matter how distressed we are and how many details that are not clear, it is certain that flight MH370 crashed in the Indian Ocean and no one on board survived,” said the comments attributed to Ms Mei Xinyu, a researcher at the International Trade and Economic Cooperation Institute of China’s Commerce Ministry.
...
http://www.todayonline.com/world/chinese...epage=true

[CityFarmer]

All posts on news update without a clear source of the info and a link, will be removed.

Regards
Moderator

[chialc88]

update on Hishammuddin's Comms team twitter on MH370 Pilot cooms with KL Air Traffic Control:
MH370 Pilot-ATC Audiotelephony Transcript



Love Compassion

[CityFarmer]

The noise is fading away, and all back to normal. Patience, not only works on value investing, but also on crisis management...

Frustration with MH370 search: China denies being angry with Malaysia

Despite the unhappiness and anger of Chinese families towards Malaysia over its handling of Flight MH370’s disappearance, China’s envoy to Malaysia has assured that bilateral relations will not be affected.

Mr Huang Huikang, the Chinese Ambassador to Malaysia, said the Chinese government appreciated and was grateful to Malaysia for its efforts to locate the missing plane. “We never said China is angry, we never said China is dissatisfied with the progress made so far,” he told reporters yesterday after a closed-door briefing between the families and officials and experts involved in the search.
...
http://www.todayonline.com/world/asia/ch...y-malaysia

[Behappyalways]

MH370 Malaysia Airlines: Anwar Ibrahim says government purposefully concealing information
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...ation.html

[greengiraffe]

Captain Down Under, Mr Abbott said that would cost an estimated $60m and Australia would welcome contributions from other nations.

Lucky country or not really don't know since who on earth will pay remains questionable...

Australia’s $60m hunt for MH370 widens
BRENDAN NICHOLSON THE AUSTRALIAN APRIL 29, 2014 12:00AM

Search for MH370 to be scaled backPM With Angus Houston Presser
AFTER weeks spent scouring the Indian Ocean without finding any trace of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Australia has committed itself to a $60 million search covering a massively expanded 60,000 square kilometres of sea floor.

Fifty-two days after the aircraft disappeared with its 239 passengers and crew while on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, Tony Abbott announced that the search was entering a new phase focused on a massive expanse of ocean bed, 700km long and 80km wide. That is where satellite data has indicated the aircraft is likely to have run out of fuel and crashed.

The Prime Minister said he was baffled and disappointed that the aircraft had not been found.

“I regret to say that, thus far, none of our efforts in the air, on the surface or under sea have found any wreckage,” he said. “This is probably the most difficult search in human history.”

Former Australian Defence Force chief Angus Houston, who is overseeing the international search effort, told The Australian that by the time the search got under way there was little chance of finding floating debris, especially as a cyclone had been through the area.

“Unfortunately, the visual search in the Indian Ocean did not really get going until day nine,” he said. “If you get there immediately after the aircraft has gone into the water, particularly if it has broken up badly, if you get to the spot where it went in you’ll find something, Air Chief Marshal Houston said.

“But we started very late in the whole scheme of things and most of the wreckage would have sunk. Even things like cushions, once they come waterlogged, they gradually sink.”

Air Chief Marshal Houston said that in the case of an Air France jet that crashed in the Atlantic in 2009, wreckage was found on the fifth day of the search, but by day 16 searchers found no more floating debris and the surface search was called off after 26 days.

He did not think wreckage was likely to wash up on the Australian coastline.

If any wreckage was still afloat it was now certain to be a long way from the crash site, he said.

Air Chief Marshal Houston said he believed from analysis of satellite data that the aircraft was in the area to be searched. “I think we are in the right area,” he said.

Mr Abbott said the new phase of the search would involve a thorough analysis of the aircraft’s probable impact zone. He renewed his pledge to do everything possible to find the plane.

“I want the families to know, I want the world to know, that Australia will not shirk its responsibilities in this area. We will do everything we humanly can, everything we reasonably can, to solve this mystery.’’

The expanded underwater search, which has so far covered 400sq km of sea floor, will continue about 1100km west of the northwestern tip of Australia.

Mr Abbott made his announcement after a team using a remote-controlled mini-submarine had finished combing what it considered the most promising search area.

Air Chief Marshal Houston said the undersea search, to a depth of 4.5km or more, could take eight months if all went well.

He said the ocean floor was covered in silt and heavier parts of the aircraft might have sunk into it.

But he said he had been told that lighter parts of the aircraft would probably have been lying on top of the silt and would have been detected by the mini-submarine’s sonar equipment.

“The expert advice we have is that, irrespective of how thick it is, if there is an aircraft down there, there should be some debris lying on top of the silt,” Air Chief Marshal Houston said.

Mr Abbott said the mini-­submarine would continue its search, but that the search team would also be adopting different technology.

The government, in consultation with Malaysia and China, would be willing to engage one or more commercial companies to undertake the work, he said.

Mr Abbott said that would cost an estimated $60m and Australia would welcome contributions from other nations.

In the meantime, ships from Australia, China and Malaysia would continue the search.