2 years on, MH370’s fate still a mystery
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TWO years after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared, answers remain elusive with international investigators yet to arrive at a conclusion over what happened to the jet.
The international team looking into the aircraft’s disappearance said in an interim statement released yesterday that it was still reviewing key information.
“At this time, the team is continuing to work toward finalizing its analysis, findings, conclusions and safety recommendations on eight relevant areas associated with the disappearance of flight MH370 based on relevant information,” the team said in a statement, read out on state television by lead investigator Kok Soo Choon.
The team is led by Malaysia and includes investigators from the United States, Britain, China, France and Australia.
The Boeing 777 vanished from radar screens shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, bound for Beijing, on March 8, 2014, becoming one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history.
Investigators believe the plane, with 239 passengers, 154 of them Chinese, and crew on board, was flown thousands of miles off course before crashing into the ocean off Australia.
Wreckage and impact information was being considered based on the discovery of a wing part, known as a flaperon, in July last year, the team said.
The flaperon, washed up on Reunion island off Madagascar, has been the only confirmed piece of wreckage from the aircraft to be found, though Malaysia is investigating two new pieces of debris found in Mozambique and Reunion.
The team said the areas being looked into included the plane’s diversion from its flight plan, crew profiles, airworthiness and maintenance of the aircraft as well as its cargo consignment.
Some 120,000 square kilometers of the sea floor is being scoured at a cost of about A$170 million (US$124.17 million).
The team said a full report of its work would only be released in the event wreckage of the aircraft is found or the search ends, whichever comes first.
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak said the search is expected to end later this year. He remains hopeful the plane will be found.
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