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In an unremarkable ‘puff piece’ – HERE – I found one statement of interest.

 Experts think the plane crashed thousands of miles to the east of Mozambique into the Indian Ocean on March 8, 2014, but the location of the newfound debris is "consistent with drift modeling" of the ocean, said Australian Transport Minister Darren Chester, according to USA Today.

It is very good to see the Minister speaking out, taking an active interest, instead of the usual blether from the bearded buffoon.  Perhaps Chester is going to be good value; let’s hope so.

2nd that assessment "K" -   Maybe the Minister & government have finally got the message on Dolan i.e. he is even less believable & has less credibility than even a politician

Moving on & Binger joins the Weekend Oz expose with an update/summary, with a NOK comment, of the current developments in regards to the MH370 search and in the lead up to the 2nd anniversary that the MAF B777 disappeared:

Hunt for answers to MH370 mystery

• Mitchell Bingemann
  
• The Australian
  
• March 5, 2016 12:00AM
  

In little more than three months’ time the four ships searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will switch off their sonar equipment, turn back towards Perth and forever stop hunting for ­answers to what has become the greatest aviation mystery.

But for the families who lost their loved ones on that ill-fated flight, the pain never eases.
“It has been an excruciating experience that we have to face day by day, for more than 700 days and counting,” says Wee Hoon Lim, whose brother-in-law was on the flight.

“It has been draining us physically, emotionally and mentally. But they say life must go on. And that is true. But we want answers to our questions. We will keep on praying. We can never forget. We will never give up.”

Tuesday marks two years since MH370 veered off course en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and vanished from radar screens.

But in Malaysia there will be no tolling of bells, laying of wreaths or official memorial services to mark the ebb of time. The Malaysian government, which has been criticised for its lax approach to the investigation, will instead hold a simple service in parliament.
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 vanished after radio communication was cut, its radar transponder turned off, and it flew a course back over the border­ between Malaysian and Thai airspace.

Based on the jet’s likely path, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has led a search involving planes and ships from seven countries scouring more than 85,000sq km over vast tracts of the southern Indian Ocean.

The failure of the search has led many pilots and experts to believe the most logical explan­ation for the disappearance was that the plane’s captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, deliberately steered it thousands of kilo­metres off course before it crashed west of Australia.

Regardless of what theories are pursued, there is one certainty: come July, when the designated 120,000sq km target search zone has been covered, the hunt will end. If not discovered by then, the secrets of MH370 and its 239 passengers and crew will never be known.

The families of the 239 passengers were given fresh hope that the plane might be found when a piece of wreckage washed up this week on a sandbank in the ­Mozambique Channel, in Africa’s southeast. The piece has been flown to Australia for examination by local and Malaysian aviation ­officials.

 
 Also of interest was a contribution comment from Brock McEwan (on the Plane Talking blog -  HERE), that in all the recent MSM etc. white noise many MH370 followers may have missed:

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Brock McEwen
Posted March 4, 2016 at 12:13 pm | Permalink

In other MH370 news:

Fugro Discovery has had some serious issues in the past half year:

Departed / Fate
2015.10.28 / Sick crew #1 (no searching)
2015.11.09 / Sick crew #2 (no searching)
2015.11.29 / A record 33 days of searching
2016.01.13 / Lost towfish (no searching)
2016.01.31 / Damaged cable (no searching)

According to the wonderful maps provided to me pro bono by Vessel Tracker (to support my MH370 research, on behalf of the families), Disco’s latest sortie (departed 2016.02.20) introduced fresh concerns. here are its first four tracks:

Track 1: precisely repeated Dec.24 track
Track 2: precisely repeated Dec.31 track
Track 3: precisely repeated Dec.30 track
Track 4: precisely repeating Dec.26 track (in progress)

It is possible – in fact, it is looking increasingly likely – that the only ostensibly “productive” sortie of the five may not, in fact, have been productive at all.

If so: I look forward to hearing the fifth of five separate excuses for why Fugro Discovery went over four MONTHS (Oct.22, 2015 until Feb. 27, 2016) without actually increasing the area searched.

I too would be interested in the answer to that QON Brock?
By the way Brock I noticed that the ATSB is yet to place your previous FOI request on the FOI Disclosure Log - I guess they're too busy for that; or as they told another enquirer with a reasonably straightforward FOI request - "we don't have the resources for that.."  
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