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MH370 OI search update etc.

First from 'that man' in the Oz:

Continue MH370 search: families

EAN HIGGINS
Families of Australian and Chinese passengers lost on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have called for a new search.

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Families call for MH370 search to continue

Families of Australian and Chinese passengers lost on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 have called for a new search, with some recommending scouring an area identified by an international group of senior airline pilots.

The call comes after the new Malaysian government said on Wednesday that the underwater survey by the private US company Ocean Infinity will end on Tuesday, having searched about 100,000sq km, and that the “no find, no fee” contract would not be extended.

The lobby group MH370 China Families, representing relatives of the 153 Chinese passengers who were among the 239 people on board, said: “We would welcome an initiative to search the area of 4300sq km around S39.2, E88.4, to clarify what is and what is not true.”

The latitude and longitude coordinates are those identified by British pilot Simon Hardy, Australian pilot Byron Bailey, New Zealand-born pilot Mike Keane, and British engineer and mathematician Robin Stevens as MH370’s resting place, based on calculations around the scenario that the aircraft captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, hijacked his own plane and flew it to a controlled ditching.

MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, on a scheduled flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, reversing course 40 minutes into the flight when its radar transponder was turned off and radio contact ceased. Automatic satellite tracking shows it ended up in the southern Indian Ocean.

The first hunt over three years of 120,000sq km, led by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, did not search all of the area first proposed by Captain Hardy because the bureau accepted the theory that the pilots were incapacitated at the end of the flight and the Boeing 777 crashed down rapidly after running out of fuel on autopilot.

The airline captains believe Zaharie was able to fly the plane about 100 nautical miles farther southwest than the ATSB looked.

The Chinese group has not accepted the official theory of where MH370 ended up, with some insisting it may have been hijacked to a remote airstrip perhaps somewhere in central Asia. A statement to The Australian said its call to search the proposed 4300sq km was “not to be construed as our believing MH370 would be found there”.

Danica Weeks, who lost her husband, Paul, on the flight leaving her to raise two boys alone, said Australia should encourage the new Malaysian government to release all available information about the flight.

“I think it’s time to step up and for Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop to say to them, ‘Give us what you’ve got’,” she said.

“You can’t put 239 innocent lives on a shelf.”

Malaysia’s new Transport Minister, Anthony Loke, said the new government was committed to transparency and would ­release details in due course.

But then the good news...

Door ‘still open’ on MH370
AMANDA HODGE
Malaysia’s PM-in-waiting says new information from a domestic investigation could solve the world’s biggest aviation mystery.

Or from the Daily Mail:

'Was it a failure of the system?' Malaysian prime minister-elect says he's not ruling out further searches for MH370 because there are still too many unanswered questions
Malaysia's new prime minister-in-waiting is not ruling out searches for MH370
MH370 disappeared March 2014 with 239 onboard en route from Kuala Lumpur
Anwar Ibrahim said there are too many questions that haven't been answered

By Nicole Pierre and Rod Ardehali For Daily Mail Australia

PUBLISHED: 12:52 AEST, 26 May 2018 | UPDATED: 19:15 AEST, 26 May 2018

Malaysia's new prime minister-elect has announced he is not ruling out further searches for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Anwar Ibrahim, 70, who won the country's election just weeks after being pardoned by the king and released from jail, said there are too many questions that have not been answered on MH370.

'Was it a failure of the system? Was it a failure of those monitoring the system or was it an intention to ignore or cover up?' he told The Australian.

What happened to MH370 is one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries. The plane disappeared in March 2014 with 239 on-board while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.



Anwar Ibrahim (pictured), 70, has announced he is not ruling out further searches for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370



MH370 is one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries - after the plane disappeared in March 2014 with 239 on-board while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing




Mr Anwar is skeptical about 'discrepancies in the cargo, passenger lists and the government's earlier assertions that the plane flew over the South China Sea



Pilot Mr Zaharie Shah (pictured) was flying the aircraft on March 2014 with 239 on-board while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing

Mr Ibrahim's comments come after Malaysia's transport minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook implied the current search will be the last for the lost Malaysian Airlines plane.

The new government has extended the current search to May 29, Mr Loke told the Australian.

Mr Anwar is skeptical about 'discrepancies in the cargo, passenger lists and the government's earlier assertions that the plane flew over the South China Sea instead of the Indian Ocean.

'What was described by authorities and what was in the cargo was totally different,' The prime minister-in-waiting said.

Mr Ibrahim also doesn't promote the controversial theory that the plane was hijacked by pilot Zaharie Shah.



Mr Anwar said there are too many questions that have not been answered on the MH370



'What was described by authorities and what was in the cargo was totally different,' The prime minister-in-waiting said

The new government has extended the current search to May 29, Transport minister Mr Loke said
The new government has extended the current search to May 29, Transport minister Mr Loke said

Leading expert Christine Negroni previously rubbished claims that the pilot of the Malaysia Airlines MH370 had been on a suicide mission and deliberately landed the plane in the sea.

Mrs Negroni pointed to crucial evidence that the wreckage of the Boeing 777's wing flaps - which assist with landing - were retracted at the time of the crash in March 2014.

Her comments came in response to claims made by former Canadian air crash investigator Larry Vance during at interview on Australia's 60 Minutes.

Mr Vance claimed that the pilot Shah had cruelly attempted to keep the plane in one piece - meaning everybody on board would perish, but he would avoid creating debris that would aid search attempts.

He claimed Shah flew off course on a suicide mission and planned to kill himself and the 238 others on the journey from Beijing to Kuala Lumpur.

Mr Vance said: 'He was killing himself; unfortunately, he was killing everybody else on board, and he did it deliberately'.

Setting out his argument in his new book MH370: Mystery Solved, Mr Vance suggested Shah wanted to leave as little trace as possible, in a final act of malice.

Yet Ms Negroni has rubbished his conclusions as 'preposterous' and 'absurd' and used the photos to prove her point.



Mrs Negroni (pictured) rubbished recent claims that pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah tried to land the plane in the Indian ocean softly



The plane was not under full control when it crash landed - rubbishing a bombshell theory set out by former Canadian air crash investigator Larry Vance

In a post on her website following the show, she slammed the 60 minutes for airing theories which she called 'far-fetched'.

'By contrast, in The Crash Detectives, I suggest that a rapid decompression of the aircraft rendered the pilots partially hypoxia and therefore incapable of making sensible decisions.

'One or both of the men on the flight deck then inadvertently flew the aeroplane off course until they succumbed. The plane flew on until it ran out of fuel in the South Indian Ocean.'



Mr Vance claimed Shah had attempted to keep the plane in one piece - meaning everybody on board would perish, but he would avoid creating debris that would aid search attempts


This photograph shows the flaps being retracted (left) and when they are extended (right)



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