Investigators have released a mainly inconclusive 'final' report on missing MalaysiaAirlines flight MH370 suggesting the Boeing 777's controls were likely deliberately manipulated to take it off course but they were not able to determine who was responsible.
They had no conclusion about what happened aboard the Investigators released a report on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Monday, but suggested the Boeing 777's controls were likely deliberately manipulated.
Julian Bray, Aviation Expert comments:
This long awaited report was supposed to provide closure on what has to be one of the most difficult problems in recent years to resolve to resolve. But it does nothing of the sort, having romped through the various stages of the search and investigation, little or nothing of meaningful new content has been added.
It is in fact, a shoddy rehash of old data and offers no hope for the future. The report is so negative that it has already caused leading news organisations to downgrade the news value of this whole MH370 matter and perhaps that is just what the Malaysian authorities (and their expensive PR advisers) are seeking?
Clearly with the MH370 high on the news agenda, it has to be argued that such publicity is highly damaging to Malaysia tourism and the restructured airline. If that is the intention then the report succeeds. Others might say the opposite needs to be the case, and by not releasing anything of value in this latest report, new efforts by survivors must be fully supported by world governments and the media so that literally no stone is left unturned and that a proper post incident investigation is meticulously and publicly carried out with no cap on finance.
Clearly where the plane manufacturer fits satellite responders - as Boeing did (and continues to do so) in this case and in all other 777's - the subsequent operating airline should be required by law to pay as part of its air operators licence the satellite service subscription, to enable constant real time monitoring to be immediately processed and active.
Without this, the airline should be grounded, also the lithium batteries which make up part of the aircraft power unit need to be in retrofitted externally ejected battery pod boxes just as their military variants already are.
"The
answer can only be conclusive if the wreckage is found," Dr Kok Soo Chon,
head of the MH370 safety investigation team, told reporters.
On May
29, Malaysia called off a three-month search by U.S. firm Ocean Infinity, which
spanned 112,000 sq km (43,243 sq miles) in the southern Indian Ocean and ended
with no significant findings.
It was
the second major search after Australia, China and Malaysia ended a fruitless
A$200 million ($147.06 million) search across an area of 120,000 sq km (46,332
sq miles) last year.
Malaysian
and international investigators have been looking into why the Boeing 777 jet
veered thousands of miles off course from its scheduled route before eventually
plunging into the Indian Ocean.
Experts
believe someone may have deliberately switched off MH370’s transponder before
diverting it over the Indian Ocean.
The last
communication from the plane was from the Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah who signed
off with “Good night, Malaysian three seven zero”, as the plane left the
Malaysian airspace.
The
next-of-kin of the passengers were briefed on the final report by investigators
earlier on Monday.
Voice
370, a group representing the relatives, has previously urged the Malaysian
government for a review of the flight, including "any possible
falsification or elimination of records related to MH370 and its
maintenance".
"We
hope that these mistakes will not be repeated and that measures are put in
place to prevent them in the future," said Grace Nathan, a lawyer whose
mother, Anne Daisy, was on the plane.
"The
one point they stressed was that this report was not to assign blame, it was
only a safety investigation," she said.
Chinese
Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Beijing had paid close attention to
the MH370 investigation.
"We
hope that all sides can continue to remain in close contact and coordination,
to properly carry out relevant follow-up work," he told a daily news
briefing, without elaborating.
The only
confirmed traces of the aircraft have been three wing fragments washed up along
the Indian Ocean coasts.
Malaysia's
newly elected Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said Malaysia would consider
resuming the search for MH370 only if new clues come to light, this report now
makes that very unlikely.
Sources CNS ,RNS, CNN, ABC, Asianews,
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