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LINKS FROM DAYS 01 TO 32 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
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SEARCH FOR THE PLANE YOURSELF-HERE
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FLIGHTWARE-LIVE FLIGHT TRACKING
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MALAYSIAN MH370 SEAT MAP
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Malaysia_Airlines/Malaysia_Airlines_Boeing_777-200.php
VIDEO RETIRED GENERAL SAYS THE PLANES IN PAKISTAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWiVkShm8cw
FINDING PHILIP WOOD
https://www.facebook.com/findingphilipwood370
SARAH SAYS PHILIP IS STILL ALIVE AND KIDNAPPED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKot27qbyw
SARAH BAJC SAYS PHILIP AND ALL ARE STILL ALIVE AND KIDNAPPED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKot27qbyw
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2014/04/08/erin-bts-bajc-mh370-plane-was-taken.cnn.html
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http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remebering-mh370-777-200er-victims-of.html (P1)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remembering-mh370-777-200er-citizens.html (P2)
THE MISSING PLANE MH370 SITUATION AT 12:03AM THU APR 24,2014
By Rolf on Monday, Apr 21st 2014 17:10Z-The Aviation Herald
So, finally then, the time table for the SQ68 scenario
17:21z MH370 disappears
17:26z SQ68 overflies KUL hdg 315 GS 490kt
17:36z UAE343 departs from KUL hdg 307
18:00z SQ68 reaches the flight path of westbound MH370 56 miles south of GIVAL and east of VAMPI
18:00z MH370 reaches VAMPI/GIVAL airspace and hears about SQ68 on the ATC. They also hear that UAE343 is still far away and turn north to catch up with SQ68
18:06z SQ68 overflies GIVAL at FL300 hdg 312 to IGREX GS 490kt
18:15z MH370 has descended to FL295 and has caught up with SQ68
If we assume that MH370 could fly 10 knots faster than SQ68, this translates to 15 mph. If they were able to catch up with SQ68 in 15 minutes, the distance at 18:00z was just 3 or 4 miles ahead of MH370. This conincides with SQ68 position. They crossed GIVAL at 18:06z at 490kt = 563 mph. 6 minutes before, at 18:00z, they were 56 miles south of GIVAL and pretty much straight east of VAMPI at the same time, when MH370 also reached the VAMPI/GIVAL airspace.
Australia transport bureau says beach debris not from MH370-APR 23,14-YahooNews
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Debris picked up on a beach in Western Australia this week is unlikely to have come from the Malaysian Airlines jet that vanished nearly seven weeks ago, Australia's transport bureau said on Thursday.The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has assessed the material that washed up on the coast 10 km (six miles) east of the town of Augusta, near the southwestern tip of Australia, the bureau's spokesman said."It's considered highly unlikely to be from MH370," spokesman Tony Simes said.ATSB commissioner Martin Dolan earlier told Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio that the bureau had examined detailed photographs of the debris and was satisfied it was not a lead in the hunt for the plane." We're not seeing anything in this that would lead us to believe that it is from a Boeing aircraft," he told ABC Radio.Authorities have given no details on the material, which was the first discovery of suspected debris in weeks and the first since the detection of what were believed to be signals from the plane's black box flight recorder on April 4.Seabed scans of a 10 km zone off the west coast of Australia have failed to turn up any wreckage, but Malaysia and Australia have vowed to plough on with the search for the plane that went missing on March 8 with 239 people on board.The U.S. navy drone that has been scouring the seabed is due to end its first full mission in the southern Indian Ocean within days.Malaysian acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the search authorities would need to "regroup and restrategize" if nothing was found in the current search zone, but said the search would "always continue"."I can confirm in fact we are increasing the assets that are available for deep-sea search," he told a news conference in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, adding that the government was seeking help from state oil company Petronas, which has expertise in deep-sea exploration.(Reporting by Sonali Paul; Editing by Chris Reese and Richard Pullin)
Search continues for Malaysian flight MH370
Media Release-24 April 2014—am-JACC
Up to 11 military aircraft and 11 ships are planned to assist in today's search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.Today the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has planned a visual search area totaling approximately 49,567 square kilometres. The centre of the search area lies approximately 1584 kilometres north west of Perth.Prior to the commencement of today's air search operations, an assessment of current weather conditions will be made as ex-Tropical Cyclone Jack moves south.The weather forecast for today is for heavy rain and low cloud, with south easterly winds up to 35 knots, sea swells of three to four metres and visibility of one kilometre.Bluefin-21 AUV is currently completing mission 12 in the underwater search area. Bluefin-21 has now completed more than 90 per cent of the focused underwater search area. No contacts of interest have been found to date.The focused underwater search area is defined as a circle of 10km radius around the second Towed Pinger Locator detection which occurred on 8 April.The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has advised that after examining detailed photographs of material washed ashore 10 kilometres east of Augusta, it is satisfied it is not a lead in relation to the search for missing flight MH370.Any further information will be made available if, and when, it becomes available.
-JACC
The Aviation Herald-By Simon Hradecky, created Saturday, Mar 8th 2014 01:10Z, last updated Wednesday, Apr 23rd 2014 15:23Z
http://avherald.com/h?article=4710c69b&opt=0
On Apr 23rd 2014 the JACC reported that "Western Australia Police have attended a report of material washed ashore 10 kilometres east of Augusta and have secured the material." The ATSB is examining the material if there is any relevance to flight MH-370, photos have been taken and sent to Malaysia.On Apr 23rd 2014 the ATSB described the material as a sheet of metal with rivets, the material appears interesting enough to take a closer look. Malaysia's Transportation Minister commented he had not yet seen those photographs.On Apr 23rd 2014 Malaysia's Minister of Transport stated, that a new investigation body is being formed to lead the investigation, the International Investigation Team. Malaysia's Cabinet has approved the formation of that new body: "The main purpose of the International Investigation Team is to evaluate, investigate and determine the actual cause of the incident so similar ncidents could be avoided in the future. I would also like to note that the investigation will not include criminal aspects which are under the purview of the Royal Malaysian Police." The investigation will continue to follow the requirements of the Civil Aviation Regulation 1966, the standards set under ICAO Annex 13 - Aircraft Accident and Incident Investigation - and the Chicago Convention. The Minister concluded: "Indeed, it is imperative for the government to form an independent team of investigators which is not only competent and transparent but also highly credible. As I’ve consistently said since the beginning, we have nothing to hide."
According to The Aviation Herald's radar data the aircraft was last regularly seen at 17:22Z (01:22L) at position N6.9 E103.6 about half way between Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) at FL350 over the Gulf of Thailand about 260nm northnortheast of Kuala Lumpur and 90nm northeast of Kota Bharu 40 minutes into the flight, followed by anomalies in the radar data of the aircraft over the next minute (the anomalies may be related to the aircraft but could also be caused by the aircraft leaving the range of the receiver).
Australia says search for Malaysian jet likely to use more powerful sonar to delve deeper
Rod McGuirk-CANBERRA, Australia — The Associated Press- Wednesday, Apr. 23 2014, 5:25 AM EDT
Australia’s prime minister said Wednesday that failure to find any clue in the most likely crash site of the lost Malaysia Airlines jet would not spell the end of the search, as officials planned soon to bring in more powerful sonar equipment that can delve deeper beneath the Indian Ocean.The search co-ordinationcentre said Wednesday a robotic submarine, the U.S. Navy’s Bluefin 21, had scanned more than 80 per cent of the 310-square-kilometre (120-square-mile) seabed search zone off the Australian west coast, creating a three-dimensional sonar map of the ocean floor. Nothing of interest had been found.The 4.5-kilometre (2.8-mile) deep search area is a circle 20 kilometres (12 miles) wide around an area where sonar equipment picked up a signal on April 8 consistent with a plane’s black boxes. But the batteries powering those signals are now dead.Defence Minister David Johnston said Australia was consulting with Malaysia, China and the United States on the next phase of the search for the plane that disappeared March 8, which is likely to be announced next week.Johnston said more powerful towed side-scan commercial sonar equipment would probably be deployed, similar to the remote-controlled subs that found RMS Titanic 3,800 metres (12,500 feet) under the Atlantic Ocean in 1985 and the Australian WWII wreck HMAS Sydney in the Indian Ocean off the Australian coast, north of the current search area, in 2008.“The next phase, I think, is that we step up with potentially a more powerful, more capable side-scan sonar to do deeper water,” Johnston told The Associated Press.While the Bluefin had less than one-fifth of the seabed search area to complete, Johnston estimated that task would take another two weeks.Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the airliner’s probable impact zone was 700 kilometres (430 miles) long and 80 kilometres (50 miles) wide. A new search strategy would be adopted if nothing was found in the current seabed search zone.“If at the end of that period we find nothing, we are not going to abandon the search, we may well rethink the search, but we will not rest until we have done everything we can to solve this mystery,” Abbott told reporters.“We owe it to the families of the 239 people on board, we owe it to the hundreds of millions — indeed billions — of people who travel by air to try to get to the bottom of this. The only way we can get to the bottom of this is to keep searching the probable impact zone until we find something or until we have searched it as thoroughly as human ingenuity allows at this time,” he said.The focus of the next search phase will be decided by continuing analysis of information including flight data and sound detections of the suspected beacons, Johnston said.“A lot of this seabed has not even been hydrographically surveyed before — some of it has — but we’re flying blind,” he said, adding that the seabed in the vicinity of the search was up to 7 kilometres (4 miles) deep.The search centre said an air search involving 10 planes was suspended for a second day because of heavy seas and poor visibility.But 12 ships would join Wednesday’s search of an expanse covering 38,000 square kilometres (14,500 square miles), centred 1,600 kilometres (1,000 miles) northwest of the city of Perth.Radar and satellite data show the jet carrying 239 passengers and crew veered far off course on March 8 for unknown reasons during its flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing. Analysis indicates it would have run out of fuel in the remote section of ocean where the search has been focused. Not one piece of debris has been found since the massive multinational hunt began.
Australia, Malaysia vow to keep searching to solve plane mystery
ReutersBy Byron Kaye | Reuters – 3 hours ago-APR 23,14-YahooNews
PERTH, Australia (Reuters) - Australia and Malaysia vowed on Wednesday to keep searching for a missing Malaysian plane despite no sign of wreckage after almost seven weeks, and as bad weather again grounded aircraft and an undersea drone neared the end of its first full mission.But Australian authorities said unidentified material washed up on the coast of Western Australia was being investigated for possible links to missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott had earlier acknowledged that the search strategy could change if seabed scans taken by the U.S. Navy drone failed to turn up a trace of the plane, which vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board."We may well re-think the search but we will not rest until we have done everything we can to solve this mystery," he said."The only way we can get to the bottom of this is to keep searching the probable impact zone until we find something or until we have searched it as thoroughly as human ingenuity allows at this time."The Bluefin-21 drone, a key component in the search after the detection of audio signals or "pings" believed to be from the plane's black box flight recorder, is due to end its first full mission in the southern Indian Ocean within days.The finding of unspecified material on the southern tip of Western Australia was the first report of suspected debris in weeks and the first since the detection of what were believed to be signals on April 4.Australian police have secured the material, found 10 km (six miles) east of the town of Augusta, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) overseeing the search said in a statement.No description of the material was provided and Malaysian officials said they had not verified the report.The Australian and Malaysian governments are under growing pressure to show what lengths they are prepared to go to in order to give closure to the grieving families of those on board flight MH370.Malaysian acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the search authorities would need to "regroup and restrategise" if nothing was found in the current search zone, but said the search would "always continue"."I can confirm in fact we are increasing the assets that are available for deep-sea search," he told a news conference in Kuala Lumpur, adding that the government was seeking help from state oil company Petronas, which has expertise in deep-sea exploration.Nearly two months after the jetliner vanished, Hishammuddin announced that Malaysia's cabinet had approved the formation of an independent international investigation team to probe the causes of the baffling incident.
INVESTIGATION LAUNCHED
The experts appointed to the panel would be named next week, and the investigation could begin a week later, Malaysian officials said."It's imperative for the government to form an independent team of investigators which is not only competent, transparent but also highly credible," Hishammuddin said. "As I've said since the beginning, we have nothing to hide."Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation will take the lead in the investigation to be carried out under United Nations rules, sources have told Reuters.But its relative lack of experience means it is likely to rely on foreign agencies, with some experts predicting a key role for Australia, which is coordinating search efforts.Malaysian police are conducting their own criminal investigation into why the Boeing jet veered thousands of miles off course on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.In a sign of the families' growing desperation for answers, a group purporting to be relatives of the missing flight's passengers published a letter to Hishammuddin, urging the government to investigate old media reports that the plane landed in Kandahar, Afghanistan."It is high time that the government should start thinking out of the box by exploring and re-examining all leads, new and old," said the letter, published on Facebook on Wednesday.Authorities suspended the air search for the second day in a row on Wednesday due to heavy rain, low cloud and big seas."Current weather conditions are resulting in heavy seas and poor visibility and are making air search activities ineffective and potentially hazardous," the JACC said, adding 12 ships would continue to help with the operation.The Bluefin-21 was scouring a 10 sq km (4 sq mi) stretch of seabed some 2,000 km (1,200 miles) northwest of the Australian city of Perth. Search officials have said that once its current mission is finished, they will redeploy the submarine to other areas yet to be determined.(Additional reporting Matt Siegel in Sydney, Al-Zaquan Amer Hamzah and Yantoultra Ngui in Kuala Lumpur; Editing by Stuart Grudgings and Ron Popeski)
OTHER MH370 STORIES I DONE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-47-mh370-777-2000er-missing-plane.html
LINKS FROM DAYS 33 TO 46 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-47-mh370-777-2000er-missing-plane.html
LINKS FROM DAYS 01 TO 32 ABOUT MH370-777-200ER SEARCH
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/day-32-mh370-missing-plane-they-may.html
SEARCH FOR THE PLANE YOURSELF-HERE
http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/malaysiaairsar2014
FLIGHTWARE-LIVE FLIGHT TRACKING
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS370/history/20140307/1635Z/WMKK/ZBAA/tracklog
MALAYSIAN MH370 SEAT MAP
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Malaysia_Airlines/Malaysia_Airlines_Boeing_777-200.php
VIDEO RETIRED GENERAL SAYS THE PLANES IN PAKISTAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWiVkShm8cw
FINDING PHILIP WOOD
https://www.facebook.com/findingphilipwood370
SARAH SAYS PHILIP IS STILL ALIVE AND KIDNAPPED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKot27qbyw
SARAH BAJC SAYS PHILIP AND ALL ARE STILL ALIVE AND KIDNAPPED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKot27qbyw
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2014/04/08/erin-bts-bajc-mh370-plane-was-taken.cnn.html
FREESCALE LOCATIONS
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/homepage.jsp?code=GLOBAL_SITES
http://www.freescale.com/
IF you wana leave a message to Flight Mh370 Members-
http://english.astroawani.com/p/feedback/comments
Family Members website
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_12ece77a00101eh9v.html
COMPLETE LIST OF ALL 239 ON MH370-777-200ER
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/complete-list-of-members-on-flight.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remebering-mh370-777-200er-victims-of.html (P1)
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/remembering-mh370-777-200er-citizens.html (P2)
THE MISSING PLANE MH370 SITUATION AT 12:03AM THU APR 24,2014
By Rolf on Monday, Apr 21st 2014 17:10Z-The Aviation Herald
So, finally then, the time table for the SQ68 scenario
17:21z MH370 disappears
17:26z SQ68 overflies KUL hdg 315 GS 490kt
17:36z UAE343 departs from KUL hdg 307
18:00z SQ68 reaches the flight path of westbound MH370 56 miles south of GIVAL and east of VAMPI
18:00z MH370 reaches VAMPI/GIVAL airspace and hears about SQ68 on the ATC. They also hear that UAE343 is still far away and turn north to catch up with SQ68
18:06z SQ68 overflies GIVAL at FL300 hdg 312 to IGREX GS 490kt
18:15z MH370 has descended to FL295 and has caught up with SQ68
If we assume that MH370 could fly 10 knots faster than SQ68, this translates to 15 mph. If they were able to catch up with SQ68 in 15 minutes, the distance at 18:00z was just 3 or 4 miles ahead of MH370. This conincides with SQ68 position. They crossed GIVAL at 18:06z at 490kt = 563 mph. 6 minutes before, at 18:00z, they were 56 miles south of GIVAL and pretty much straight east of VAMPI at the same time, when MH370 also reached the VAMPI/GIVAL airspace.
Australia transport bureau says beach debris not from MH370-APR 23,14-YahooNews
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Debris picked up on a beach in Western Australia this week is unlikely to have come from the Malaysian Airlines jet that vanished nearly seven weeks ago, Australia's transport bureau said on Thursday.The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has assessed the material that washed up on the coast 10 km (six miles) east of the town of Augusta, near the southwestern tip of Australia, the bureau's spokesman said."It's considered highly unlikely to be from MH370," spokesman Tony Simes said.ATSB commissioner Martin Dolan earlier told Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio that the bureau had examined detailed photographs of the debris and was satisfied it was not a lead in the hunt for the plane." We're not seeing anything in this that would lead us to believe that it is from a Boeing aircraft," he told ABC Radio.Authorities have given no details on the material, which was the first discovery of suspected debris in weeks and the first since the detection of what were believed to be signals from the plane's black box flight recorder on April 4.Seabed scans of a 10 km zone off the west coast of Australia have failed to turn up any wreckage, but Malaysia and Australia have vowed to plough on with the search for the plane that went missing on March 8 with 239 people on board.The U.S. navy drone that has been scouring the seabed is due to end its first full mission in the southern Indian Ocean within days.Malaysian acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the search authorities would need to "regroup and restrategize" if nothing was found in the current search zone, but said the search would "always continue"."I can confirm in fact we are increasing the assets that are available for deep-sea search," he told a news conference in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, adding that the government was seeking help from state oil company Petronas, which has expertise in deep-sea exploration.(Reporting by Sonali Paul; Editing by Chris Reese and Richard Pullin)
Search continues for Malaysian flight MH370
Media Release-24 April 2014—am-JACC
Up to 11 military aircraft and 11 ships are planned to assist in today's search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.Today the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has planned a visual search area totaling approximately 49,567 square kilometres. The centre of the search area lies approximately 1584 kilometres north west of Perth.Prior to the commencement of today's air search operations, an assessment of current weather conditions will be made as ex-Tropical Cyclone Jack moves south.The weather forecast for today is for heavy rain and low cloud, with south easterly winds up to 35 knots, sea swells of three to four metres and visibility of one kilometre.Bluefin-21 AUV is currently completing mission 12 in the underwater search area. Bluefin-21 has now completed more than 90 per cent of the focused underwater search area. No contacts of interest have been found to date.The focused underwater search area is defined as a circle of 10km radius around the second Towed Pinger Locator detection which occurred on 8 April.The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has advised that after examining detailed photographs of material washed ashore 10 kilometres east of Augusta, it is satisfied it is not a lead in relation to the search for missing flight MH370.Any further information will be made available if, and when, it becomes available.
-JACCThe Aviation Herald-By Simon Hradecky, created Saturday, Mar 8th 2014 01:10Z, last updated Wednesday, Apr 23rd 2014 15:23Z
http://avherald.com/h?article=4710c69b&opt=0
On Apr 23rd 2014 the JACC reported that "Western Australia Police have attended a report of material washed ashore 10 kilometres east of Augusta and have secured the material." The ATSB is examining the material if there is any relevance to flight MH-370, photos have been taken and sent to Malaysia.On Apr 23rd 2014 the ATSB described the material as a sheet of metal with rivets, the material appears interesting enough to take a closer look. Malaysia's Transportation Minister commented he had not yet seen those photographs.On Apr 23rd 2014 Malaysia's Minister of Transport stated, that a new investigation body is being formed to lead the investigation, the International Investigation Team. Malaysia's Cabinet has approved the formation of that new body: "The main purpose of the International Investigation Team is to evaluate, investigate and determine the actual cause of the incident so similar ncidents could be avoided in the future. I would also like to note that the investigation will not include criminal aspects which are under the purview of the Royal Malaysian Police." The investigation will continue to follow the requirements of the Civil Aviation Regulation 1966, the standards set under ICAO Annex 13 - Aircraft Accident and Incident Investigation - and the Chicago Convention. The Minister concluded: "Indeed, it is imperative for the government to form an independent team of investigators which is not only competent and transparent but also highly credible. As I’ve consistently said since the beginning, we have nothing to hide."
According to The Aviation Herald's radar data the aircraft was last regularly seen at 17:22Z (01:22L) at position N6.9 E103.6 about half way between Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) at FL350 over the Gulf of Thailand about 260nm northnortheast of Kuala Lumpur and 90nm northeast of Kota Bharu 40 minutes into the flight, followed by anomalies in the radar data of the aircraft over the next minute (the anomalies may be related to the aircraft but could also be caused by the aircraft leaving the range of the receiver).
Australia says search for Malaysian jet likely to use more powerful sonar to delve deeper
Rod McGuirk-CANBERRA, Australia — The Associated Press- Wednesday, Apr. 23 2014, 5:25 AM EDT
Australia’s prime minister said Wednesday that failure to find any clue in the most likely crash site of the lost Malaysia Airlines jet would not spell the end of the search, as officials planned soon to bring in more powerful sonar equipment that can delve deeper beneath the Indian Ocean.The search co-ordinationcentre said Wednesday a robotic submarine, the U.S. Navy’s Bluefin 21, had scanned more than 80 per cent of the 310-square-kilometre (120-square-mile) seabed search zone off the Australian west coast, creating a three-dimensional sonar map of the ocean floor. Nothing of interest had been found.The 4.5-kilometre (2.8-mile) deep search area is a circle 20 kilometres (12 miles) wide around an area where sonar equipment picked up a signal on April 8 consistent with a plane’s black boxes. But the batteries powering those signals are now dead.Defence Minister David Johnston said Australia was consulting with Malaysia, China and the United States on the next phase of the search for the plane that disappeared March 8, which is likely to be announced next week.Johnston said more powerful towed side-scan commercial sonar equipment would probably be deployed, similar to the remote-controlled subs that found RMS Titanic 3,800 metres (12,500 feet) under the Atlantic Ocean in 1985 and the Australian WWII wreck HMAS Sydney in the Indian Ocean off the Australian coast, north of the current search area, in 2008.“The next phase, I think, is that we step up with potentially a more powerful, more capable side-scan sonar to do deeper water,” Johnston told The Associated Press.While the Bluefin had less than one-fifth of the seabed search area to complete, Johnston estimated that task would take another two weeks.Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the airliner’s probable impact zone was 700 kilometres (430 miles) long and 80 kilometres (50 miles) wide. A new search strategy would be adopted if nothing was found in the current seabed search zone.“If at the end of that period we find nothing, we are not going to abandon the search, we may well rethink the search, but we will not rest until we have done everything we can to solve this mystery,” Abbott told reporters.“We owe it to the families of the 239 people on board, we owe it to the hundreds of millions — indeed billions — of people who travel by air to try to get to the bottom of this. The only way we can get to the bottom of this is to keep searching the probable impact zone until we find something or until we have searched it as thoroughly as human ingenuity allows at this time,” he said.The focus of the next search phase will be decided by continuing analysis of information including flight data and sound detections of the suspected beacons, Johnston said.“A lot of this seabed has not even been hydrographically surveyed before — some of it has — but we’re flying blind,” he said, adding that the seabed in the vicinity of the search was up to 7 kilometres (4 miles) deep.The search centre said an air search involving 10 planes was suspended for a second day because of heavy seas and poor visibility.But 12 ships would join Wednesday’s search of an expanse covering 38,000 square kilometres (14,500 square miles), centred 1,600 kilometres (1,000 miles) northwest of the city of Perth.Radar and satellite data show the jet carrying 239 passengers and crew veered far off course on March 8 for unknown reasons during its flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing. Analysis indicates it would have run out of fuel in the remote section of ocean where the search has been focused. Not one piece of debris has been found since the massive multinational hunt began.
Australia, Malaysia vow to keep searching to solve plane mystery
ReutersBy Byron Kaye | Reuters – 3 hours ago-APR 23,14-YahooNews
PERTH, Australia (Reuters) - Australia and Malaysia vowed on Wednesday to keep searching for a missing Malaysian plane despite no sign of wreckage after almost seven weeks, and as bad weather again grounded aircraft and an undersea drone neared the end of its first full mission.But Australian authorities said unidentified material washed up on the coast of Western Australia was being investigated for possible links to missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott had earlier acknowledged that the search strategy could change if seabed scans taken by the U.S. Navy drone failed to turn up a trace of the plane, which vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board."We may well re-think the search but we will not rest until we have done everything we can to solve this mystery," he said."The only way we can get to the bottom of this is to keep searching the probable impact zone until we find something or until we have searched it as thoroughly as human ingenuity allows at this time."The Bluefin-21 drone, a key component in the search after the detection of audio signals or "pings" believed to be from the plane's black box flight recorder, is due to end its first full mission in the southern Indian Ocean within days.The finding of unspecified material on the southern tip of Western Australia was the first report of suspected debris in weeks and the first since the detection of what were believed to be signals on April 4.Australian police have secured the material, found 10 km (six miles) east of the town of Augusta, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) overseeing the search said in a statement.No description of the material was provided and Malaysian officials said they had not verified the report.The Australian and Malaysian governments are under growing pressure to show what lengths they are prepared to go to in order to give closure to the grieving families of those on board flight MH370.Malaysian acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the search authorities would need to "regroup and restrategise" if nothing was found in the current search zone, but said the search would "always continue"."I can confirm in fact we are increasing the assets that are available for deep-sea search," he told a news conference in Kuala Lumpur, adding that the government was seeking help from state oil company Petronas, which has expertise in deep-sea exploration.Nearly two months after the jetliner vanished, Hishammuddin announced that Malaysia's cabinet had approved the formation of an independent international investigation team to probe the causes of the baffling incident.
INVESTIGATION LAUNCHED
The experts appointed to the panel would be named next week, and the investigation could begin a week later, Malaysian officials said."It's imperative for the government to form an independent team of investigators which is not only competent, transparent but also highly credible," Hishammuddin said. "As I've said since the beginning, we have nothing to hide."Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation will take the lead in the investigation to be carried out under United Nations rules, sources have told Reuters.But its relative lack of experience means it is likely to rely on foreign agencies, with some experts predicting a key role for Australia, which is coordinating search efforts.Malaysian police are conducting their own criminal investigation into why the Boeing jet veered thousands of miles off course on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.In a sign of the families' growing desperation for answers, a group purporting to be relatives of the missing flight's passengers published a letter to Hishammuddin, urging the government to investigate old media reports that the plane landed in Kandahar, Afghanistan."It is high time that the government should start thinking out of the box by exploring and re-examining all leads, new and old," said the letter, published on Facebook on Wednesday.Authorities suspended the air search for the second day in a row on Wednesday due to heavy rain, low cloud and big seas."Current weather conditions are resulting in heavy seas and poor visibility and are making air search activities ineffective and potentially hazardous," the JACC said, adding 12 ships would continue to help with the operation.The Bluefin-21 was scouring a 10 sq km (4 sq mi) stretch of seabed some 2,000 km (1,200 miles) northwest of the Australian city of Perth. Search officials have said that once its current mission is finished, they will redeploy the submarine to other areas yet to be determined.(Additional reporting Matt Siegel in Sydney, Al-Zaquan Amer Hamzah and Yantoultra Ngui in Kuala Lumpur; Editing by Stuart Grudgings and Ron Popeski)
