The search for the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared more than two years ago with hundreds aboard will be suspended if the aircraft isn’t found in the shrinking current search area, officials announced Friday.
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Officials from China, Malaysia and Australia confirmed the search will reach a hiatus if an area of the southern Indian Ocean now under investigation reveals no further information. “The aspiration to locate MH370 has not been abandoned”, it said.
“I want to emphasize that our work is continuing in analyzing data, inspecting debris and considering all new information”, Chester added. Every effort has been made.
This not only means they have been scouring the wrong patch of ocean for all this time – but that someone “must have been at the controls”. Australian Jeanette Maguire, who had family aboard, told AP that the announcement was “very hard to accept” but she knows more information is needed “because it’s costing an absolute fortune”.
Speaking in 2014 about the mystery, the wife and daughter of Mr Shah said the 53-year-old pilot had been desolate in the weeks before the aircraft’s disappearance – and refused pleas to attend marriage counselling sessions. “Based on that, we searched the area”. “I can promise them that we will not give up”.
She said no matter how bad there must be a clue.
In Selangor, family member Zurihan Yusop, 45, urged the government to issue a clearer statement on the status of the search operation for the aircraft. Whoever is holding them now, please free them. “We will never give up until they return home”.
Confidential Malaysian police documents obtained by NY show that the pilot of MH370 apparently once plotted a murder-suicide flight path similar to the one ultimately followed by the doomed plane, which vanished into the southern Indian Ocean in 2014. All those on board are presumed dead.
“Ministers acknowledged that despite the best efforts of all involved, the likelihood of finding the aircraft is fading”, a joint press release said.
Nathan wondered if the families would have to finance measures on their own.
“Should credible new information emerge which can be used to identify the specific location of the aircraft, consideration will be given in determining next steps”, the ministers said. The extended search has only turned up a few pieces of debris near East Africa. It reveals that after the plane disappeared in March of 2014, Malaysia turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation hard drives that Zaharie used to record sessions on an elaborate home-built flight simulator.
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“All debris found does not say where it came from”, Liow said.
