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Najib missing in search for Flight MH370, says Anwar

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has hit out again at Prime Minister Najib Razak, accusing him of being absent over the past few days as the search for the missing Flight MH370 continued.

In an interview with Australia’s Radio National on its late night programme last Friday, Anwar said Mr Najib had failed to “be seen to be hands on” in the incident which has captured global attention.

“In fact, there’s a standard joke here: The disappearance of the flight and the disappearance of the Prime Minister for the first nine days,” said Anwar.

“Then he appeared only to give a statement, refusing to entertain questions,” Anwar added, referring to Mr Najib’s presence at the press conference on March 15 to announce that the search and rescue operation in the South China Sea had been called off. Mr Najib, who read from a prepared statement, had left without taking questions.

Anwar has been found guilty of sodomising his former aide in 2008, after a ruling by the Appeals Court on March 7 sentenced him to five years in prison. The move was denounced by his opponents as an attempt to end his political career.

Anwar also said the government should have appointed a “competent” person, whether a minister or senior official, to deal with questions over the missing flight.

Malaysia has come under severe criticism from relatives of those on board the missing aircraft, as well as international media and Chinese government officials, over its handling of the crisis. Agencies

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Kedalaman Lautan Hindi Mampu Mencapai 7 Kali Ketinggian KLCC



USAHA mencari pesawat Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370 merupakan satu misi yang amat sukar kerana keadaan lautan berkenaan yang selalunya bergelora selain ia merupakan laluan terpencil.

Kawasan lautan itu jarang dilalui oleh kapal dagang kerana keadaan perairan dan cuacanya yang selalu tidak menentu.

Sehingga kini operasi mencari dan menyelamat (SAR) bagi mengesan pesawat berkenaan diadakan dengan giat di sekitar kawasan itu yang juga berada dalam kawasan mencari di koridor selatan selain operasi SAR di koridor utara.

Jika pesawat jenis Boeing 777-200ER itu berada di Lautan Hindi maka untuk menemui bangkai pesawat jika ia terhempas juga amat mencabar sekali.

Lautan Hindi mempunyai purata kedalaman kira-kira 3.6km dan jika diibaratkan dengan ketinggian Menara Berkembar Petronas KLCC, kedalamannya merangkumi tujuh kali Menara KLCC.

Bangunan tertinggi di dunia iaitu Burj Al-Khalifa di Dubai, Emiriyah Arab Bersatu pula hanya berketinggian 829.8 meter.

Kedalaman purata lautan itu juga tidak dapat menyaingi ketinggian gunung tertinggi di benua Australia iaitu Gunung Kosciuszko di Taman Negara Kosciuszko di New South Wales, Australia.



Gunung itu berketinggian 2,228 meter dari paras laut.

Selepas pihak berkuasa China mengumumkan mengesan objek di kawasan perarian itu, sehingga kini pasukan SAR dari Australia masih gagal mengesan objek berkenaan.

Operasi Australia dijalankan oleh Pihak Berkuasa Keselamatan Maritim Australia (AMSA). – MYNEWSHUB.MY

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Malaysian plane drama fuels aviation security rethink

As the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 enters a third week, the piecemeal returns from one of the most intense, international searches in living memory have delivered a public and institutional shock that could force a major rethink about aviation security.
The fact that a Boeing-777 equipped with state-of-the-art location tracking technology could vanish for so long, is in itself, aviation experts say, shocking enough to compel changes in the way commercial aircraft are electronically monitored.
One priority would be to enhance tracking coverage for a plane in an emergency situation that forces it beyond the reach of conventional radar systems.
It was modern satellite imagery that pointed MH370 investigators to a remote part of the Indian Ocean 2,500 kilometres (1,500 miles) southwest of Perth, but the physical search for debris in the area had to rely on less sophisticated methods -- binoculars held to the windows of spotter planes.
If a crash site is finally located, investigators will have to rush to find the plane's crucial "black box" before it stops emitting its tracking signals.
"There's no doubt that what has gone on is one of the greatest mysteries of modern aviation and it will have an impact on the global aviation and airline industry," Jonathan Galaviz, partner at the US-based travel and aviation consultancy firm Global Market Advisors, told AFP.
"I expect there will be a real examination of the kind of recording technology we have right now in airplanes, a debate on how they are designed and how long they can last," Galaviz said.
- Live data streaming? -
"There will also be discussion about live satellite streaming of such data so that it can constantly be monitored," he added.
The separate flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder currently send pings for about 30 days -- a timespan that could well be reconsidered given the unprecedented length of the search for the Malaysian airliner.
The mystery of MH370 owes much to the abrupt nature of its "disappearance".
Nearly one hour into its flight, both its automated signalling systems ceased to function and the plane dropped off civilian radar.
The immediate assumption was of a catastrophic event that plunged the plane into the South China Sea before any distress call could be made.
But sketchy satellite and military radar showed that, in fact, the aircraft had veered sharply off course, backtracked across the Malaysian peninsula, and then flown on -- possibly for hours -- in a northerly or southerly direction.
Technology already exists for passenger jets to immediately relay the black box data via satellite, but most commercial airlines have baulked at the prospect of investing millions in such systems, as bottom lines come under pressure due to rising fuel costs and increasing competition.
Major airlines, including Malaysia Airlines, have access to the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), a digital datalink via satellite or VHS radio, for brief text messages from aircraft, but they do not compare with the parameters that the flight data recorder monitors.
In the case of Flight 370, the ACARS, which was supposed to transmit data every 30 minutes, failed to send messages after the aircraft fell off civilian radar.
- Minimising upgrade costs -
Andrew Herdman, director-general of the Asia Pacific Airlines Association, said costs for satellite-linked black boxes could be minimised by programming them to transmit data to ground controllers only when an in-flight abnormality is detected.
Such abnormalities might include the disabling of communications systems or a sudden deviation from the flight plan.
"The idea of live streaming the black boxes would also entail an enormous amount of data being transmitted on any given day and that in itself would also be a huge logistical challenge," he told AFP.
Greg Waldron, the Asia managing editor for aviation industry magazine Flightglobal, said the uptake of such technology by airlines would be a "slow and gradual process".
Airlines may move faster if leading civil aviation regulators including the US Federal Aviation Administration and the European Aviation Safety Agency decide to make such systems mandatory for their respective jurisdictions within a set deadline, he said.
"There is still a sense of shock that a modern aircraft like the Boeing 777 can just go missing, and I'm sure there will (be) more robust monitoring as we go along," he said.
Galaviz said rekindled debate over aviation security was always an important and constructive by-product of events like the disappearance of MH370.
"Aside from the tragedy of it all and the unanswered questions, perhaps at this point we need to take a step back and acknowledge that despite all of it there may be some positives that come out of it," he said.

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A three-year-old Chinese girl who is a relative of a passenger from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, seen at Metro Park Lido Hotel in Beijing, on March 22, 2014, where a meeting with Malaysian officials was held

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Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's P-3C Orion arrives to help with search operations for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 at Royal Australian Air Force Pearce Base in Perth, Australia, Sunday, March 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)

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U.S. Navy black box locator joins search for missing Malaysian plane

SYDNEY/PERTH (Reuters) - The United States Navy is moving one of its high-tech Black Box detectors closer to the search area for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane in remote seas off the Australian coast, bolstering hopes wreckage of the plane may be found soon.
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 vanished from civilian radar screens less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board on a flight to Beijing on March 8.
The so-called Towed Pinger Locator will be crucial in finding the black box of the missing jetliner if a debris field is established by an Australian-led international search team scouring an area in the southern Indian Ocean some 2,500 km (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth.
"If debris is found we will be able to respond as quickly as possible since the battery life of the black box's pinger is limited," Commander Chris Budde, U.S. Seventh Fleet Operations Officer, said in an emailed statement.
Attention and resources in the search for the Boeing 777 have shifted in recent days from an initial focus north of the equator to an increasingly narrowed stretch of icy sea in the southern Indian Ocean.
Chinese and Japanese military aircraft were joining a 10-strong international fleet of planes scouring the area for the first time on Monday.
A flotilla of Chinese ships, including the icebreaker Xuelong, or Snow Dragon, is also making its way south.
Budde stressed that bringing in the black box detector, which is towed behind a vessel at slow speeds and can pick up "pings" from a black box to a maximum depth of 20,000 feet, was a precautionary measure.
Similarly, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss stressed the challenges of the search.
"It's a lot of water to look for just perhaps a tiny object," Truss told Australian Broadcasting Corp. Radio.
"Today we expect the weather to deteriorate and the forecast ahead is not that good, so it's going to be a challenge, but we will stick at it," he said.
Two Chinese military Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft, two Australian P3 Orions and two ultra-long range civilian jets were in the early search party on Monday. Another ultra-long range jet, a U.S. Navy P8 Poseidon and two Japanese P3 Orions were due to depart later in the day.
FLOATING OBJECTS
Australia was analyzing French radar images showing potential floating debris that were taken some 850 kms (530 miles) north of the current search area.
"We only recently got this information and we are still examining it," an AMSA spokeswoman told Reuters by telephone. Malaysia said it received the images on Sunday and passed them on to Australia.
"We are taking it into account but at this stage we are still focused on the same search area," the spokeswoman said, contradicting earlier comments from Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss that the search area had been expanded north to take into account the French sighting.
Australia has used a U.S. satellite image of two floating objects to frame its search area.
The search planes are zeroing in on the areas around where the earlier sightings were made in an effort to find the object identified by China and other small debris, including a wooden pallet, spotted by a search plane on Saturday.
China said the object it had seen on the satellite image was 22 meters long (74ft) and 13 meters (43ft) wide.
It could not be determined easily from the blurred images whether the objects were the same as those detected by Australia, but the Chinese photograph could depict a cluster of smaller objects, said a senior military officer from one of the 26 nations involved in the search.
The wing of a Boeing 777-200ER is approximately 27 meters long and 14 meters wide at its base, according to estimates derived from publicly available scale drawings. Its fuselage is 63.7 meters long by 6.2 meters wide.
NASA said it would use high-resolution cameras aboard satellites and the International Space Station to look for possible crash sites in the Indian Ocean. The U.S. space agency is also examining archived images collected by instruments on its Terra and Aqua environmental satellites, said NASA spokesman Allard Beutel.
"Our satellites and space-based cameras are designed for long-term scientific data gathering and Earth observation. They're really not meant to look for a missing aircraft, and obviously NASA isn't a lead agency in this effort. But we're trying to support the search, if possible," Beutel said.
Truss said the aircraft flying on Monday would be focused on searching by sight, rather than radar, which can be tricky to use because of the high seas and wind in the area. Civilian aircraft, which can carry more people, have joined the search.
HIJACK OR SABOTAGE?
Investigators believe someone on the flight shut off the plane's communications systems. Partial military radar tracking showed it turning west and re-crossing the Malay Peninsula, apparently under the control of a skilled pilot.
That has led them to focus on hijacking or sabotage, but investigators have not ruled out technical problems. Faint electronic "pings" detected by a commercial satellite suggested it flew for another six hours or so, but could do no better than place its final signal on one of two vast arcs north and south.
The lack of solid news has meant a prolonged and harrowing wait for families of the passengers, who have complained in both Beijing and Kuala Lumpur about the absence of information.
A Malaysian statement said a "high-level" team briefed relatives in Beijing on Sunday in a meeting that lasted more than six hours.
While the southern arc is now the main focus of the search, Malaysia says efforts will continue in both corridors until confirmed debris are found.
"We still don't even know for certain if the aircraft is in this area," Truss said of the southern Indian Ocean search.
"We're just clutching at whatever little piece of information that comes along to try to find the place we can concentrate the efforts."
(Additional reporting by Irene Klotz; Writing by Jane Wardell; Editing by Paul Tait)

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One of two Japanese Government P-3 aircraft arrives at RAAF base Pearce March 23, 2014 in Bullsbrook near Perth. REUTERS/Jason Reed

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Search for missing jet exposes limit of China’s power

BEIJING — China has not held back in forcing the pace of the search for the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. It has deployed 21 satellites and a flotilla of naval ships. It has despatched investigators to Malaysia, run background checks on the Chinese passengers and scoured radar images of its vast western regions. Every day it has cajoled, chided and criticised Malaysian officials.

And still it has come up empty-handed. Two weeks after the plane vanished on an overnight flight to Beijing, no trace of the Boeing 777 jet or the 239 people on board, two-thirds of whom are Chinese, has been found.

The painful process of working with Malaysia in searching for the plane and investigating what went wrong in the early hours of March 8 has revealed the limits of China’s power, influence and technological and military might in the region, despite its rapid rise as a rival to the United States and American strategic dominance of the Western Pacific.

Within China, anguished relatives and friends of the passengers and their many sympathisers are pressing hard for answers, but the government finds itself helpless as Malaysia takes the lead in the search and investigation efforts, which is consistent with international norms on air disasters.

Malaysia has been keeping other nations, including China, at a distance, to the frustration of officials here, according to political observers. That tension is reflected in the frequent condemnations of Malaysia that have appeared in the Chinese state news media.

“If you don’t push them, they won’t move,” Professor Zhu Zhenming, a scholar of South-east Asia at the Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, said about the Malaysian authorities. “It’s mostly to do with their administrative management capabilities, but also their culture.”

That sense of frustration has come through even in official Chinese remarks that were intended to be diplomatic. On Tuesday, Mr Huang Huikang, the Chinese Ambassador to Malaysia, told reporters in Kuala Lumpur, that “the Malaysian government has insufficient capabilities, technologies and experience in responding to the MH370 incident, but they did their best”.

In some ways, the complaints reinforce a belief that many Chinese have long held: That their political culture is superior to those of South-east Asian nations.

“The image of the Malaysian government has dropped in the eyes of the Chinese government and the Chinese people,” said Dr Bo Zhiyue, a scholar of Chinese politics at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore. He said the episode had reinforced the view among Chinese that their system “is not inferior to other systems, and is in some ways superior to other systems in its efficiency”.

Like China, Malaysia has been governed by the same political party for decades, but there are important differences. Malaysia has robust opposition parties, although its military has not played a major role in domestic politics. That means that Malaysian commanders have less frequent contact with civilian leaders than their counterparts in some other Asian nations, including China, where Mr Xi, Chief of the Communist Party, directs the military.

Some political analysts have said that if the Malaysian military had closer ties to civilian officials, there might have been earlier agreement on how to interpret and share military radar data that tracked an aircraft, now believed to be Flight MH370, flying west-ward to the Indian Ocean rather than going down near its original course across the Gulf of Thailand. The late announcement of the radar data embarrassed Malaysia and angered many nations.

Chinese officials are under intense pressure to solve the mystery of Flight MH370 in part because of the timing of its disappearance, only one week after attackers went on a knifing rampage in a train station in south-west China, killing 29 people. Chinese officials said the rampage was a terrorist act and the attackers appeared to have come from Xinjiang, the western province where violence has been mounting between ethnic Uighurs and the ruling ethnic Han.

Many people initially thought that MH370’s disappearance was another act of terrorism, possibly committed by Uighurs, though US officials have said they believe terrorists are probably not involved. China’s own investigation of its citizens on the plane found that none had any ties to militancy, including an ethnic Uighur who was on board.

Nevertheless, both the train-station massacre and the flight’s disappearance are national traumas arising from events beyond the control of the Chinese authorities, said Dr Bo.

“It’s a little sensitive and it seems a little embarrassing,” he said.

“They need to make an extra effort to make it look like they’re taking it seriously and commit resources to find an answer to the problem.”

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TAKZIAH MALAYSIA : MH370 DISAHKAN TERHEMPAS DI SELATAN LAUTAN HINDI MENGORBANKAN KESELURUHAN PENUMPANG DAN ANAK KAPAL - ALFATIHAH

Baru sahaja sebentar tadi sidang akhbar dari YAB Perdana Menteri akan pengesahan #MH370 yang berlepas dari KLIA ke Beijing telah menuju ke arah Lautan Hindi dan terhempas di Selatan Lautan Hindi. Dari maklumat awal dari media BBC, tiada mangsa yang terselamat.

Dalam tempoh 1 bulan ini, kita didatangi pelbagai cubaan dan dugaan di dalam negara. Dalam tempoh ini juga, kebanyakan kita mula merasa Allah itu lebih besar dari yang biasanya kita rasa. Tempoh ini juga, sebahagian kita yang sering melupakan Allah mula kembali mengingatinya. Tatkala ramai manusia sudah tiada apa lagi untuk diharap, barulah wajah dihadap ke qiblat, tangan ditadah ke langit, air mata jatuh merayu rahmat Allah dan barulah ALLAH itu dirasakan sangat berkuasa dan kita kelihatan sangat kerdil.

Malaysia bersedih, Malaysia berkabung dengan suara doa-doa mula menjadi sirna, hanya mengharap keajaiban yang semakin malap, semalap pelita minyak di tengah hujan lebat.

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MAS mohon maaf kepada keluarga
Kuala Lumpur : Malaysia Airlines (MAS) melahirkan kekesalan dan memohon maaf kepada ahli keluarga dan waris penumpang serta kru penerbangan MH370 yang disahkan telah berakhir di selatan Lautan Hindi.
Menurut MAS dalam kenyataannya malam ini, Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak telah mengumumkan penerbangan MH370 yang berakhir di selatan Lautan Hindi berdasarkan data analisis terbaru satelit "MENCADANGKAN" pesawat itu jatuh di selatan Lautan Hindi.
“Bagi pihak kami, Malaysia Airlines dan seluruh rakyat Malaysian, doa kami bersama semua orang yang tersayang buat semua 226 penumpang dan 13 sahabat serta rakan sekerja pada saat yang amat memilukan ini.
“Kami tahu, tiada kata-kata yang kami atau sesiapa saja dapat diungkapkan berupaya meredakan kesakitan anda. Kami akan terus membantu dan menyokong anda, sebagaimana kami telah laksanakan sejak hari pertama MH370 hilang pada awal pagi 8 Mac ketika terbang dari Kuala Lumpur ke Beijing.
“Operasi mencari pelbagai negara akan diteruskan bagi mencari jawapan bagi pelbagai persoalan yang masih menjadi tanda tanya. Di samping pencarian MH370, siasatan yang intensif akan dijalankan bagi mencari jawapannya.
“Kami memberi jaminan bahawa Malaysia Airlines akan terus memberi sokongan buat anda dalam menghadapi kesukaran pada minggu dan bulan mendatang.
“Sekali lagi, kami mengucapkan ingatan yang tulus, doa dan takziah kepada setiap yang terkesan akibat tragedi ini,” menurut kenyataan itu.
Artikel ini disiarkan pada : 2014/03/24


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Source: Malaysia Airlines

Tuesday, March 25, 12:30 AM MYT +0800 Malaysia Airlines MH370 Flight Incident - Media Statement 24

It is with deep sadness that Malaysia Airlines earlier this evening had to confirm to the families of those on board Flight MH370 that it must now be assumed the flight had been lost. As the Prime Minister said, respect for the families is essential at this difficult time. And it is in that spirit that we informed the majority of the families in advance of the Prime Minister’s statement in person and by telephone. SMSs were used only as an additional means of communicating with the families. Those families have been at the heart of every action the company has taken since the flight disappeared on 8th March and they will continue to be so. When Malaysia Airlines receives approval from the investigating authorities, arrangements will be made to bring the families to the recovery area and until that time, we will continue to support the ongoing investigation.

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Kenyataan penuh MAS

Malaysia Airlines dengan penuh rasa kesal ingin memaklumkan bahawa kami terpaksa menganggap bahawa MH370 berakhir di selatan Lautan Hindi. Seperti yang akan anda dengar tidak lama lagi daripada Perdana Menteri Malaysia, analisis baru data satelit membayangkan pesawat itu jatuh di selatan Lautan Hindi.

Bagi pihak semua kami di Malaysia Airlines dan seluruh rakyat Malaysia, doa kami kepada semua insan tersayang kepada 227 penumpang dan 12 sahabat serta rakan kerja kami pada saat-saat yang sukar ini.

Kami tahu tidak ada kata-kata yang boleh kami atau sesiapa pun ucapkan untuk meringankan kepedihan itu. Kami akan terus memberikan bantuan dan sokongan kepada anda, seperti yang telah kami lakukan sejak MH370 mula-mula hilang pada awal pagi 8 Mac lalu semasa dalam penerbangan dari Kuala Lumpur ke Beijing.

Operasi mencari yang sedang dijalankan oleh pelbagai negara akan diteruskan sementara kita mencari jawapan kepada persoalan yang masih belum berjawab. Di samping usaha mengesan MH370, ada juga satu siasatan menyeluruh yang kami harapkan akan memberikan jawapan itu.

Kami juga ingin memberi jaminan bahawa Malaysia Airlines akan terus memberikan anda sokongan penuh untuk mengharungi minggu-minggu dan bulan-bulan yang akan datang.

Sekali lagi, dengan penuh rendah hati kami panjangkan ingatan, doa dan takziah yang penuh ikhlas kepada semua yang terjejas dengan tragedi itu.


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China minta data satelit daripada Malaysia

BEIJING: Kerajaan China meminta Malaysia menyerahkan kepadanya semua analisis data satelit yang berkaitan dengan kehilangan pesawat Malaysia Airlines, lapor agensi berita Reuters.

Permintaan itu disampaikan oleh Timbalan Menteri Luar China, Xie Hangsheng kepada Duta Besar Malaysia ke China, Datuk Iskandar Sarudin malam tadi.

Xie mengadakan pertemuan dengan duta Malaysia itu selepas Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak mengumumkan penerbangan pesawat Boeing 777-200 "berakhir" di kawasan selatan Lautan Hindi, berdasarkan kepada data terbaru satelit.


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Pesawat MH370 disahkan hilang di kawasan selatan Lautan Hindi

KUALA LUMPUR: Pesawat Malaysia Airlines penerbangan MH370 yang gagal dikesan sejak 8 Mac lalu disahkan hilang di kawasan selatan Lautan Hindi di barat Perth, Australia.

Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak mengumumkan berita itu dalam satu sidang khas yang disiarkan secara langsung dari Pusat Dagangan Dunita Putra (PWTC) malam tadi.

Kata Perdana Menteri, kedudukan terakhir penerbangan MH370 itu didasarkan kepada maklumat daripada data satelit yang diberikan oleh syarikat Britain, Inmarsat dan Bahagian Penyiasatan Nahas Udara United Kingdom (AAIB) yang mengesahkan pesawat Boeing 777-200 itu terbang ke jalur selatan isyarat terakhir yang dikesan daripada pesawat itu.

"Ini kawasan yang terpencil, jauh daripada mana-mana tapak pendaratan yang munasabah.

"Oleh itu, dengan rasa penuh dukacita dan kesal, saya memaklumkan bahawa, berdasarkan kepada data baru ini, penerbangan MH370 berakhir di selatan Lautan Hindi," kata Najib.

Sementara itu, MAS dalam satu kenyataan memaklumkan akan terus memberikan bantuan dan sokongan kepada ahli keluarga penumpang dan anak kapal yang terlibat seperti yang ia lakukan sejak pesawat ini hilang.

MAS juga memaklumkan operasi mencari dan siasatan menyeluruh akan diteruskan untuk mencari jawapan kepada misteri kehilangan pesawat miliknya itu.

"Sekali lagi, dengan rendah hati, ingatan, doa dan takziah kami untuk semua yang terjejas dengan tragedi ini," kata kenyataan itu.

Dalam pada itu, Najib memberitahu satu sidang media akan diadakan pada Selasa dengan maklumat yang lebih lanjut.

"Pada masa ini, kami ingin memaklumkan kepada anda perkembangan terbaru ini pada kesempatan yang terdekat. Kami berkongsi maklumat ini dengan komitmen kepada keterbukaan dan rasa hormat kepada keluarga, dua prinsip yang menggarisbawahi penyiasatan ini," katanya.

Menurut Najib lagi, Malaysia Airlines telah memaklumkan perkembangan baru ini kepada ahli keluarga penumpang dan anak kapal.

"Bagi mereka, beberapa minggu kebelakangan ini cukup menyedihkan; saya tahu berita tentunya lebih sedih lagi," katanya.

Najib juga menyeru kepada media untuk menghormati ruang peribadi ahli keluarga yang terlibat dan memberikan kepada mereka ruang yang sangat diperlukan pada masa yang sukar ini.

Pesawat penerbangan MH370 membawa 239 orang, termasuk 38 penumpang dan 12 anak kapal warga Malaysia. Operasi mengesan pesawat ini digerakkan sejak ia hilang pada awal pagi 8 Mac lalu dan disertai oleh lebih 20 buah negara.

Siasatan awal mendapati pesawat yang hilang itu telah dilencongkan dengan sengaja oleh seseorang yang memandunya. Bagaimanapun, pelbagai spekulasi dan teori konspirasi timbul kerana sistem komunikasi dengan pesawat itu terputus dan tiada bukti-bukti kukuh atau petunjuk mengenai kehilangan pesawat itu.

Antara teori yang dikemukakan dalam masa pencarian sepanjang 17 hari lalu oleh pakar dan penganalisis penerbangan termasuk rampasan, sabotaj oleh juruterbang serta kemungkinan pesawat itu mengalami masalah sehingga menyebabkan semua anak kapalnya tidak sedarkan diri dan pesawat itu terbang sendiri sehingga kehabisan minyak.

Pesawat penerbangan MH370 membuat hubungan terakhir dengan pusat kawalan trafik udara semasa berada di Laut China Selatan di sebuah kawasan yang terletak antara sempadan Malaysia dan Vietnam. Ia kemudian dikesan berpatah balik dari laluan asalnya dan terbang selama beberapa jam.

Usaha mengesan pesawat itu kemudiannya digerakkan di dua jalur di sebelah utara yang menganjur dari sempadan Kazakhstan dan Turkmenistan sehingga ke utara Thailand serta dari Indonesia sampai ke selatan Lautan Hindi.


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(10 Gambar) Raut Wajah pilu keluarga mangsa selepas pengumuman Tragedi #MH370

Tidak dapat dibayangkan bagaimanakah perasaan keluarga penumpang MH370 setelah dimaklumkan mengenai berita terbaru pesawat tersebut yang disahkan berakhir di Lautan Hindi, Barat Perth.

Keluarga mangsa warga China nampaknya lebih emosional apabila meratapi nasib kehilangan ahli keluarga mereka malam tadi.

Berikut beberapa gambar yang sempat dirakam menunjukkan suasana hiba kaum keluarga penumpang MH370.

Takziah dan Al-Fatihah.

Selamat Omar, ayah kepada jurutera MAS, Mohd Khairul Amri Selamat yang turut berada di dalam pesawat MH370 sebak sebaik sahaja menerima perkhabaran buruk itu.

Seorang ahli keluarga mangsa warga China di Beijing pengsan ketika dimaklumkan wakil MAS dalam perjumpaan tergempar malam tadi. Beliau terpaksa diusung keluar dari dewan dan dibawah ke hospital terdekat.

Anak kepada Ketua Pramugara, Maira Elizabeth Nari seolah-olah pasrah menerima berita sedih itu. Melalui twitternya, Maira mengatakan bahawa tuhan lebih menyayangi ayahnya.

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Inmarsat gives details on how flight MH370 was tracked

THE location of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 was narrowed down through the detailed study of hourly 'pings' said satellite company Inmarsat on Monday.

The increased complexity in charting out this information was also the reason why it took two weeks before any solid conclusions could be reached, it added.

According to a report from The Telegraph, the MH370 continued to send out hourly 'pings' despite the main aircraft communications system being turned off. These signals are normally used to synchronise timing information.

By studying them, Inmarsat was able to determine that the plane flew for at least five hours after leaving Malaysian airspace, and that it could potentially have taken two routes.

Chris McLaughlin, senior vice president of external affairs at Inmarsat explained to The Telegraph, "Effectually we looked at the Doppler effect, which is the change in frequency, due to the movement of a satellite in its orbit. What that then gave us was a predicted path for the northerly route and a predicted path the southerly route."

Inmarsat continued to crunch such data even after it relayed its initial findings to Malaysian authorities on March 12.

Since then, the data was compared with other aircraft on similar routes, and Inmarsat was able to establish an "extraordinary matching" between its predicted path to the south, and readings it received from other planes.

This information, coupled with the plane's assumed speed, narrowed the search area down to 3 per cent of the southern corridor.

"We worked out where the last ping was, and we knew that the plane must have run out of fuel before the next automated ping, but we don't know what speed the aircraft was flying at - we assumed about 450 knots," said Mr McLaughlin.

"We can't know when the fuel actually ran out, we can't know whether the plane plunged or glided, and we can't know whether the plane at the end of the time in the air was flying more slowly because it was on fumes," he added.

The analysis was passed on after it was peer reviewed by  Boeing and others in the UK air industry, reported Sky News.

This development led Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to conclude on Monday that the Boeing 777, which disappeared more than two weeks ago, crashed thousands of miles away in the southern Indian Ocean.

The cause of the crash remains a mystery and the search for the plane continues.