 KUALA LUMPUR, April 15 ― Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said today it was not essential for Malaysia to gain custody of the “black boxes” from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The defence minister added that the primary concern was to discover the facts about what happened aboard the plane that went missing on March 8 with 239 people on board. “It is finding out the truth and in order to find out the truth, definitely we have to reveal what is in the black box, there is no question of it not being released,” he told reporters at the Putra World Trade Centre. This is despite the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) saying that Malaysia, where the missing plane was registered in, is obliged to launch an investigation and secure the wreckage. Hishammuddin, who is also the acting transport minister, said two days ago that Attorney General (AG) Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail was in the UK to meet with relevant agencies to discuss legal matters pertaining to data extraction from Flight MH370’s black box. Today, the minister said Abdul Gani was also seeking advice on the legal implications of the plane's disappearance as requested by the Malaysian Cabinet. Hishammuddin said the government had to tread carefully as it may face massive diplomatic and legal hurdles because over a dozen nations were involved in the search operation. “That is why we have established these committees so that these responsibilities can be divided amongst those people who have the opportunity to get the best expert advice,” he said. An unmanned submersible deployed in the hunt for Flight MH370 made a second mission to the remote Indian Ocean seabed today. Its first attempt yesterday was aborted due to the depth of the search area surpassing its operating limits, officials said. The sub is loaded with sonar equipment to map the ocean floor. The Joint Agency Coordination Centre, headed by Australia, reportedly said that the six hours of data gathered by the sub, Bluefin-21, is currently being extracted and analysed. MMail
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