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WRAPUP 1-U.S. official says MH370 search likely to last for years
BY MATT SIEGEL AND BYRON KAYE
SYDNEY/PERTH, Australia April 25 Fri Apr 25, 2014 1:35am EDT
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(Reuters) - The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is likely to drag on for years, a senior U.S. defence official said on Friday, as an underwater search for any trace of the plane's wreckage off west Australia appeared to have failed.

The official, who declined to be identified because he is not authorised to comment on the search effort, said two weeks of scouring the Indian Ocean floor with a U.S. Navy submersible drone had turned up no wreckage.

He said the search for the jetliner, which vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board, would now enter a much harder phase of scouring broader areas of the ocean near where the plane is believed to have crashed.

"We went all in on this small area and didn't find anything. Now you've got to go back to the big area," the official told Reuters.

"And now you're talking years."

The undersea drone Bluefin-21 is expected on Friday to finish what may be the last of its 16-hour trips to depths of more than 4.5km (2.8 miles), searching a 10 square km (6.2 square mile) patch of seabed about 3,200 km (2,000 miles) northwest of the Australian city of Perth.

Australian search officials said that despite it having completed 95 percent of its target search are, the remote controlled submarine had failed to turn up any sign of the plane.

Authorities had identified the area as their strongest lead in determining the plane's final resting place after detecting what they suspected was a signal, or "ping", from the plane's black box recorder on April 4.

Although the most promising efforts have been focused underwater, the air and surface search continued on Friday with up to eight military aircraft and 10 ships working on visual searches of an area of about 49,000 square km (19,000 square miles).

But the U.S. official said Malaysia would now have to decide how to proceed, including whether to bring in more underwater drones, even with the understanding that the search could continue for years without a refined search area.

"It would have been nice to find it, but it would have been like on the first play of the game throwing an 80 yard bomb for a touchdown, and that just doesn't happen an awful lot," the official said.

FAMILIES INCREASINGLY FRUSTRATED

Malaysia has been under growing international pressure to improve its disclosure about its investigation into the disappearance of the plane, which was on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it vanished.

Prime Minister Najib Razak told CNN on Thursday that his government would make public a preliminary report into the plane's disappearance next week.

The network did not specify which parties Malaysia intended to give the report to or what information was expected to be contained in it.

Underscoring frustration at the lack of progress, several dozen family members of Chinese passengers on board gathered outside the Malaysian embassy in Beijing in the early hours of Friday, prompting a heavy police presence.

"Whenever we ask questions, the airline people tell us it is the responsibility of the government, the investigation, the search and everything are taken charge of by the government, so they cannot answer any questions," Steve Wang, a spokesman for the families, told reporters.

"In this way, the government just avoids their duties."

Despite the seemingly discouraging news on Friday, no one involved in the search effort would publicly discuss the possibility of calling and end to the operations.

Australian Navy Chief Ray Griggs, speaking to reporters in Hong Kong, said there were still options available for moving forward.

"If the rest of the search doesn't find anything initially, there might be a further search in the same area with different equipment," he said.

"But that's something the three governments need to work at," he said, referring to Malaysia, China and Australia.

(Reporting by Byron Kaye in PERTH and Matt Siegel in SYDNEY; Additional reporting by Ben Blanchard and Michael Martina in Beijing, Reuters TV; Editing by Robert Birsel)

 

[sochi2014]

Will Matland Garmen be bankrupted by MH370? LOL!

 

[Sinkie]

Will Matland Garmen be bankrupted by MH370? LOL!

In fact, no.........I'll be worried if MAS is bankrupted.......

Trust me, it will live and the pockets of all those involved in the cover-up will become millionaires all over again....

 

[syed putra]

Will Matland Garmen be bankrupted by MH370? LOL!

Please lah. The cost of search and rescue is peanuts. Now maybe, they will utilise home grown assets to find the plane. Malaysia has rov's, underwater support vessels like australia's ocean shield etc. Its just that the gomen did not realise the capability of their oil and gas ontractors.

 

[Liquigas]

Not to worry lah, if need be cash rich PETRONAS the most profitable company in Asia will be roped in to perform national service ....

 

[winners]

I would say those Chink families are really taking advantage of the situation. Frankly, even in the other civilian air disasters prior to this and involving casualty from nationals other than China, did the family members of those other countries acted in the same pathetic and despicable manner as the Chinks are presently?

 

[syed putra]

I would say those Chink families are really taking advantage of the situation. Frankly, even in the other civilian air disasters prior to this and involving casualty from nationals other than China, did the family members of those other countries acted in the same pathetic and despicable manner as the Chinks are presently?

If the same happened to say qantas or british airways, the chinkos will behave. But unfortunately it was MAS, an airline managed by an inferior race. So the chinese behave despicably.
The mongols too were thought to be inferior and barbaric. So there was no choice but to invade,rape and pillage.

 

[我爸是李肛=Ass Loong]

Tua Kee already this bill is a bomb who is paying?


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MH370: 'We haven't found anything anywhere'
Tony Abbott says he's "baffled and disappointed" no debris has been found, as the search for MH370 shifts focus.
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The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will enter a new phase after 52 days of searching failed to find any sign of the plane wreckage, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced.

On Monday, Mr Abbott said it was highly unlikely that any debris from the plane would be found on the ocean surface.

But Mr Abbott defended the search operation in the southern Indian Ocean, saying authorities remain confident that signals detected weeks ago were from a black box recorder.


"Most difficult search in human history": Prime Minister Tony Abbott addresses the media with the chief of the Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Speaking in Canberra, Mr Abbott said the "most difficult search in human history"*would switch its focus to underwater operations over an expanded area –*roughly 700 kilometres by 80 kilometres.

The Bluefin-21 submersible, which has been criticised as unreliable, will still be used to search the ocean floor, along with specialised sonar equipment towed by ships that will scan the seabed for wreckage.

"We will do*everything we humanly can,*everything we reasonably can,*to solve this mystery. We will*not let people down," Mr Abbott said.

"While the*search will be moving to a new*phase in coming weeks, it*certainly is not ending.

"By this stage, 52 days into the search, most material would have become waterlogged and sunk.

"With the distances involved, all of the aircraft are operating at close to the limit of sensible and safe operation. Therefore, we are moving from the current phase to a phase which is focused on searching the ocean floor over a much larger area."

The new search phase will cost "in the order of $60 million", Mr Abbott said.*

MH370 vanished on March 8 carrying 239 people, including six Australians.

It would be a "terrible outcome"*for the families of those on board if the plane was not found, Mr Abbott said.*

Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, who has been co-ordinating the search, said the revised search could take up to eight months to complete.

He said searchers were still confident they were searching in the right area.

"If everything goes*perfectly, I would say we will*be doing well if we do it in*eight months," he said.

"But then you have*issues, potential issues, with*weather, potential issues with equipment. Witness what's*happened with the 'Bluefin-21', a number of teething problems with it."

Mr Abbott defended his handling of the search and his declaration at the time the signals were detected that searchers were confident they were in the right area.

"Our way of operating at*all times has been to release credible information as soon as*we've had it so that we could*be as transparent as possible," Mr Abbott said.

"We still have a considerable degree of confidence that the detections that were picked up using the equipment deployed from Ocean Shield were from a black box recorder.

"We are still baffled and disappointed that we haven't been able to find undersea wreckage based on those detections."

A preliminary report into the plane's disappearance by the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organisation has been handed to Malaysian authorities and is expected to be released to the public this week. The report is expected to recommend real-time tracking of commercial aircraft.*

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Missing MH370: Cost pressures mount as Malaysia Airlines search drags on
By PTI | 30 Apr, 2014, 05.49PM IST
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The Malaysian jetliner carrying 239 people disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing more than seven weeks ago, and huge surface and underwater searches have failed to solve the mystery of what happened.The Malaysian jetliner carrying 239 people disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing more than seven weeks ago, and huge surface and underwater searches have failed to solve the mystery of what happened.
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SYDNEY: With the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 entering a new, much longer phase, the countries involved must decide how much they are prepared to spend on the operation and what they stand to lose if they hold back.

The search is already set to be the most costly in aviation history and spending will rise significantly as underwater drones focus on a larger area of the seabed that Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Monday could take six to eight months to search.

But despite US President Barack Obama publicly promising to commit more assets, the United States appears keen to begin passing on the costs of providing sophisticated sonar equipment that will form the backbone of the expanded hunt.

That means Australia, China and Malaysia - the countries most closely involved in the operation - look set to bear the financial and logistical burden of a potentially lengthy and expensive search.

"We're already at tens of millions. Is it worth hundreds of millions?" a senior US defence official told Reuters last week. "I don't know. That's for them to decide."

He made it clear that Washington was intent on spending less from now on, making it the first major donor country to scale back its financial commitment to the search.

"We're not going to pay to perpetually use the equipment on an indefinite basis. Basically from here on out - starting next week or so - they need to pick up the contract," he said.

At least $44 million was spent on the deployment of military ships and aircraft in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea in the first month of the search, about the same as was spent on the whole underwater search for Air France's Flight AF447, which crashed into the Mid-Atlantic in 2009.

The Malaysian jetliner carrying 239 people disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing more than seven weeks ago, and huge surface and underwater searches have failed to solve the mystery of what happened.

That mystery has major implications for airline manufacturers such as Boeing, which builds the 777 model that crashed and is awaiting a verdict as to what went wrong.

 

[bakkuttay]

Must be job of a giant UFO????
Hahahaaaa....

 

[virus]

seriously the job of using coconut was free.. free one mai use, use most expensive one.


siao arh?

 

[AttilaTheHun]

Another PAP IB thread trying to discredit PM Najib.

Can't you see that Malaysia is trying her best?

 

[我爸是李肛=Ass Loong]

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The Phoenix Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Artemis being recovered onto Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield after completing a mission in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean, on April 24, 2014. -- FILE PHOTO: AFP/AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE


BY DAVID HODGKINSON AND REBECCA JOHNSTON
AS THE search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines MH370 moves into a different phase, a new, delicate issue arises: Who will pay?


On Monday, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott acknowledged that "thus far none of our efforts in the air, on the surface or under sea, have found any wreckage" of MH370, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March.


The new phase will now focus on a much larger area of the ocean floor rather than the surface, and involve commercial contractors utilising additional sonar mapping equipment, with an estimated cost of A$60 million (S$70 million).


The Australian government will seek contributions from other countries to meet that cost. However, Australian Defence Minister David Johnston has said that, while there are "some issues of costs" associated with the expanded search, "we want to say to our friends in Malaysia and China this is not about cost, we are concerned to be seen to be helping them in a most tragic circumstance".


There is no legal requirement for other countries or companies to contribute towards the cost of the search and rescue effort. It may be, however, if and when the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of MH370 become clearer, states such as Australia look to other states (Malaysia most obviously) or entities (manufacturers, for example) for contributions to the cost of the massive search and rescue effort.


In working out which countries have responsibility for search and rescue with regard to MH370, it is useful to examine a range of international treaties that might determine such responsibility in a similar way to that which determines liability for passenger injury or death on board an international flight.


The Convention on International Civil Aviation 1944 (the Chicago Convention) is one of the world's most successful treaties. To date, it has 191 states signed on, and it sets out principles and arrangements such that international civil aviation can "be developed (and proceed) in a safe and orderly manner".


Article 25 of Chicago says parties to the treaty must collaborate on "coordinated measures" in the search for missing aircraft, but is silent on the allocation of costs.


What of other potentially relevant treaties?


The 1963 Tokyo Convention determines jurisdiction over offences committed on board aircraft while that aircraft is in flight or on the surface of the high seas or of any other area outside the territory of any country.


It also defines the rights and obligations of the aircraft commander with regard to offences and acts committed on board which jeopardise the safety of the aircraft. It also defines the rights and obligations of the authorities of the place where the aircraft lands after such an offence or act has been committed. It is, however, of limited use in determining burden sharing in the context of MH370.


The 1970 Hague Convention was the result of concerted action on the part of states to combat an increase in hijacking in the late 1960s. As opposed to the Tokyo Convention, it deals more specifically with the offence of hijacking. The Hague Convention seeks to eliminate, to the extent possible, refuge for hijackers. But again, like the Tokyo Convention, it is of limited use for present purposes.


A 1971 treaty - the Montreal Convention - complements the Tokyo and Hague conventions by covering matters not dealt with in those conventions, such as acts of sabotage and unlawful acts against the safety of civil aviation. It extends the range of offences against the safety of civil aviation to cover acts likely to endanger the safety of an aircraft in service (in addition to in flight). It does not, however, contemplate how costs are apportioned when it comes to search and rescue efforts.


According to Mr Abbott, Australia "will do everything we humanly can… to solve this mystery".


And while international agreements are silent regarding either who conducts or bears the cost of international search and rescue in circumstances like those of MH370, state parties will for the moment bear their own costs.


David Hodgkinson is associate professor, Law School at University of Western Australia, and Rebecca Johnston is sessional lecturer at University of Notre Dame, both in Australia.


This article first appeared in The Conversation, a website that carries analysis by academics and researchers in Australia and Britain. (http://theconversation.com)