Malaysian authorities have asked 25 countries to support the hunt for a missing passenger jet as it prepared to extend the search to an area stretching from Kazakhstan in the north to the two-mile deep waters off Australia in the south.
“The search area has been significantly expanded and the nature of the search has changed,” Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said at a press conference today in Kuala Lumpur “From focusing mainly on shallow seas, we are now looking at large tracts of land, crossing 11 countries, as well as deep, remote oceans.”
Satellite transmissions that weren’t turned off along with other communications systems showed Malaysian Airline Flight 370 operated for almost seven hours after last making contact with air traffic controllers on March 8, Malaysian Prime Minister Razak Najibsaid yesterday. That may have taken the Boeing Co. 777-200 more than 3,000 miles from where it was last tracked west of Malaysia and pushed it to the limits of its fuel load if it was airborne the whole period.
It is possible that the radars could have picked up a signal from the plane while it was on the ground as long as the electricity was on, said Civil Aviation Chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman. Malaysia has not received any contact from any groups making demands over the plane, he said.
Among the countries Malaysia is now asking for assistance are Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, China, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and France, the Transport Ministry said in the statement. Malaysia is also asking the U.S., China and France for additional radar data to try to narrow the search area.
16/03/14 Andrew Davis, Alan Levin and Liau Y-Sing/BloomBerg Business Week
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“The search area has been significantly expanded and the nature of the search has changed,” Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said at a press conference today in Kuala Lumpur “From focusing mainly on shallow seas, we are now looking at large tracts of land, crossing 11 countries, as well as deep, remote oceans.”
Satellite transmissions that weren’t turned off along with other communications systems showed Malaysian Airline Flight 370 operated for almost seven hours after last making contact with air traffic controllers on March 8, Malaysian Prime Minister Razak Najibsaid yesterday. That may have taken the Boeing Co. 777-200 more than 3,000 miles from where it was last tracked west of Malaysia and pushed it to the limits of its fuel load if it was airborne the whole period.
It is possible that the radars could have picked up a signal from the plane while it was on the ground as long as the electricity was on, said Civil Aviation Chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman. Malaysia has not received any contact from any groups making demands over the plane, he said.
Among the countries Malaysia is now asking for assistance are Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, China, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and France, the Transport Ministry said in the statement. Malaysia is also asking the U.S., China and France for additional radar data to try to narrow the search area.
16/03/14 Andrew Davis, Alan Levin and Liau Y-Sing/BloomBerg Business Week
