The Malaysian government has repeatedly turned down assistance from Interpol to assist in its investigation of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a senior Western law enforcement official told ABC News today.
That offer has since been repeated several times and declined each time.
"It's the old pre-9/11 approach: close-hold information, don't share anything," the official said.
Law enforcement officials are now worried that critical investigative time has been lost and leads could well have dried up as sources of information could have dispersed in the last week. The FBI also hasn't been invited by the Malaysian government to help on the ground, sources said.
"Malaysia Airlines has shared all available information with the relevant authorities since the moment we learned that the aircraft had disappeared," read a statement from the airline. "This is truly an unprecedented situation, for Malaysia Airlines and for the entire aviation industry."
Police also visited the house of Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the 53-year-old pilot of the missing plane. A married father of three grown children with more than 18,000 hours of experience in the air, he has been described as an affluent aviation buff, with a home in a gated community that police spent about two hours inside.
15/03/14 Gloria Rivera/Josh Margolin/Pierre Thomas/Dan Good/Good Morning America/ABC News
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That offer has since been repeated several times and declined each time.
"It's the old pre-9/11 approach: close-hold information, don't share anything," the official said.
Law enforcement officials are now worried that critical investigative time has been lost and leads could well have dried up as sources of information could have dispersed in the last week. The FBI also hasn't been invited by the Malaysian government to help on the ground, sources said.
"Malaysia Airlines has shared all available information with the relevant authorities since the moment we learned that the aircraft had disappeared," read a statement from the airline. "This is truly an unprecedented situation, for Malaysia Airlines and for the entire aviation industry."
Police also visited the house of Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the 53-year-old pilot of the missing plane. A married father of three grown children with more than 18,000 hours of experience in the air, he has been described as an affluent aviation buff, with a home in a gated community that police spent about two hours inside.
15/03/14 Gloria Rivera/Josh Margolin/Pierre Thomas/Dan Good/Good Morning America/ABC News
