Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia denied today reports claiming that MH370 had skirted Indonesian airspace to avoid radar detection.
Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein told a press conference here that he had instructed Malaysia’s military chief to contact his Indonesian counterpart and that the latter confirmed this.
“It’s untrue,” he said. “They (Indonesia) confirmed they had no sighting of the plane,” he said at the conference broadcast live on Astro Awani.
Hishammuddin’s brief response, however, did not appear to directly answer the question raised by a reporter at the media conference.
Yesterday, a CNN report cited a “senior Malaysian government official” as saying that latest radar readings from neighbouring countries showed that the Boeing 777 aircraft carrying 239 people had avoided Indonesian airspace, possibly to avoid radar detection.
“What this official says is that after the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 took that left-hand turn, deviated from its path to Beijing, flew across Malaysia.... the official now says that they know from looking at radar data from neighbouring countries that the flight then skirted the radar airspace of Indonesia,” CNN’s senior international correspondent Nick Robertson said in his report broadcast live from Kuala Lumpur.
07/04/14 Malaysia Mail
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Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein told a press conference here that he had instructed Malaysia’s military chief to contact his Indonesian counterpart and that the latter confirmed this.
“It’s untrue,” he said. “They (Indonesia) confirmed they had no sighting of the plane,” he said at the conference broadcast live on Astro Awani.
Hishammuddin’s brief response, however, did not appear to directly answer the question raised by a reporter at the media conference.
Yesterday, a CNN report cited a “senior Malaysian government official” as saying that latest radar readings from neighbouring countries showed that the Boeing 777 aircraft carrying 239 people had avoided Indonesian airspace, possibly to avoid radar detection.
“What this official says is that after the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 took that left-hand turn, deviated from its path to Beijing, flew across Malaysia.... the official now says that they know from looking at radar data from neighbouring countries that the flight then skirted the radar airspace of Indonesia,” CNN’s senior international correspondent Nick Robertson said in his report broadcast live from Kuala Lumpur.
07/04/14 Malaysia Mail
