Thursday, March 5, 2015

Search for Malaysian plane lost one year ago may be stopped, says Australian PM

An extensive search for the Malaysian Boeing that went missing over the Indian Ocean almost a year ago may be stopped, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott told the parliament on Thursday.
He said hope remained that the search operation would yield result, but intensive search could not be continued indefinitely.

The current stage of the operation in which four vessels are engaged, is to end in May. Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said earlier that experts from Australia, Malaysia and China were discussing what to do next if the search failed to produce result.

He also said that in teamwork with Malaysia and Indonesia, Australia would test a new navigation and communications system that would be tracking location of the planes flying in the western art of the Pacific region every 15 minutes, instead of every 30 to 40 minutes as this is the case now.

Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew. Contact with the plane was lost about two hours after it took off from the Malaysian capital. No trace of the plane was found during extensive search in the Indian Ocean some 2,500 kilometers west of Australia in the first 1.5 months since its disappearance.

Last April, the scope of the search was reduced, and after analyzing huge amounts of satellite data, specialists moved the search zone southwest off the Australian coast.

[ tass.ru ]
5/3/15
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  1. MH370: l'Australie laisse entendre que le dispositif de recherche pourrait être réduit...

    (Belga) Le Premier ministre australien Tony Abbott a laissé entendre jeudi que le dispositif déployé pour tenter de localiser l'épave du Boeing 777 de la Malaysia Airlines mystérieusement disparu il y a bientôt un an pourrait être réduit.

    Le 8 mars 2014, le vol MH370 au départ de Kuala Lumpur à destination de Pékin disparaissait une heure après son décollage avec 227 passagers à bord, dont 153 Chinois. Aucune trace de l'avion n'a été retrouvée malgré d'intensives recherches dirigées par l'Australie dans le sud de l'océan Indien où des satellites ont "accroché" pour la dernière fois les systèmes de communication de l'appareil. "Je rassure les familles quant à notre espoir et notre foi dans le succès des recherches en cours", a déclaré Tony Abbott devant le Parlement à Canberra. "Je ne peux pas promettre que les recherches se poursuivront toujours avec la même intensité mais nous ferons tout notre possible pour résoudre ce mystère et apporter des réponses" aux familles des disparus, a-t-il ajouté. Quatre navires explorent actuellement les profondeurs du sud de l'océan Indien, en immergeant de puissants sonars, à environ 1.600 kilomètres à l'ouest des côtes occidentales de l'Australie. Les équipes de recherche pensent que les débris de l'avion pourraient reposer à 4.000 mètres de profondeur. Un plan de récupération est en cours d'élaboration. Jusqu'à présent, près de 40% de la zone de recherche prioritaire de 60.000 kilomètres carrés a été passé au peigne fin. L'opération doit s'achever en mai. Le 29 janvier, la Malaisie a officiellement déclaré que cette disparition était un accident et que les passagers et membres d'équipage de l'appareil étaient présumés morts. (Belga)
    http://www.rtl.be/info/monde/international/mh370-l-australie-laisse-entendre-que-le-dispositif-de-recherche-pourrait-etre-reduit-705478.aspx
    5/3/15

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  2. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has voiced hope that the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet will finally prove successful, news reports said...

    "I do reassure the families of our hope and expectation that the ongoing search will succeed. I can't promise that the search will go on at this intensity forever but we will continue our very best efforts to resolve this mystery and provide some answer," Abbott said.

    The MH370 flight, which had 239 people on board, disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.

    Australia is at the helm of an international search team in the Indian Ocean, about 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) off its western coast. The search is focused on a 60,000-square-kilometer priority zone.

    Earlier this week, Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia announced the trial of a new method of tracking long-haul flights, which is expected to help spot the missing Malaysian plane.

    On Saturday, Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation will release an interim report on the MH370, which is thought to have crashed in the Indian Ocean's southern area.
    http://sputniknews.com/asia/20150305/1019085270.html#ixzz3TVBeqJDv
    5/3/15

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