Fred Walton reports:
Search for MH370 to shift HUNDREDS OF KILOMETRES south
Inmarsat distances itself from a BBC documentary due to air on Tuesday night, suggesting the most likely crash site has yet to be searched.
SYDNEY - The drawn-out search for missing Malaysian Flight MH370 will revert to an area hundreds of kilometres south of the previously suspected crash site following new analysis of the plane's flight path, a report said Friday.
Inmarsat denies holding key data on MH370 crash site ahead of BBC documentary
Inmarsat distances itself from a BBC documentary due to air on Tuesday night, suggesting the most likely crash site has yet to be searched.
Inmarsat, a key figure in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, has distanced itself from a BBC documentary due to air on Tuesday night, suggesting the most likely crash site has yet to be searched.
“The suggestion was the BBC was promoting the final resting place of the aircraft, but it doesn’t appear to me in the trailer that they do mention that – but maybe they do in the programme,” said Chris McLaughlin, the company’s senior vice president of external affairs.
The doubters have spoken.
A group of independent experts -- who prodded authorities to release satellite data on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 -- says it thinks it knows the approximate location of the missing aircraft.
Five separate computer models all place the plane in a tight cluster of spots in the south Indian Ocean — hundreds of miles southwest of the previous search site.
"We recommend that the search for MH370 be focused in this area," the group said in a statement late Tuesday.
"While there remain a number of uncertainties and some disagreements as to the interpretation of aspects of the data, our best estimates of a location of the aircraft (is) near 36.02 South 88.57 East," according to the statement, which was approved by 10 named experts.
The group opted to release its statement late Tuesday in advance of a BBC documentary on the missing plane, and ahead of the Australian government's announcement on the focus of the search, so that there would be no question about the independence of the group's findings, said one member of the group, American Mobile Satellite Corp. co-founder Mike Exner.
"We wanted to get our best estimate out," Exner said.
Investigators grappling to solve the mystery of the jet's disappearance are set to scour a zone 1,800 kilometres (1,116 miles) west of Perth - previously subject to an aerial search - when an underwater probe resumes in August, the West Australian said.
Citing unnamed US sources, the newspaper said Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) would soon announce the hunt will move 800 kilometres southwest from where it was previously focused.
It said these sources had revealed that survey ship Fugro Equator was already operating in this area and would soon be joined by Chinese vessel Zhu Kezhen.
A massive aerial and underwater search for MH370, which had 239 people onboard when it diverted from its Kuala Lumpur to Beijing flight path on March 8, has failed to find any sign of the plane.
Scientists from British company Inmarsat told the BBC earlier this week that the search had yet to target the most likely crash site, or "hotspot", after becoming diverted by pings thought at the time to have originated from the plane's black boxes.
Months have pass since the mysterious Malaysian plane disappeared.
Families and friends who have missing loved ones on Flight 370 are extremely frustrated by the lack of answers they are searching for.
Ethan Hunt, an Australian man and coordinator of a $5 million dollar fundraising goal, will go forth with the project he calls, “The Whistleblower Fund,” through a fundraising site called Indiegogo, which will begin on June 15, 2014. Hunt believes that with this much incentive, someone is bound to come forward with information leading up to the exact location of the plane.
The campaign members, which is being guided by 5 of the relatives, believe that the missing plane could be linked to either terrorist networks or the Secret Service. Even though the government has said they’ve done all they could do in order to find the airliner, they certainly have failed at providing beneficial evidence.
Danica Weeks, wife of Paul Weeks, a missing passenger from the jetliner, said, “ We’ve been cut off so many times at the gates that we’re just now having to take things into our own hands, think outside the box and just try and do something to find this plane.” Families refuse to give up hope in search of the 242 ft. plane that disappeared in route from Beijing to Kuala Lumpar. Hunt stated, “This unpredicted mystery is unprecedented in the history of aviation, and we need to work together collectively with one goal of finding the truth, the plane and the passengers.”
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