MH370 Protests As Airline Chief Defends Search –Scuffles broke out as uniformed security personnel attempted to block relatives from reaching reporters
25 Mar 2014 Malaysia Airlines’ chief executive has said he will decide later whether to resign, as Chinese relatives of passengers held angry protests in Beijing. At a news conference at Kuala Lumpur airport, Ahmad Jauhari Yahya was asked whether he would stand down over the airline’s handling of the disappearance of MH370… But the news conference came as dozens of angry relatives of Chinese passengers clashed with police at Malaysia’s embassy in Beijing. They were shouting slogans including “the Malaysian government are murderers” and “return our relatives”. Scuffles broke out as uniformed security personnel attempted to block some of the relatives from reaching reporters, who were being kept in a designated area.
‘Liars, tell us the truth!’ Hundreds march on Malaysian embassy in Beijing in massive protest over MH370 disaster
25 Mar 2014 Hundreds of angry protesters, many of them family members of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 passengers, marched on the Malaysian embassy in Beijing against what call cover-up and mishandling of the disaster by Malaysian authorities on Tuesday. Beijing authorities had to call in reinforcement of paramilitary soldiers and plainclothes security agents to guard the Malaysian embassy as protesters, some arriving by bus and others on foot, breached police lines set up several streets away. Earlier on Tuesday morning, several hundred family members of the doomed flight’s passengers had stormed out of the hotel they were staying at and travelled to the Malaysian embassy in downtown Beijing by bus.
Malaysia Airlines crash: Suicide mission theory of MH370 investigators
24 Mar 2014 Flight MH370 crashed into the Indian Ocean in an apparent suicide mission, well-placed sources revealed have revealed, as Malaysia’s prime minister announced that everyone on the missing aircraft had died. The team investigating the Boeing 777′s disappearance believe no malfunction or fire was capable of causing the aircraft’s unusual flight or the disabling of its communications system before it veered wildly off course on a seven-hour silent flight into the sea. An official source told The Telegraph that investigators believe “this has been a deliberate act by someone on board who had to have had the detailed knowledge to do what was done…Nothing is emerging that points to motive.”
Missing flight MH370 lost in southern Indian Ocean, says Malaysian PM
24 Mar 2014 The last desperate hopes of finding survivors in the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane ended on Monday with the announcement that it had crashed into the southern Indian Ocean with all lives lost. A statement by the Malaysian prime minister, Najib Razak, concluded an anguished 16-day wait for families of the passengers and crew but brought them no closer to understanding why flight MH370 vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March. The location of the Boeing-777 also remains unknown despite a massive international hunt. Ten aircraft are combing a huge patch of the southern Indian Ocean, around 2,500km (1,500 miles) south-west of the Australian city of Perth.
Malaysia Plane ‘Crashed Into Indian Ocean’
24 Mar 2014 Satellite data has confirmed that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 crashed into the southern Indian Ocean. The Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak held a news conference today confirming that all those on the flight have been lost. He said satellite data provided by a UK company, Inmarsat, showed the plane’s last recorded position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth. “This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites,” Mr Razak said.
Japanese military team moves base to Australia
24 Mar 2014 Two Japanese P-3C Orion military aircraft took off from the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) base here this morning and will join search and rescue operations in Australia for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. “We will be going to Australia to try and find MH370 …When we arrive in Australia, we will start to coordinate with the (Royal) Australian Air Force,” commanding officer Hidetsugu Iwamasa, 41, told reporters before boarding the aircraft. Hidetsugu is part of the Japan Disaster Relief (JDR) team that was sent to Malaysia following MH370′s disappearance.
Flight MH370: Pilot Used ‘Emergency and Combat Scenarios’ Simulator
23 Mar 2014 Investigators are poring over a state-of-the-art flight simulator built by one of the pilots [Zaharie Ahmad Shah and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid] of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in a search for clues about the plane’s disappearance. Last week, a state-of-the art-flight simulator was seized from Zaharie’s home in Kuala Lumpur, and investigators are examining the X-plane 10 game he played, which would have allowed him to practise flying in a range of circumstances and weather conditions. The software would have allowed him to practise landing at more than 33,000 airports, on aircraft carriers, oil rigs, frigates, which pitch and roll with the waves, and heli-pads atop buildings.
Missing plane fuels security rethink
24 Mar 2014 As the hunt for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 enters a third week, the piecemeal returns from one of the most intense, international searches in living memory have delivered a public and institutional shock that could force a major rethink about aviation security. The fact that a Boeing-777 equipped with state-of-the-art location tracking technology could vanish for so long, is in itself, aviation experts say, shocking enough to compel changes in the way commercial aircraft are electronically monitored. One priority would be to enhance tracking coverage for a plane in an emergency situation that forces it beyond the reach of conventional radar systems.
MAS flight MH066 diverted to Hong Kong due to inoperative generator
24 Mar 2014 Malaysia Airlines (MAS) confirmed that its Flight MH066 from Kuala Lumpur to Incheon, Seoul on Sunday was diverted to Hong Kong due to an inoperative aircraft generator. MAS media relations manager Kharunnisak Dzun Nurin said in a statement on Monday that the Airbus A330-300 aircraft landed in Hong Kong “uneventfully”. Electrical power continued to be supplied by the auxiliary power unit, she said.