Here’s a summary of the major events in Malaysia following the prime minister’s announcement that flight MH370 is assumed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean. You can catch up on the last few hours of coverage here. • Relatives of flight MH370 Chinese passengers issued a scathing statement attacking the Malaysian government. The statement said the airline, government and military has “continually and extremely delayed, hidden and covered the facts, and attempted to deceive the passengers’ relatives, and people all over the world.” • UK satellite firm Inmarsat is credited with helping to confirm the plane’s location using new techniques. Normally youd want to triangulate, often youd have GPS,” Chris McLaughlin, an Inmarsat vice president, told Sky News. “But because aircraft in that region are not mandated to send out signals of their location we were working from blind, so this is very much a unique approach - the first time its been done. • Investigators are looking for debris belonging to MH370. If found, search planes will guide ships to the area so that they can salvage the wreckage and search the ocean floor – which in the south Indian ocean can be about 4,000 metres deep. A useful question and answer guide to the next steps, here. • China said it is sending more vessels to the area to search and salvage the wreckage. The US Navy has sent a black box locator to aid recovery efforts and is using an elite P8 Poseidon aircraft. Japan has sent two P3 Orion planes, New Zealand one, and Australia is overseeing the search for debris in the southerly search sector.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:36:56 +0000
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