On Mar 31st 2014 Malaysias Minister of Transport stated, that Malaysia is committed to find the aircraft and recover the black boxes, search efforts will not cease until the aircraft has been found. The Minister said after mentioning families of occupants are heartbroken and have endured unbearable strain: This is a promise that Malaysia intends to keep. We will continue searching, and we will keep investigating, and we will never give up until we find out what happened to MH370. The Minister stated, that the ship Ocean Shield with a blackbox ping locator, capable to detect pings off the black boxes up to 6000 meters below water surface, has departed Perth and is expected in the northern search area by Apr 3rd to commence search for the black boxes. A new coordination center called JACC (Joint Agency Coordination Center) has been established in Perth responsible to coordinate the search activities of the various participants in the search. On Mar 31st 10 aircraft and 11 ships were participating in scanning an area of 254,000 square kilometers/74,000 square nautical miles. Five objects retrieved so far by ships have been identified to be unrelated to MH-370. On Mar 31st 2014 AMSA stated that the search for the fishing vessel was abandoned due lack of surviveability and unclear documentation that does even permit to establish who owns and operated the vessel. As result all aircraft and ships are available for the search of MH-370, 10 aircraft and 10 ships will search the search area west of Perth. In addition, the vessel Ocean Shield was conducting tests with its black box ping locator earlier the day and set off to the search area in the evening of Mar 31st taking several days until reaching the area.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:16:09 +0000
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