Investigations into missing Malaysian jet appear deadlocked Updated Wednesday, March 19th 2014 at 08:33 GMT +3 0 inShare Malaysia Airlines Chief Executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said the fact that aircraft continued to exchange electronic handshakes with the satellite weighed against theories that the pilots were battling some kind of technical problem. Theres a possibility of malfunction, but the satellite communication system was still active until the last time there was data at 8:11 a.m., he said. Theres some functionality in the system, except the reporting system was disabled. U.S. government sources said intelligence agencies had extensively analysed people on the flight but came up with no connections to terrorism or possible criminal motives. A senior U.S. official said he was not aware of any stones left unturned. China has said there is no evidence that Chinese passengers, who made up over two-thirds of those on board, were involved in a hijack or terror attack. Unless there is some kind of breakthrough, either in the form of new data or a sighting of the plane, the investigation appears to be drifting towards deadlock, sources said. See also: Co-pilot spoke last words heard from missing Malaysian plane HUGE SEARCH AREA Asked how important military tracking data would be to resolving the mystery, Hishammuddin said, It is very important. But in the case of Malaysia, we have actually put aside national security, national interest to get to where we are today. A senior diplomat in the region said military and government leaders were studying Malaysias request, but there was no word so far on whether any data would be exchanged. Malaysia says it will have to buy a new radar system after revealing what it knew of the path the airliner took after turning back across its territory. It looks like the ball is in (others) court now and they need to decide what sort of military and other data they are willing to share with us, a Malaysian government source said. Analysts say it will be difficult to persuade others to do the same, especially if the result would be to reveal weakness in their own defences given the numerous maritime and territorial boundary disputes going on in the region. GO TO PAGE « Prev 1 2 3 Next » Read more at: standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000107291&story_title=investigations-into-missing-malaysian-jet-appear-deadlocked&pageNo=2
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 06:21:39 +0000
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