MH370 Large Area search will continue, or will start again

MH370 Large Area Search continues

March 7, Soudar, Indian sand sculpture artist, makes a sand sculpture about the MH370 flight at Puri Beach, India. Xinhua/AFP

On the anniversary of the airliner's disappearance, the horse made a promise

The first anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines ' MH370 airliner, Malaysian Transport Minister Rio Chengle promised that a large search of the seabed in the southern Indian Ocean would continue, and that Malaysia, China and Australia would "start over" if they did nothing at the end of May this year.

Or "Start Over"

Rio Chengle 7th told Foreign media reporters, the MH370 airliner crashed in the south Indian Ocean, he himself has remained cautious optimism, believe this judgment.

It's just that no sign of the Boeing -777 has been found so far. A total area of 60,000 square kilometers of priority search area has been scanned more than 40%, except for some sunken containers in the seabed, nothing found.

Rio Chengle said: "By the end of May, if we still can not find the plane, we will have to start over." ”

That means, he explains, the need to re-examine the data used to delimit existing search scopes. "We need direction, we need to plan, we need to study all the data we have now." ”

A reporter asked, at the end of May, the southern Indian Ocean will usually enter the bad weather season, if not found at that time, will Malaysia stop the search? Rio Chengle said that it was "premature" to talk about these, and that the Malaysian government would make a further decision by referring to the expert panel on the specific lead search.

"I want to say to the missing passengers and the crew members that we will continue to work on the search for MH370." Rio Chengle added. Rio Chengle said that officials from Malaysia, Macao and China will meet next month to discuss the next steps of the search process.

Australian Deputy Prime Minister Woren Trasse said last week that if a plane could not be found by the end of May, one option would be to extend the search around the existing area. Australia's prime minister, Abbott, said 5th that he could not promise that the search would continue to be consistent with existing strength, but "we will continue to do our best to identify the doubts and give some answers".

It's a mend.

Rio Chengle said that the MH370 accident Interim investigation report 7th by the Malaysian Government submitted by Malaysia, scheduled to be released to the public on the afternoon of 8th. He did not comment on the contents of the report.

Rio Chengle also said that the Malaysian government has taken a number of steps, including the preparation of an updated ground-based radar tracking system to accommodate greater air traffic flow, which has already begun to install a new real-time tracking system for airliners, with the aircraft sending flight data to the ground to be shortened from the previous 30-40 minutes to 15 minutes. This allows for quicker and more accurate understanding of flight status, and finding its whereabouts after a flight is lost.

The Malaysian government has raised 700 million ringgit (about $190 million) for the updated radar system. Rio Chengle said the Malaysian government had begun to update the radar before the MH370 accident. The new radar system will be able to better track flights flying over remote areas.

Rio Chengle said he hoped the MH370 incident would help the international air transport community to enhance aviation security, and that the International Civil Aviation Organization had heard calls from Malaysia to increase its tracking of flights. ICAO will require all aircraft to install a real-time tracking system starting next year.

On March 8 last year, the MH370 flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing lost contact with the air Traffic control center at the border between Malaysia and Vietnam. The airliner contains 227 passengers and 12 crew members, including 154 Chinese passengers. January 29 This year, the Malaysian Civil Aviation Authority announced that the MH370 flight crashed and presumed to have been killed.

Ruoyu (Xinhua newspaper feature)