Relatives say official MH370 briefing ‘contains nothing new’
Relatives have expressed anger and disappointment that the long-awaited official report into the disappearance of flight MH370, released today, has given no new information on what happened.
Family members had been hoping that the official investigation team’s report could provide them with some closure, over four years after the Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 239 people went missing.
They said the report contained ‘little new beyond a lengthy description of the plane’s disappearance and search efforts, and that officials were unable to answer their questions’, according to reports.
Some angry relatives walked out of the briefing.
The report said Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, missing since 2014, was probably deliberately steered off course and flown to the southern Indian Ocean.
It said it was difficult to attribute the aircraft’s changes in course to any specific system failure. "It is more likely that such manoeuvres are due to the systems being manipulated," it said.
MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014, en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board.
Investigators have never been able to explain why the jet abandoned its route shortly into the flight.
It was widely speculated at the time of the incident and subsequently that a pilot on the aircraft was to blame for the missing flight but that was dismissed at the press conference this morning, with lead investigator Kok Soo Chon saying there was’no evidence’ to suggest this was the case.
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