Who pays for MH370 search?
The Malaysian government’s preliminary report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will be released tomorrow (Friday).
The release comes as nations involved in the search begin to question the costs of their operations.
Malaysia’s acting transport minister Hishammuddin Tun Hussein will visit Australia next week to discuss the next phase of the search operation, which will focus on a deep-sea trawl of the southern Indian Ocean.
"We don’t know what the costs will be until we decide where to search, what assets are going to be used, and who will supply those assets," the minister said.
In Canberra this week Australian prime minister Tony Abbott said the new search would involve commercial contractors with a high degree of specialisation in deep ocean search.
Abbott added that Australia would seek "some appropriate contribution" from other nations involved in the search operation.
Flight MH370 with 239 people on board disappeared from radar screens about an hour into its flight while over the South China Sea on March 8.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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