{"id":12687,"date":"2019-03-07T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=12687"},"modified":"2019-03-07T11:31:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T03:31:14","slug":"five-years-on-mh370-remains-the-worlds-greatest-unanswered-aviation-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=12687","title":{"rendered":"Five years on, MH370 remains the world’s greatest unanswered aviation mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 7 (NNN- Bernama) – Tomorrow marks the day when Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished without a trace five years ago in the southern Indian Ocean and the most pertinent questions in the world\u2019s greatest aviation mystery remain unanswered — where are you and what exactly happened?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The disappearance of the Boeing 777 passenger jetliner which vanished from the radar screen while on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, continues to baffle aviation experts, family members, friends and people from all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last search operations to locate the aircraft ended May last year when a United States-based exploration company Ocean Infinity failed to locate the ill-fated aircraft after searching over 112,000 km square of the ocean floor in more than three months of operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To date, only three wing fragments, known as flaperon, have been confirmed \u2018definitely\u2019 from Flight MH370.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

News reports showed that investigators found the numbers on the part matched the plane\u2019s serial number and identification numbers belonging to parts were uniquely made for Malaysia Airlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right wing flaperon was found on a beach in Saint Denis on Reunion Island in July 2015 and the left outboard flap trailing edge was found in Mauritius in May 2016 while the right outboard flap was found on an island in Tanzania in June 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other than that, it was reported that about 30 pieces of debris have been found by the public on the African coast and islands in the Indian Ocean and most of them have been handed over to the authorities with some confirmed as \u2018almost certainly\u2019 from the ill-fated plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

News reports showed investigators found that some pieces have stencilled number and letters of the same font and colour used by Malaysia Airlines as well as some part with decorative pattern matched that of Malaysia Airlines and were not used by any other airlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRelaunching the investigation is perhaps good in a way so that we can ascertain in a more concrete fashion the origin of the 30 or so pieces of wreckage and we can plot in an orderly manner the locations where these pieces were found,\u201d said a local aviation expert Prof Dr Mohd Harridon Mohamed Suffian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPlotting the 30 or more pieces of wreckage would somehow unearth the pattern of flow of these pieces in the ocean and coalescing this with certain mathematical algorithms, we perhaps can pinpoint the crash site,\u201d the Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL) test pilot told Bernama recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July last year, the MH370 Safety Investigation Team, in its 449-page report, concluded that they were unable to determine the real cause of the disappearance of the ill-fated flight, but did not rule out the possibility that \u2018unlawful interference\u2019 by a third party had caused the incident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Royal Malaysian Air Force investigating officer, Captain (R) Abdul Rahmat Omar Tun Mohd Haniff said: \u201cOur only hope is to find the two Black Boxes: the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) to hopefully point out who and maybe why or how if there is any indication at all; and with the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) we may be able to learn how,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former pilot pointed out that, finding the two units alone seem like a miracle, let alone extracting the data after five years being submerged six kilometres beneath the surface of the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, when met at the fifth Annual MH370 Remembrance event, Transport Minister Anthony Loke said the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government was willing to listen to proposals from any exploration or search companies with credible leads and having the technology to restart the search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commenting further, former MAS chief pilot, Datuk Captain Nik Ahmad Huzlan Nik Hussain said the new search should only begin with a new approach as it can be quite costly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nik Ahmad Huzlan drove home the point that relaunching the search would be a wasted effort if the investigators team did not entertain or reject certain possibilities and scenario of the plane’s last moments prior to exhaustion of fuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof Dr Mohd Harridon hoped that MH370 situation would be handled continuously where numerous quarters would lend a hand in trying to ease the emotional strain the next of kins had gone through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe situation is still shrouded with mystery and perhaps in the near future new information or methodology would emerge to mitigate the scenario.\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGood Night, Malaysian Three Seven Zero\u201d was the last radio message sent from the MH370 cockpit and it will continue to haunt us and the disappearance of MH370 will be the greatest aviation mystery in the world until any new leads or mammoth evidence were discovered,\u201d he said.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KUALA LUMPUR, March 7 (NNN- Bernama) – Tomorrow marks the day when Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished without a trace five years ago in the southern Indian Ocean and the most pertinent questions in the world\u2019s greatest aviation mystery remain unanswered — where are you and what exactly happened? The disappearance of the Boeing 777 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":12689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12687"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}