MH370’S ENGINES DID NOT SEND MESSAGES – BUT SEARCH EXTENDED TO INDIAN OCEAN ANYWAY
Malaysia’s defence and acting transport minister Hishammuddin said this afternoon that Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 did not send out signals from its engines. This was confirmed by Rolls Royce.
Nevertheless the search had now been extended to the Indian Ocean (average depth 13,000 – deepest at Java Trench 26000) in the belief it may have been an unindentified aircraft which crossed the Malay Peninsular at the time of the flight’s disappearance. Malaysian authorities do not know because the search is alsob being extended into the South China Sea.
Rolls Royce official and members of the US National Transportation Safety Board were now in Kuala Lumpur to assist.
(Link to Pilot and Co-Pilot going through security at KLIA)
“The aircraft is still missing, and the search area is expanding. Two days ago, the search area was widened to include the Andaman Sea.
Together with our international partners, we are now pushing further east into the South China Sea, and further into the Indian Ocean.
We want nothing more than to find the plane as quickly as possible. But the circumstances have forced us to widen our search.
A normal investigation becomes narrower with time, as new information focuses the search. But this is not a normal investigation. In this case, the information we have forces us to look further and further afield.
Yesterday, we rejected a media report in which unnamed officials said that engine data showed the plane had kept flying for hours after last contact. We checked with Boeing and Rolls Royce, who said the reports were not true.”
Earlier Reuters news agency put out a report which stated:
Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah has his own flight simulator at home. He told a friend Peter Chong that is was much more dangerous flying the simulator because he was able to create emergency situations.
