Anger as MH370 report offers no new information
PUTRAJAYA:AN official Malaysian investigation into the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people aboard, was unable to determine what happened to the plane, safety investigators said on Monday.
The 495-page report draws no conclusion about what happened aboard the plane that vanished en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, leaving one of the world’s greatest unsolved aviation mysteries.
The head of the safety investigation team, Kok Soo Chon, said the available pieces of evidence, including the plane’s deviation from its flight course and the switching off of a transponder, “irresistibly point” to unlawful interference.
But he added that the panel found no indication of who might have interfered or why, and that any criminal inquiry would be the responsibility of law enforcement authorities, not safety investigators.
Relatives briefed at the transport ministry in Putrajaya before the report’s release expressed anger that there was nothing new in the document, with some storming out of the briefing as frustration boiled over. G Subramaniam, who lost a son on the flight, said that “unsatisfactory responses left many angry”.
“1,605 days of roller coaster, families still have no closure,” Voice370, a group of family members, said on its Facebook page. “The team concluded that they were unable to determine the real cause for the disappearance of #mh370. Simply unacceptable as a ‘final’ report. How can we prevent another MH370 incident in future?” AGENCIES