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Navy scouring Bay of Bengal again for MH370 after GeoResonance claim


Bangladesh Navy has mounted a renewed search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the Bay of Bengal after an Australian exploration company claimed to have traced its debris.

Two ships – BNS Bangabandhu and BNS Anusandhan – began scouring the sea from Tuesday night, Navy Director (Intelligence) Commodore Rashid Ali told bdnews24.com on Wednesday.

Geophysical survey company GeoResonance on Monday said it had spotted pieces of wreckage in the Bay of Bengal and that it should be investigated as potential debris from the Malaysian plane.

But the present search coordinators have dismissed the claim.


http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2014...ngal-again-for-mh370-after-georesonance-claim
 
But despite US President Barack Obama publicly promising to commit more assets, the United States appears keen to begin passing on the costs of providing sophisticated sonar equipment that will form the backbone of the expanded hunt.

That means Australia, China and Malaysia - the countries most closely involved in the operation - look set to bear the financial and logistical burden of a potentially lengthy and expensive search


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/malaysi...ne-wreckage-20140501-zr24s.html#ixzz30PSy7Q8l
 
Malaysia will release a preliminary report on Thursday on the disappearance of flight MH370 nearly two months after it went missing, according to a transport ministry official.

Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston has told Sky News - claims the missing Malaysia Airlines plane might be in the Bay of Bengal - should be looked into -

- See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/worl...nitial-mh370-report.html#sthash.RZbskWSf.dpuf
 
THE man overseeing the international hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 says he is confident the plane will be found off Western Australia.

Air Chief Marshal Houston said the claim by Adelaide-based resource survey company GeoResonance that it had identified a possible plane crash site in the Bay of Bengal was certainly worth investigating.

"It is certainly something that needs to be looked at and I believe it probably has been looked at,” he told Sky News.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...ff-the-wa-coast/story-fn59niix-1226901411620#
 
May 1, 2014 - 11:15PM

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia has made public a preliminary report on flight MH370 and other data that marks its most extensive release of information on the missing airliner to date.

The five-page report, which was submitted earlier to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), was essentially a recap of information that has already been released, and did not immediately appear to contain any major revelations.

Malaysian authorities have also released includes:
•The audio recordings of conversations between the cockpit of MH370 and Kuala Lumpur air traffic control.
•The preliminary report into MH370, dated 9 April.
•An additional document, which gives further information regarding the actions taken between the hours of 01:38 and 06:14 on Saturday 8 March.
•A map showing MH370’s flight path.
•The cargo manifest for MH370.
•The seating plan for MH370.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/mh370-m...to-activate-20140501-zr2wk.html#ixzz30TDGi0EI
 
MH370: Govt releases preliminary report
May 1, 2014
The report did not contain any information from the police investigation into whether a criminal act such as terrorism was to blame.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia on Thursday made public a report on Flight MH370 and other data in its most extensive release of information on the airliner yet, but which contained no new clues on what happened to the missing plane.
The brief five-page report dated April 9, and which was submitted earlier to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), was mostly a recap of information that had already been released over time.
It contained no major revelations in what remains one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history.
“Over a month after the aircraft departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport, its location is still unknown,” the report said.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/ca...01/govt-releases-preliminary-report-on-mh370/
 
MH370 press conference on May 2

Todays’ presser at link. With Angus Houston, Hishammuddin Hussein, and Jean Paul Troadec (from French air accident investigation board).

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...videos/mh370-press-conference-on/1092570.html


There is going to be a tri-lateral meeting on Monday – Malaysia, Australia, China – to discuss the way forward, deployment of assets, etc.

Angus Houston – Still hopeful that Bluefin will find the black boxes, but the probability of finding anything is lower than it was when we first started.

Expanded search is a very large area, and is very very deep.
 
Jean-Paul Troadec brought in to help find Malaysia Airlines’ flight MH370

May 02, 2014 3:46PM

A TRILATERAL meeting on the search for mssing flight MH370 will be held in Canberra on Monday, between the Malaysian, Chinese and Australian governments.

Search coordinator retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston has travelled to Malaysia to begin consultation in the lead up to the “very important” meeting.

Houston was joined in the press conference by Jean-Paul Troadec — President of the French Aviation Accident Investigation Bureau (and previous head of the Air France 447 investigation team) — who orchestrated the successful search for the black boxes of a crashed Air France passenger jet — and Malaysian Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...nes-flight-mh370/story-fnizu68q-1226903454549
 
Malaysia considers theory that Flight 370 may be in Bay of Bengal

By Holly Yan and David McKenzie, CNN

updated 8:03 AM EDT, Fri May 2, 2014

(CNN) -- Days after authorities dismissed the idea that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may be in the Bay of Bengal, a top Malaysian official said Friday he is considering sending a ship there.

Acting Transportation Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the tip could be confirmed only by sending vessels to the area, which is thousands of kilometers away from the official search area in the southern Indian Ocean.

"But I just want to stress that by doing that, we are distracting ourselves from the main search," he said Friday. "And in the event that the result from the search is negative, who is going to be responsible for that loss of time?"

Hishammuddin said the chance of finding Flight 370 in the Bay of Bengal is "highly unlikely," but he has not yet decided whether to send a vessel there...

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/02/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
 
May 02, 2014

The Air Chief Marshal reiterated the new focused underwater search will take about eight to 12 months.

“We are totally committed, as three nations I believe, to find MH370,” he said, expressing confidence they can find the aircraft.

The search coordinator stressed he’s confident they’re searching in the right area — the southern Indian Ocean — adding the Bangladeshi navy hasn’t found anything in the Bay of Bengal.

The reassurance follows a number of claims in the last week from amateur searchers that wreckage had been “spotted” in the bay and in the Gulf of Thailand

Houston added that the search would continue because authorities owed it to the families of the victims and the world to learn what happened to the ill-fated flight
 
02 May 2014| last updated at 03:54PM
KUALA LUMPUR: Nothing has so far, been found in the Bay of Bengal, with regard to a report by an Australian exploration company that it might have located the wreckage of the missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370 aircraft.

Joint Action Coordination Centre (JACC) Chief Coordinator Angus Houston said currently, three Bangladeshi navy ships were scouring the area, with one of the ships equipped with echo sound capability to assist in ensuring a thorough search in that particular area.
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http://www.nst.com.my/latest/font-c...ckage-in-bay-of-bengal-1.585259#ixzz30bcBrzvJ
 
Friday, May 02, 2014, 21:37
The ship Ocean Shield is now en route to Fleet Base West to replenish supplies and personnel and will then return to the vicinity of its current search area for search operation with the Bluefin-21, according to the JACC.

The Malaysian frigate KD Lekiu has also been re-supplying in port, while the Malaysian supply vessel Bunga Mas is remaining in the search area with a number of Chinese vessels, it added.
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http://zeenews.india.com/news/world...ater-search-mh370-still-a-mystery_929250.html
 
Chinese relatives posting in a group on China's popular WeChat social networking service said that the airline notified them it would offer initial $50,000 payments to families for each of the passengers to "meet their economic needs".

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a statement that China "was willing to work with the Malaysian side to make progress in comforting the families of passengers."

…. She added that three officials from her local neighbourhood committee, the lowest level of government administration in China, had accompanied her and other family members on a flight to her home in the eastern city of Nanjing.
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http://eastandard.net/chinese-mh370-relatives-say-forced-to-leave-hotel/
 
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