Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak gave the information in a televised press conference at 15:00 CET.
The presser came after three new sightings of possible debris, with France as well announcing yesterday that its satellite sighted possible wreckage from the plane in the southern Indian Ocean.
Malaysian Airlines assumes “beyond any reasonable doubt” that the missing flight MH370 is considered lost and there are no survivors.
This statement was sent as a text message to the families of those, who were on board, as reported by the BBC.
The flight MH370, Malaysian airlines, with 239 passengers on board, has been missing since March 8th.
The plane took off at Kuala Lumpur and never landed at its destination in Beijing.
It has now been 5 days since the search operation has been held in the southern Indian Ocean.
It has been 17 days that over 25 countries are searching for Malaysian plane MH370, its 239 passengers and crew.
The last known location of the plane was in remote Indian Ocean waters off the coast of Perth on Australia’s west coast, with the information on its last whereabouts coming from the UK’s Air accidents investigation branch.
Malaysian authorities briefed the families of the missing passengers ahead of the Prime Minister’s press conference.
Australian authorities spotted at least two new floating objects in the Southern Indian Sea where a US Navy P-8 Poseidon, the most advanced search aircraft in the world, had been unable to find objects spotted earlier on Monday by a Chinese aircraft hunting for clues to the missing Malaysia
jet.
The Australian Prime-Minister said the country’s Maritime Safety Authority had advised him the search jet P-3 Orion crew had seen a grey or green circular object as well as an orange rectangular object, both of which are separate to the objects spotted by a Chinese aircraft, in the Indian ocean.
The Australian media quote a different version coming from a member of the P-3 Orion crew, saying he saw at least 4 different objects: “The firstmobject was rectangular, slightly below the ocean, the second object was circular, also lightly below the ocean”, “We came across a cylindrical object that was 2m long about 30cm across, and we came across another item that was also cylindrical and shaped in a rough fish hook”.
The new objects were spotted in the search area about 2,500 kilometres southwest of Perth at about 2.45pm Australian time.
HMAS Success is on the scene and is trying to recover the objects, while a US navy Poseidon aircraft, as well as a second Australian Orion and a Japanese Orion aircraft were en route to the area. The Chinese Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft spotted two “relatively big” floating objects and several smaller
white ones dispersed over several kilometers, the Xinhua news agency reported earlier.
white ones dispersed over several kilometers, the Xinhua news agency reported earlier.
Beijing announced later that there was no confirmation yet that the objects belong to the missing flight.
PM NAJIB RAZAK’S PRESS STATEMENT ON MH370:
24 MARCH 2014, 10PM
This evening I was briefed by representatives from the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB). They informed me that Inmarsat, the UK company that provided the satellite data which indicated the northern and southern corridors, has been performing further calculations on the data. Using a type of analysis never before used in an investigation of this sort, they have been able to shed more light on MH370’s flight path.
Based on their new analysis, Inmarsat and the AAIB have concluded that MH370 flew along the southern corridor, and that its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth.
This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
We will be holding a press conference tomorrow with further details. In the meantime, we wanted to inform you of this new development at the earliest opportunity. We share this information out of a commitment to openness and respect for the families, two principles which have guided this investigation.
Malaysia Airlines have already spoken to the families of the passengers and crew to inform them of this development. For them, the past few weeks have been heartbreaking; I know this news must be harder still. I urge the media to respect their privacy, and to allow them the space they need at this difficult time.
PM NAJIB RAZAK’S PRESS STATEMENT ON MH370:
24 MARCH 2014, 10PM
This evening I was briefed by representatives from the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB). They informed me that Inmarsat, the UK company that provided the satellite data which indicated the northern and southern corridors, has been performing further calculations on the data. Using a type of analysis never before used in an investigation of this sort, they have been able to shed more light on MH370’s flight path.
Based on their new analysis, Inmarsat and the AAIB have concluded that MH370 flew along the southern corridor, and that its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth.
This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
We will be holding a press conference tomorrow with further details. In the meantime, we wanted to inform you of this new development at the earliest opportunity. We share this information out of a commitment to openness and respect for the families, two principles which have guided this investigation.
Malaysia Airlines have already spoken to the families of the passengers and crew to inform them of this development. For them, the past few weeks have been heartbreaking; I know this news must be harder still. I urge the media to respect their privacy, and to allow them the space they need at this difficult time.
End.
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