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MH370 Final Report - 

This afternoon the MH370 ICAO Annex 13 JIT team, after firstly briefing the NOK, will release their final report. 

News coverage, 1st from Channel News Asia:

Malaysia to release report on missing flight MH370 on Jul 30



[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5)]A man looks at a message board for passengers, onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, during its fourth annual remembrance event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia March 3, 2018. REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin/Files[/color]
20 Jul 2018 01:45PM (Updated: 20 Jul 2018 02:01PM)

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will release on Jul 30 a long-awaited report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the transport minister said on Friday (Jul 20).

In May, Malaysia called off a privately-funded underwater search for the aircraft, which became one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries when it vanished with 239 aboard en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on Mar 8, 2014.

The investigation team would brief families of those aboard on the report at the transport ministry on July 30, said the minister, Anthony Loke.

"Every word recorded by the investigation team will be tabled in this report," he told reporters, adding that a news conference would follow the closed-door briefing.

"We are committed to the transparency of this report," Loke added. "It will be tabled fully, without any editing, additions, or redactions."

The report will be put online, with hard copies distributed to families and accredited media, among others, Loke said, adding, "The whole international community will have access to the report."

Voice 370, a group representing the relatives, has previously urged the Malaysian government for a review of the flight, including "any possible falsification or elimination of records related to MH370 and its maintenance".

The only confirmed traces of the Boeing 777 aircraft have been three wing fragments washed up on Indian Ocean coasts.

The search Malaysia called off on May 29, by US-based firm Ocean Infinity, covered 112,000 sq km in the southern Indian Ocean within three months, ending with no significant new findings.

It was the second major search after Australia, China and Malaysia ended a fruitless AUS$200-million (US$147.06 million) search across an area of 120,000 sq km last year.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said Malaysia would consider resuming the search if new clues came to light.

Source: Reuters/aa
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asi...0-10547524

And from the ABC:

MH370 report: Queensland woman furious at 48-hour notice to attend briefing in Malaysia
ABC Sunshine Coast
By Kathy Sundstrom and Sarah Howells
Posted 43 minutes ago Mon 30 Jul 2018, 12:24pm



Photo: Danica Weeks still does not know what happened to her husband Paul, who was onboard MH370 when it disappeared in March 2014. (Supplied: Danica Weeks)
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A Queensland woman has been left fuming after being given only 48 hours notice to attend a government briefing in Kuala Lumpur on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Danica Weeks's husband Paul was among the 239 people aboard the Boeing 777 when it vanished between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing in March 2014.

The Malaysian Government is today releasing its final report on its investigation into the missing plane, but with two days' notice to travel 6000 kilometres, the Sunshine Coast mum said it was impossible for her to attend.

"I couldn't turn myself around in 48 hours to get there," Ms Weeks said.

"I wanted to be there, to be briefed on the report, I've been waiting to see what is in it."
Ms Weeks said if she had been given more notice of the briefing and that the flights would be paid for, she would have made sure she was there.

She is angry she will miss out on her opportunity to ask questions of the government as to what happened.

"We miss out on the one-to-one question time," she said.

Travel confusion 'a slap in the face'

A representative from a Malaysian support group phoned Ms Weeks early last week and advised there would be a briefing today, but that the families would need to get there at their own expense.

Ms Weeks ruled that out, but was then advised on Thursday that "they were going to pay for our flights."

She was also concerned whether any of the Australian families would make the briefing in time.

"They would be in the same boat as me, with not enough time to organise getting there," she said.



Photo: Graphic of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that last had contact with air traffic controllers on March 8, 2014. (ABC News)

"I'm very angry, that this offer came with only 48 hours to get over there.

"I would have jumped at the chance to ask questions about where my husband is, what happened.

"It is a slap in the face again that we couldn't be there to get the briefing."
Ms Weeks said her children desperately needed answers she was unable to give.
"We need to know, we can't just lose a Boeing," she said.

"This is ludicrous that this can be unsolved.

"I hoped to have answers."

Last goodbye



Photo: Danica Weeks was hoping to hear first-hand from today's Malaysian Government report into what happened to flight MH370 on which her husband Paul was a passenger. (Facebook: Danica Weeks)

Ms Weeks waved goodbye to husband Paul as he boarded the flight from Perth to Beijing via Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014.

It has become the biggest aviation mystery involving a Boeing 777.

A privately funded search for the missing plane was called off in May.

Ms Weeks and the other families had been waiting for this Malaysian Government report which they hope will shed light on what happened.

But Ms Weeks is not getting her hopes up.

"Once bitten, twice shy, I'm worried they are not going to give much information," she said.

She will have to wait until the media briefing from the Malaysian Government to find out what happened.

"My next step is speaking with the Deputy Prime Minister [Michael McCormack] to ask, 'now that this report is out, where do we go from here?'

"Our loved ones are on that plane, we want answers. Something happened."

Ms Weeks's theory remains something happened to the plane and it had nothing to do with the pilot.

"I believe something happened with the plane and the pilot tried to turn around.
"The plane might have been on autopilot for seven hours before it dropped in the ocean.
"That's my theory, but it is still just such a mystery. I hope one day we will have the answers."

 
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