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A face to IIC (Annex 13) of MH370

Probably the bloke with the most unenviable job in Malaysia right now, courtesy of malaysiakini : 

 

MH370 The prophetic tagline, 'non-stop', seems to play a significant role in the life of Kok Soo Chon, the investigator-in-charge of the Malaysian ICAO Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team for MH370.

As a matter of fact, airline thriller 'Non-Stop' was the movie he was watching with his wife at a cinema in Petaling Jaya on March 8, 2014 - the day Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished from the radar.

The jetliner's disappearance has since become one of the strangest mysteries in aviation history.

For Kok, the title of the movie has inadvertently impacted his high-profile work.

Non-stop, has since been his routine after he was roped in to helm the independent international investigation team on the disappearance of the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft.

"The name of the show... you believe it or not, is 'Non-Stop. Now, this job is non-stop," said Kok, 65, who is also former Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) director-general.
The Malaysian ICAO Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team for MH370 comprises 19 Malaysians and seven accredited representatives of the safety authorities from seven countries.

They are the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), Civil Aviation Administration of China, France's Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses, Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee, Singapore's Air Accident Investigation Bureau, United Kingdom's Air Accidents Investigation Branch and the National Transportation Safety Board of the United States.

Flight MH370, with 239 passengers and crew on board, disappeared from the radar while enroute to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014.

The jetliner has yet to be found although massive search operations were conducted in the southern Indian Ocean where the aircraft is believed to have ended its flight path after diverting from its original route.

Flaperon found
In July last year, a flaperon was found washed ashore on Reunion Island, off France and on Aug 6 last year, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak confirmed it belonged to Flight MH370.

Kok said his working hours were non-stop as he was required to coordinate massive investigation from among team members from different part of the world.

He will make full use of technology such as tele-conferecing and emails to get in touch.
"We do need to communicate late at night. And the first thing I do before I go to work and before I go to bed is look at my laptop," he said.

Kok said the investigation team was committed to do its best and determine the truth behind the vanishing of Flight MH370.

"We are trying our best to find whatever truth we can find in our report so that everyone will know what happened on that fateful day," he said.

The chief investigator said team members were very committed and working relations with the experts, very encouraging and cordial in finding the truth.

The investigation team had released an interim statement and a factual information on the MH370 incident at its first anniversary last year and for this year, it issued an interim statement.

For Kok, the truth is out there.

Until the intrepid investigator-in-charge and his fellow investigators get to the bottom to unravel the mystery behind Flight MH370's disappearance, the task will continue - non-stop.
- Bernama

MTF...P2
Ps When I first saw that headline I thought - Oh no he we go again, what bollocks is Beaker coming out with now
Pps What an unfortunate name