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Via the Oz:

Victim families angered at further delay to MH370 search report

A modified Boeing 777 flaperon tested in waters near Hobart to help determine the final resting place of MH370.

Ean Higgins
The Australian
12:00AM June 30, 2017

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has conceded it could be another three months before it releases its report on its failed search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, further angering families of the 239 victims.

The ATSB had indicated to family members that the report on the $200 million underwater hunt would be finished and published about now.

But ATSB spokesman Daniel O’Malley has now told The Australian, “we anticipate that the report will be released in the third quarter of this year”, meaning it could be published as late as the end of September.

The two-year search of 120,000sq km of ocean, funded by Australia, China and Malaysia but directed by the ATSB, ended in January without finding a trace of the aircraft.
The ATSB came under considerable scrutiny from scientists who had suggested relatively early on that drift modelling of debris from the aircraft found on the other side of the Indian Ocean indicated it came down further north than the area searched.

Some senior airline pilots and air crash investigators claim the ATSB’s strategy was flawed from the start because it assumed the Boeing 777 had crashed in a pilotless “death dive” rather than being flown to the end and outside the search area by a rogue pilot.

MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014 on a scheduled flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Primary radar and automatic satellite tracking data indicate it doubled back over Malaysia 40 minutes in, before turning south on a long track to the southern Indian Ocean.

There is an expectation that the report on the search could be used by the ATSB to advance its tacit campaign to have the three governments relaunch the survey in a new 25,000sq km area north of the old one.

Queensland’s Danica Weeks, who lost her husband Paul on MH370, said the continuing delay in the ATSB’s formulation of its report was increasing the angst of the families.

“This is our lives they are playing with. We think of loved ones 24/7 and how this could happen; we hang on any, every information that surrounds MH370 and always will until the answers are forthcoming,” Ms Weeks told The Australian.

“If the ATSB had crossed their ‘t’s’ and dotted their ‘i’s’ on the search, why would it take nine months to produce a report? It’s inconceivable.”

Despite the plea from Ms Weeks, Mr O’Malley would not provide a clearer timeline for the release of the report, or explain why it had been delayed.

The delay comes amid continuing outrage among victims’ families at the refusal of the bureau’s chief commissioner, Greg Hood, to grant a Freedom of Information request from The Australian to release assessments of its “death dive” theory by a panel of international experts looking at the satellite data.

The lack of resolution on MH370 also sparked debate about the need for recorders that could be more readily found after crashes. Airbus has said it will equip its aircraft with new cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders able to record up to 25 hours of information. One will “be deployed automatically in case of significant structural deformation or ... submersion”.

Why are people surprised that the Malaysians, with the assistance of top-cover Muppet Hoody, O&O-ing the MH370 ICAO Annex 13 Final Report (Refer PelAir MKII here: PelAir re-re update ) -


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