Apr 01, 2014 16:51
By Andy Lines
Mirror NEWS
Angus Houston raised the example of the ship HMAS Sydney, which was lost off Western Australia during the second world war and was not discovered until 2008
Warning: Angus Houston speaks at a news conference
The air chief leading the hunt for missing flight MH370 raised the frightening prospect that the plane may never be found.
Air Chief Marshall Angus Houston tackled the issue relatives of passengers are refusing to even contemplate.
He is heading the search for the Boeing 777 which is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean with 239 passengers and crew on board.
But after almost four weeks there has been no sign of the plane whatsoever.
Mr Houston said: “We have a starting point and we need to pursue the search with vigour and we need to do that for some time to come.
“Inevitably, if we don’t find wreckage on the surface, we are eventually going to have to, probably in consultation with everybody who has a stake in this, review what we do next.
“It will take time. It’s not necessarily something that is going to be resolved in the next two weeks, for example.”
Houston raised the example of the ship HMAS Sydney, which was lost off Western Australia during the second world war and was not discovered until 2008.
“We’ve got much better technology now ... but we are working from a very uncertain starting point,” he said.
He was speaking as the full transcript of the conversation between the pilots on missing Malaysian Flight 370 and the control tower was released.
It starts before the Boeing 777 took off from Kuala Lumpur airport and ends at 1.19am.
Hope: Chinese relatives of passengers pray
Experts said it shed little light on what happened to the plane in the hours following the transponder being turned off.
The conversation was entirely regular and did not give any clues to the state of either pilots’ minds.
But the last words of the pilot were different to those originally claimed by officials.
One of the pilots said: “Good Night Malaysian Three Seven Zero.”
The hunt for the missing plane continued overnight in the southern Indian Ocean.
There was further concern in the airline industry about the entire incident.
International Air Transport Association (Iata) director general Tony Tyler said there is “disbelief” that MH370 “could simply disappear” and a plane must “never again go missing in this way”.
He went on: “In a world where our every move seems to be tracked, there is disbelief both that an aircraft could simply disappear and that the flight data and cockpit voice recorders are so difficult to recover.”
He said that the Air France 447 incident, when a plane crashed into the Atlantic in June 2009 claiming 228 lives, had “brought similar issues to light a few years ago and some progress was made”.
Mr Tyler went on: “But that must be accelerated. We cannot let another aircraft simply vanish.”
Search for Malaysia Plane MH370 - 1/4/14
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Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) captain, Wing Commander Rob Shearer, looks out from the cockpit of a P3 Orion maritime search aircraft while flying over the southern Indian Ocean looking for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 March 31, 2014. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Monday the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 had no time limit, despite the failure of an international operation to find any sign of the plane in three weeks of fruitless searching. A total of 20 aircraft and ships were again scouring a massive area in the Indian Ocean some 2,000 km (1,200 miles) west of Perth, where investigators believe the Boeing 777 carrying 239 people came down
Speaking at an Iata conference in Kuala Lumpur, Mr Tyler said: “Speculation will not make flying any safer.
"We should not jump to any conclusions on probable cause before the investigation into MH370 closes.
“There are, however, at least two areas of process - aircraft tracking and passenger data - where there are clearly challenges that need to be overcome.”
Last night it emerged new new security measures have been introduced on all Malaysian Airlines flights to ensure that no-one interferes with the controls following the mystery disappearance of flight MH370, it was revealed today.
As speculation continued to rage over whether the plane’s fate was due to a criminal act by someone on the Boeing 777, or whether it suffered a catastrophic event that caused it to go out of control, the airline said it had increased cockpit security.
It has added an extra crew member in the cockpit when one of the plane’s two pilots takes a toilet break, ensuring that there are always two officers at the controls.
Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-flight-mh370-malaysia-airlines-3337287#ixzz2xfJNy2Rl
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