Malaysia Releases Report on Investigation into Missing Jetliner
The Malaysian government has released a preliminary report of its investigation into Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, CNN reports.
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According to CNN, the report does not explain what happened during those fours hours, does not mention the military’s role that night, and recommends the use of real-time tracking (though it is not required for such aircraft).
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The report was released today by Malaysia’s Ministry of Transport, which had also sent it to the United Nations’s International Civil Aviation Organization.
As the report was released, Malaysia Airlines told the families of the passengers to return home to wait for news of the search, the Associated Press reports.
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The missing jetliner lost contact on March 8 about 40 minutes into a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The jetliner was carrying 12 crew members and 227 passengers.
For more than seven weeks, a massive international search effort has been underway to find the Boeing 777. On Tuesday, Malaysian officials said the underwater search will be expanded. Officials also said radar and satellite data showed the plane veered off course for unknown reasons, and analysis indicated that it likely ran out of fuel in a remote section of the Indian ocean — the same area where the search has been focused.
The Australian agency leading the search effort has also dismissed a recent claim by a company that it found possible wreckage in the Bay of Bengal, according to the Associated Press.
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