tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27213416837382397192024-03-13T08:30:20.422-07:00Aircraft InvestigationAircraft Investigation is exactly what it says; an investigation and examination of the aviation industry—good and bad. It is critical analysis, just as much as a reflection of what has occurred in the first six months of 2014 with the lost of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 and the shooting down of MH17. few months and where the industry is going. But Aircraft Investigation is also a celebration of the developments in modern commercial aircraft and passenger flight.Mick Rooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15787268101730723300noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2721341683738239719.post-18346714712952373812022-11-17T05:14:00.004-08:002022-11-17T05:14:52.733-08:00LIVESTREAM - MH17 judgment day: Verdicts due against 4 suspects at trial<p> </p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o-8VKPlUUKM" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Mick Rooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15787268101730723300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2721341683738239719.post-36083138218280115422022-03-06T19:53:00.001-08:002022-03-06T19:53:53.435-08:00Radio Espial - Episode 20: MH370 Remembrance and News Update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEia9ypsMJRx9oAQU5Jdd-kPhQrEAlUdfVOpcQ2VCHbYl5pOmLmutuydk262HczzPpXgJQCNkLfy4x8LXbHv2UjBbdI5dYu9xKJCwpYu-vw6Th2qI8U2bFwscng58R36-5t4H6I5wfaHo3E9n3vhyNXHRa1TFXZoTLPWVoiTyHm-kwuYIaZ9EvwnXsneww=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEia9ypsMJRx9oAQU5Jdd-kPhQrEAlUdfVOpcQ2VCHbYl5pOmLmutuydk262HczzPpXgJQCNkLfy4x8LXbHv2UjBbdI5dYu9xKJCwpYu-vw6Th2qI8U2bFwscng58R36-5t4H6I5wfaHo3E9n3vhyNXHRa1TFXZoTLPWVoiTyHm-kwuYIaZ9EvwnXsneww=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><br />Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Malaysia Airlines that disappeared on the 8th March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia to its planned destination, Beijing Capital International Airport.<div><br /></div><div>The crew last communicated with air traffic control around 38 minutes after takeoff when the flight was over the South China Sea. The aircraft was lost from ATC radar screens minutes later, but was tracked by military radar for another hour, deviating westwards from its planned flight path, crossing the Malay Peninsula and Andaman Sea. It left radar range 200 nautical miles (370 km) northwest of Penang Island in northwestern Peninsular Malaysia and is believed hours later to have crashed in the Southern Indian Ocean.</div><div><br /></div><div>This Radio Episode features the 8th Remembrance Event and the guest speakers as part of a case update.<div><br /></div><div>
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Blaine Alan Gibson, adventurer and debris finder, joins Radio Espial presenter Mick Rooney for episode 13 to discuss aviation and the latest news on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. What are the plausible possibilities and how has the media (mainstream and social) dealt with the case?</div>
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Michael Glynn, retired Qantas captain, joins Radio Espial presenter Mick Rooney as we approach the 6th year remembrance to discuss aviation and the latest news on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. What are the plausible possibilities and how has the media (mainstream and social) dealt with the case?</div>
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Mick Rooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15787268101730723300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2721341683738239719.post-24723484210293294232019-03-05T23:45:00.000-08:002019-03-05T23:45:18.922-08:00Radio Espial: Episode 11 - Kristyna Pokorna Interview | Malaysia Airlines MH370Kristyna Pokorna joins Radio Espial presenter Mick Rooney on the 5th year remembrance to discuss the latest news on missing flight Malaysia Airlines MH370 and her trip to interview eyewitnesses in the Maldives.<br /><br />
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Today relatives of passengers and crew of missing flight MH370 met with the Malaysia Transport Minister, Anthony Loke Siew Fook, to hand over five more suspected pieces of MH370 debris found by members of the public on the island of Madagascar. The small debris pieces were found between December 2016 and as recently as August 2018 and followed a public awareness campaign visit undertaken by several relatives during 2016.</div>
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Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on March 8th, 2014 while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The Boeing 777-200ER was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew. The aircraft is believed to have turned back off the coast of Malaysia 40 minutes after departing Kuala Lumpur International Airport, failed to contact Vietnam Air Traffic Control, and inexplicably flew for a further seven hours into the southern Indian Ocean without normal communications (radio and data reporting) except for a series of satellite pings (or handshakes) recorded by British company Inmarsat. Despite initial and extensive sea surface searches over a period of eight weeks and two subsequent underwater seabed searches covering almost a quarter of a million square kilometers in the Indian Ocean, no seabed wreckage site has ever been discovered.</div>
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However, since July 2015, 15 months after its disappearance, fragments of aircraft debris have been discovered on the coast of Africa and island states to the east like Reunion, Mauritius and Madagascar. Other debris pieces have been discovered on the coasts of Tanzania, Mozambique and as far as South Africa.</div>
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Officially, some 35 pieces of debris have been passed (or they are aware of) to the Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team. Two pieces remain under a criminal investigation in Madagascar following the assassination of Malaysia consular Zahid Raza in the capital Antananarivo just before he was due to hand over the debris to a DHL depot for transport to Malaysia authorities. Police on the island of Madagascar do not believe Raza's assassination was related to the case of MH370. One other piece of debris, a right wing flaperon found on Reunion island, remains under the judicial custody of France, though it has be conclusively linked to 9M-MRO, the registered aircraft servicing flight MH370. Other debris examined by the Australian ATSB have also been identified as belonging to 9M-MRO or 'almost certain' to belong to it through part numbers, serial numbers, maintenance records or logo and stencil evidence.</div>
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One of the five pieces of debris delivered today by relatives to the Malaysia MOT has already been identified by Independent Group (IG) investigator Don Thompson. He quickly spotted a partial quality placard ID and discovered that the debris was in fact a floor panel used by Boeing in its 777-200ER production (BAC27WPPS61). Thompson's analysis report <a bis_size="{"x":442,"y":1081,"w":103,"h":17,"abs_x":742,"abs_y":1229}" href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/qnms6wmtypddheo/2018-11-29%20Floor%20Panel%20Analysis%20-%20Don%20Thompson.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">is available here</a> and he has corroborated his findings with floor debris from the Ukraine crash site of MH17 bearing the same placard marking.</div>
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This latest debris is again small and highly fragmented. Internal and external. It consistently supports the hypothesis that flight MH370's end was catastrophic and a high-speed sea impact. There is simply no other conclusion to reach and speculative and fanciful theories of some form of slow-speed ditching are increasingly looking unfounded without any evidence to support them.</div>
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In July 2018, the MH370 Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team, headed by Kok Soo Chon (who attended the relatives' debris handover and press conference), delivered a full report from his investigation team but could provide no definitive conclusions about the missing flight and what caused the events of March 8th, 2014. His team could only conclude that investigators do not know what happened to the Malaysian Airlines plane and third-party interference could not be ruled out, but they found no evidence to support nefarious actions.</div>
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Minister Loke and Annex 13 lead Kok were somewhat muted today. There was little to be said beyond the consistently stated line that a new search must be approved by the Malaysia government cabinet, regardless of whether it a 'no-cure, no-fee' or not, and that a new search cannot begin without 'credible evidence' being produced and leads directly to the seabed wreckage. The implication is that the Malaysia authorities now want to be externally hand-held by independent parties and groups and almost taken to 'X' marks the spot without further effort on their part.</div>
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Today, you sensed that Loke was<i bis_size="{"x":227,"y":1495,"w":56,"h":17,"abs_x":527,"abs_y":1643}"><b bis_size="{"x":227,"y":1495,"w":56,"h":17,"abs_x":527,"abs_y":1643}"> hosting </b></i>a press conference at the MOT HQ for the relatives, like a reluctant host throwing a party he never wanted to have in the first place, but felt his office (work home) was somewhat duty bound. Once the photographs were taken for the gathered press, the small pieces of debris laid out on a polished wooden table, there came a few limited words, and then he slipped away out of view and reminded the relatives that this was <i bis_size="{"x":438,"y":1567,"w":68,"h":17,"abs_x":738,"abs_y":1715}"><b bis_size="{"x":438,"y":1567,"w":68,"h":17,"abs_x":738,"abs_y":1715}">their press</b></i> conference with a wave of the hand on his turf. A kind of subtle - <i bis_size="{"x":282,"y":1585,"w":134,"h":17,"abs_x":582,"abs_y":1733}">I'll leave you to it, so</i>.</div>
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On a no find no fee basis why on earth does there need to be new credible evidence? That's just bullshit, Malaysia has absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain. If it were the government actually funding a search then their requirement for more solid evidence would be understandable, but this reluctance, when there's no cost to them is not the actions of a government that truly wants to find their aircraft.</div>
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The American seabed exploration company Ocean Infinity, which spent three months searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, has ended its mission in the southern Indian Ocean.</div>
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The company’s “No Cure No Fee” contract with the Malaysian government ended on May 29, but Ocean Infinity continued to scour the ocean depths with its state-of-the-art Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and only brought its search to an end early yesterday morning (Friday), local time.</div>
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MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board when en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.</div>
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Despite lengthy searches in the southern Indian Ocean – initially by an Australian-led team – not a trace of the plane has been found. The only debris discovered that is believed to have come from MH370 has been found off the coast of Africa.</div>
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The Australia-led search went on for 1,046 days and was suspended on January 17 last year. An area spanning more than 120,000 square kilometres was scoured.</div>
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Ocean Infinity has searched, and collected data from, an area far in excess of the initial 25,000-square-kilometre target. The company has not yet made a final announcement about the total area searched, but it is estimated to be at least 125,000 square kilometres.</div>
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READ THIS <a href="https://changingtimes.media/2018/06/09/mh370-ocean-infinity-search-ends-amid-calls-for-new-disclosures-and-further-investigation/" target="_blank">FULL ARTICLE ON CHANGING TIMES MEDIA</a>.</div>
Mick Rooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15787268101730723300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2721341683738239719.post-90713598246898555802018-01-15T19:34:00.000-08:002018-01-15T19:34:29.051-08:00A Renewed Search, A New Company, But the Search and Questions Go On For MH370 Families<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last week the Malaysia Ministry of Transport (MOT) and its Department
of Civil Aviation (DCA) signed a deal to pay a Houston-based seabed exploration
company, Ocean Infinity, up to $70 million (USD) if it is successful and finds convincing
and credible proof of where the seabed wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines flight
MH370 lies. And the contractual caveats? Ocean Infinity, and the 65-strong crew
of its leased vessel, Seabed Constructor, must do it within 90 days of reaching
the newly designated search area, identified by the ATSB and its partners when
it published its Final Search report at the end of 2017. This area includes a 25,000-sq-km
priority area and potentially beyond (separated into four divisions: primary,
subsequent, tertiary and supplementary).<br />
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The public may not be aware that slides were presented at the contract announcement and media event.<br />
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<b>THE REAL DEAL?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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But there are a few more catches to this deal. It is based
on what is known in the marine industry as ‘no cure-no fee’ – if you turn up
nothing, you get nothing, and Ocean Infinity and its financers and shareholders
will have to bear the brunt of all the operational costs, upfront. Oh, and
Malaysia Transport Minister, Liow Tiong Lai, insists that this will also mean
that Ocean Infinity must provide proof of aircraft seabed wreckage – without removing
it from the seabed, unless Malaysia gives the okay – and convince Boeing, the manufacturer
in Seattle, that it is from the ill-fated aircraft, registered 9M-MRO, the very
Boeing 777-200ER which operated flight MH370 on the morning of March 8<sup>th</sup>,
2014 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. So, no indistinct blurry images or ‘yep, it’s
definitely down there – we saw it’ will see a single cent exchanging accounts
with a spit and a handshake.</div>
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It’s not a position Fugro Worldwide found itself in when in
2014 it was awarded the tender by the three primary nation partners involved
(Malaysia, Australia, China), and Australia’s ATSB was tasked with overseeing
the operational activities and search that covered initially 60,000-sq-km,
later expanded in 2015/16 to 120,000-sq-km. Indeed, though constantly dealing
with seasonal weather, a search that once began with four vessels – then there
was one – and an extensive bathymetric seabed scan before towfish sonar could
be deployed, Fugro never had a time constrain beyond getting the job done and
finding the aircraft resting place.</div>
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Undeterred, and much to the credit of the Dutch-based
company, Fugro, it did offer to search again, considering it had the experience
and at least one vessel in place. The initial seabed search came to its
conclusion in January 2017. Malaysia mulled and became silent but for another
interim report on the third anniversary, which told the world little or nothing
more, and then it fell silent for months.</div>
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<b>VOICE370<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Voice370, the official family support group for relatives of
those on board MH370, began to sense an impending and permanent limbo, despite that
the previous 12 months had seen the discovery of multiple pieces of debris on
the east coast of Africa – some proven to be from 9M-MRO, some ‘almost
certainly’, a few very likely to be aircraft composite pieces, still many pieces
unknown and likely always to remain that way. The most significant pieces discovered
were a flaperon, an outboard wing flap, and the now almost infamous ‘NO STEP’
and the painfully but humbly-referred-to piece of debris called ‘ROY’ (part of
the engine cowling casing from one of Rolls Royce’s Trent 800s sporting its
emblem manufacturer RR badge).</div>
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In a world where there has been so little information, so
little data, so many unanswered questions, some of the relatives of MH370 took
solace in being able to meet the crew of Fugro’s search vessel, the ATSB, and
witness the outboard flap found in Tanzania in 2016 in Canberra, Australia
later that year. Just to be in the ATSB’s facility, in the same room as a piece
of 9M-MRO, was both a profound and upsetting experience to be so close to
something which had itself been close to their loved ones on the morning of
March 8<sup>th</sup>, 2014. </div>
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But Voice370 grew frustrated with the lack of information
from Malaysia, increasing delays with debris being picked up from local civil
aviation authorities and at the time of the third anniversary decided they
would have to take matters into their own hands, having travelled to east
Africa at their own expense to raise awareness about potential coastal debris,
they began to reach out to aviation experts, oceanographers, wreckage hunters
and influencers prepared to assist them in funding an independent search for
the seabed wreckage and their loved ones.</div>
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While they began to reach out and explore this, they
discovered that one company had already tabled an offer to the Malaysia
government to search on, and it was not Fugro. Above all else, as the weeks and
months passed, Voice370 discovered this offer was based on a ‘no cure-no fee’
basis. The group believed an announcement would surely be imminent. Then the
ATSB released its final report, concluding new refinement of an area of
25,000-sq-km north of the original larger search site. Silence from Malaysia, a
ministerial release that a tripartite meeting might happen, maybe October,
maybe November, and they were preparing their own final report, maybe before
the end of 2017. But nothing more.</div>
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Voice370 went public with what the little they knew about
the offer by Ocean Infinity, but that it did exist and had for some
considerable time. Ocean Infinity maintained its silence and continued to test
its advanced AUV Hugin equipment. Sea wreck hunter David Mearns went public and
made it clear he had been in contact with the group and was prepared to assist
them with an independent search. David Gallo, of Woods Oceangrahic – which had
been involved in the final search for Air France AF447 – joined the increasing
pressure that something must happen and decisions needed to be made by those in
charge of the investigation and search.</div>
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Ultimately, the lead investigative nation, Malaysia, knowing
they had to deliver a Final Report to ICAO by mid January 2018, the one-year expiry
after the official seabed search had been suspended, having somewhat slow-walked
themselves down a dead-end alley, succumbed to the pressure, announced that,
yes, they had been considering three possible offers of continuing the search,
but had a preference for one. A lull of several weeks late 2017 was followed by
an announcement that the Malaysia interior cabinet had approved the potential
release of up to $70m, but only on the understanding a new search would be
successful.</div>
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Almost immediately, Ocean Infinity, a company that did not
exist a year ago, with a 6-year lease on a vessel called Seabed Constructor,
which had been testing its 6 Hugin AUVs in the south English Channel, returned
to Bristol port, and then departed across the Atlantic Ocean. The Chess Game
began.</div>
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Malaysia stalled on a decision. Ocean Infinity upped its
game, rolling out social media and website updates to show off its technology and
that it was far ahead of what had already been deployed on previous sea search
missions. Then at SUT, Senior Advisor Survey & AUV Operations Director at
Swire Seabed (Norway), Jan-Ingulfsen<a href="https://www.sut.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Jan-Ingulfsen-distribution-approved-PPT-at-v2-Ocean-Infinity-Perth-distribution.pdf">,
laid the path for Ocean Infinity</a>, and it became very apparent that Ocean
Infinity had very significant financial backers and stakeholders behind it, notwithstanding
its existing partnerships with SeaTrepid and others. This was no longer a misty
farm on the hills in winter with flying pigs and promises of a crock of gold at
the end of the rainbow. One of the first questions Minister Liow asked Ocean
Infinity in November in London was – <i>can you
assure us you can finance this and that it will not fail because you ran out of
money? We cannot provide money at the end if you do not have it all at the
start.</i> He got his answer at that meeting. And the deal was done, bar him
having to convince his cabinet colleagues a few weeks later. This was always
shaping up to be a with or without you.</div>
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By the time of reaching Durban port, Ocean Infinity’s
vessel, Seabed Constructor, received two new Hugins, which were loaded, as well
as the vessel receiving Inmarsat high-grade antennas to its hull in dry-dock.
The vessel departed Durban to conduct two sea trial tests, critically, to
deploy all eight Hugin AUVs at one time and test the full operation, and to
test them all at depths of up to 6,000 metres. As of January 13<sup>th</sup>,
these tests went well; though Ocean Infinity reported some minor glitches, and
they decided to remain in the test area to resolve these first. This meant
backtracking on some test areas to ensure everything was working. The vessel
then departed for the priority search area late January 13<sup>th</sup> and is
expected to arrive there around the 20<sup>th</sup>/21<sup>st</sup>, a few days
after they had hoped to arrive. However, given the 90-day timeframe, Ocean
Infinity does not believe this will play any factor. They are hoping to
complete the first phase of search within 26-28 days, but this will require one
visit back to port to resupply.</div>
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Ocean Infinity will be paid $20 million if the plane is
found within 5,000 sq km, $30 million if it is found within 10,000 square km
and $50 million if it is found within an area of 25,000 square km. Beyond that
area, Ocean Infinity will receive $70 million.</div>
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I appreciate some of the below details may be difficult for
some NOK, but the reality is that this search must have priorities, and any
search after this period of time must have technical priorities. The priority
is to locate – first the wreckage site, then to identify the data flight and
cockpit recorders. If successful, Ocean Infinity will then, if time allows, try
and grid the area.</div>
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Ocean Infinity will require authorisation to extract
anything from the site, even though they have some equipment capable of doing
that for small objects like the recorders. That authorisation will remain with
the Malaysia government. Difficult as this is, extraction of human remains is
not part of this search phase and will be dealt with at a later date when a
full grid is provided of the seabed wreckage and an agreed salvage plan is implemented.
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Seabed Constructor carries eight AUVs (autonomous underwater
vehicles) that will search the seabed with scanning equipment for information
to be sent back for analysis. Once the AUVs are recovered by Seabed Constructor
(SC), the data is downloaded onboard the vessel.</div>
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SC has 65 crew and almost half of Ocean Infinity’s staff
(about 20) is onboard the vessel. There are two government representatives
drawn from the Malaysian navy who will act as monitors for the Malaysia
government. Some of SC’s crew also work for Swire and SeaTrepid because they
have extensive experience working with this equipment. Like Fugro’s vessel
staff, they are deeply committed to this and we should not underestimate the
day-to-day risks they take. They have been training and preparing for this for
months.</div>
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<b>Further reading:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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You can see my interview with Voice370 representative, <a href="http://www.mh370investigation.com/2018/01/radio-espial-episode-7-grace-nathan.html">Grace
Nathan here</a> and also view <a href="https://oceaninfinity.com/">Ocean Infinity</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grace Nathan of Voice370 lost her mother Anne Daisy on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. She joined presenter Mick Rooney on Radio Espial to discuss the journey for relatives of passengers and crew of the missing aircraft over the past four years. Last week the Malaysia government announced a renewed search for the seabed wreckage of the aircraft in the South Indian Ocean after it contracted exploration company Ocean Infinity.</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="a7hgp-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Families of passengers and crew have been increasing the pressure on authorities in Malaysia and Australia to resume searching in an area north of the original 120,000 square kilometre search zone in the southern Indian Ocean. This follows the recent disclosure that marine and drift analysis experts at CSIRO working with the official search bodies had significantly refined their drift models based on debris found over the past two years on the East an South African coastlines, including islands like Mauritius, Madagascar and Reunion.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4d6np-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Voice370, the official representative body of MH370 families, yesterday <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MH370Families/photos/a.701793003213758.1073741830.680170695375989/1501205846605799/?type=3&theater" target="_blank">released a statement</a> saying they had been prepared to privately fund their own independent search but they were aware recently that a US-based sea exploration company, <a href="https://oceaninfinity.com/" target="_blank">Ocean Infinity</a>, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysia-airlines-mh-idUSKBN1AI1B4?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29" target="_blank">had already offered (for free)</a> to search for the seabed wreckage of the missing aircraft which disappeared on the morning of March 8th, 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board. Voice370 understands that the only terms asked by Ocean Infinity is that the company is recompensed with a reward in the event it does locate the seabed wreckage of the aircraft.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4t2fd-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">It is not known exactly how long this offer has been on the table of Malaysian authorities, but Deputy Malaysian Transport Minister Aziz Kaprawi would only confirm in a text message to Reuters that authorities had received the offer, but said no decision had been made on whether it would be accepted or not. Ocean Infinity have declined to make any public statement on their offer.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="398hk-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Voice370 has been working with famed shipwreck hunter David Mearns and a number of marine and aviation experts, including data and advice from the Independent Group (IG), to launch their own funded search for the seabed wreckage of the aircraft.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fpr4j-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The official search for the aircraft was suspended in January this year following completion of a search zone of 120,000 square kilometres in the southern Indian Ocean conducted by Fugro Worldwide for the ATSB (Australian Transport & Safety Board) off the Western coast of Australia. Joint governments in Malaysia, Australia and China have steadfastly stated that the search cannot resume until 'credible new evidence leading to a precise search location' is presented to the official investigative teams. This somewhat flies in the face of reason considering Malaysian government officials have rejected commissioned analysis from CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), consistently fine-tuned and undertaken by the ATSB in Australia. The ATSB has also consistently stated that it wishes to continue the search but remains bootstrapped to the Australian government, tasked with conducting the official seabed search, and in turn the Australian government is equally bootstrapped to Malaysian authorities who remain the lead investigative nation under international aviation rules.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5nq13-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">This remains, and has been for the past three and a half years, one long, bureaucratic mess. It copper fastens why tragic and major aviation investigations, when there is a significant loss of life and no answers, needs to be taken out and away from the hands of government, restructured, and conducted under the auspices of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA). We can set down all the ground rules, conventions, treaties and agreements, but it requires commitment and adherence to those codes of conduct and skilled execution of expert practice. There is no place for government in any tragedy or disaster, particularly when it comes to aviation. By all means do the centre stage public media platitudes and resolve to fix it. But a government's role is not to become a part of the tragedy itself, only to act and support investigative recommendations. That is never going to happen when government(s) have to fund a major aviation investigation, and pick their partners and alliances. </span></div>
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Mick Rooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15787268101730723300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2721341683738239719.post-64361474493980862862017-01-17T09:41:00.001-08:002017-01-17T10:30:58.571-08:00MH370: There Must be a What Happens Next Until it is Found<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US">The <a href="http://jacc.gov.au/media/communiques/2017/com005.aspx">joint communiqué issued
today by the JACC</a> brings the current search of 120,000 square kilometers of
the southern Indian Ocean for the seabed wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight
MH370 to an end and the suspension of the nearly three-year search operation. The
aircraft with 239 people on board went missing on the morning of March 8<sup>th</sup>,
2014. The now infamous phrase, “in the absence of credible new evidence leading
to the identification of a specific location of the aircraft” was again used in
today’s communiqué and has become something of a chant by government officials
when asked by the media—<i>what happens
next?</i> It was first used in <a href="http://jacc.gov.au/media/communiques/2016/com004.aspx">a previous JACC communiqué
in July 2016</a> following a tripartite meeting of senior ministers from
Australia, Malaysia and the People's Republic of China in Putrajaya, Malaysia, which
discussed what arrangements should be made in the event the wreckage of the
missing aircraft was <b><i>not</i></b> located.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Today, I
guess we finally got our answer to that—<i>nothing</i>.
There are no arrangements, actually: barring—of course—someone or something
turning up on the doorstep of the JACC that miraculously cracks the bureaucratic
and carefully crafted conundrum ministers from three nations have set search
teams and aircraft investigators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Go find
credible new evidence that provides an X marks the spot on the map. But there’s
just one little rule: you’re not allowed search for that credible new evidence
because we’ve suspended searching. What’s more, the recent debris found since
we first uttered this carefully crafted conundrum last July, and the latest
drift analysis based on it, doesn’t count any more as new and credible. Ha,
gotcha!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Just a
couple of weeks ago, speaking to the media, and following the release of the
First Principles Review report, Malaysian Minister of Transport, Dato' Sri Liow
Tiong Lai, was quick to remind all those gathered that the search for the
wreckage of flight MH370 cannot “just rely on assumptions”. And, yet, excluding
Inmarsat and military radar data that has never been fully disclosed to the
public in its rawest form, the ATSB’s favored EOF (End-of-Flight) scenario is
based on considerable assumptions—that the flight flew south at a constant
speed, heading and altitude, was likely on autopilot and without manual input
from the cockpit, and entered a spiral dive somewhere off the 7<sup>th</sup> arc
following fuel exhaustion. Some 120,000 square kilometers and nearly three years
later, and a second mooted 25,000 square kilometer area of “high probability”
north east of the original search zone; this favored EOF scenario is looking
increasingly like a perilous house of cards<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Government
ministers, and in particular those in Australia and Malaysia, have held
steadfast to the “credible new evidence” mantra and rebuffed any suggestions that
the conclusions of the First Principles Review report warrant the confidence
and finance needed to push on with a new search. Estimated somewhere in the
region of $50 million, it’s hard to see any real desire to look for the key to
the coffers, let alone crack open the moneybox. Is this the JACC saying; <i>we’ve done our bit, time to move on?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And if this
is the case, then I’m afraid the JACC’s <b><i>bit</i></b> is pretty miniscule, all things
considered. Equipped with the best experts and the best of technology, and a
host of independent experts standing on the sidelines and willing to help (but
having to be content with scraps of information fed to them like a game of
Russian nesting dolls), the JACC and partners told us very little and
ultimately found nothing. And, yet, it was ordinary souls walking coastlines
for months or accidental travelers and tourists who found the most tangible, physical
evidence of all that we have of 9M-MRO. Some might argue, armed with far more
than us mere mortals, the JACC had the easiest task when you consider from the
outset that it held all the known cards in the deck. Only they sat around the
table that counts and only they can speak about how really well the players worked
together and how much information was shared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It would be
easy to paint with a brushstroke all the men and women who have worked below
higher levels of management and command in the search and investigation into
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Bash the crews of Fugro Worldwide and Phoenix
International, bash the ATSB and RAAF in Australia, bash the ATC, RMAF, RMP and
DCA in Malaysia, and bash the Chinese authorities who after just a few weeks
appeared to adopt the role of reluctant bride by way of family commitment.
Maybe ICAO should have stepped in long ago and knocked heads together. Knock
yourself out bashing and blaming and pointing the finger at where you think it
all went wrong. But if the truth be told, most of these people are ordinary men
and women doing their jobs or serving in forces. Decisions and orders rarely
come from the bottom or middle up. They come from the top down, as does poor
management and execution of plans. Reserve your ire for the right people and
the right time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Today may
be the day the perilous house of cards built comes tumbling down. The two final paragraphs of the JACC communiqué are ominous for the families of those on
board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. It is the tone of those happy to erect tombstones
and memorials rather than deliver on the early promised principles of intent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">“Today’s announcement is significant for our
three countries, but more importantly for the family and friends of those on
board the aircraft. We again take this opportunity to honour the memory of
those who have lost their lives and acknowledge the enormous loss felt by their
loved ones.</span></i> </blockquote>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">“We remain hopeful that new information will
come to light and that at some point in the future the aircraft will be
located.”</span></i></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US">Indeed. Let’s
honor the memory of those who lost their lives, by all means, but honoring
memories is not going to tell us how 239 people lost their lives, and whether
the events of March 8<sup>th</sup>, 2014 will unfold again for another 239
people or more on another aircraft “at some point in the future”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Hope is not
borne of the future; it is engraved in our hearts and in our actions of the
past. We never stop searching when there are answers to be found and lessons to
be learned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I would
join with Voice370 in imploring the JACC to reconsider their rigid stance and
reevaluate what can be done and how the search for MH370 can move forward, not
fold away the tables and chairs for now as if this was the RMS Titanic and tell
us in a communiqué what they will not do.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">That is the
absolute least the families of those on flight MH370 deserve. Not to search on
for the truth, however difficult and at whatever cost would be abhorrent to
the memory of those who died and an unhealing wound upon the aviation industry we may all
live to regret <b><i>at some point in the future.</i></b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Mick Rooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15787268101730723300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2721341683738239719.post-1201747058162216452017-01-17T03:13:00.000-08:002017-01-17T03:13:18.537-08:00MH370 Families Appeal to JACC to Reconsider their Decision to Suspend Search<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In <a href="http://jacc.gov.au/media/communiques/2017/com005.aspx" target="_blank">a joint communique statement</a> issued today by the JACC, officials confirmed that the ongoing search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had been completed and would be suspended following side sonar scanning and AUV operations covering a 120,000 sq km zone of the southern Indian Ocean. This search has lasted almost three years and has failed to identify any wreckage of the aircraft on the seabed.<br />
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<b>Communique:</b><br />
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<i>Today the last search vessel has left the underwater search area. Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has not been located in the 120,000 square-kilometre underwater search area in the southern Indian Ocean. </i></div>
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<i>Despite every effort using the best science available, cutting edge technology, as well as modelling and advice from highly skilled professionals who are the best in their field, unfortunately, the search has not been able to locate the aircraft.</i><i style="font-size: 0.9em; word-spacing: 0.15em;"> </i></div>
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<i>Accordingly, the underwater search for MH370 has been suspended.</i></div>
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<i>The decision to suspend the underwater search has not been taken lightly nor without sadness. It is consistent with decisions made by our three countries in the July 2016 Ministerial Tripartite meeting in Putrajaya Malaysia.</i></div>
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<i>Whilst combined scientific studies have continued to refine areas of probability, to date no new information has been discovered to determine the specific location of the aircraft.</i></div>
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<i>We have been overwhelmed by the commitment and dedication shown by the hundreds of people involved in the search, which has been an unprecedented challenge. Their tireless work has continued to improve our knowledge of the search area and has been critical in our efforts to locate the aircraft. We would like to reiterate our utmost appreciation to the many nations that have provided expertise and assistance since the early days of this unfortunate tragedy.</i></div>
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<i>Today’s announcement is significant for our three countries, but more importantly for the family and friends of those on board the aircraft. We again take this opportunity to honour the memory of those who have lost their lives and acknowledge the enormous loss felt by their loved ones.</i></div>
<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: "Open Sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; word-spacing: 0.15em;">We remain hopeful that new information will come to light and that at some point in the future the aircraft will be located.</span> </i><br />
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Voice370, the MH370 Family Support Group, shortly afterwards issued their own statement and an appeal to the JACC to reconsider their decision to suspend the search.<br />
<img alt="Image may contain: text" src="https://scontent-amt2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15966165_10158032530465697_2192622671787571014_n.jpg?oh=1fe5924ab7d0f987bb4c20714857349b&oe=59205B31" /><i> </i>Mick Rooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15787268101730723300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2721341683738239719.post-30358177225366443102016-12-03T14:26:00.001-08:002016-12-03T14:51:15.923-08:00MH370 Family Members Begin Madagascar Visit to Encourage Coastal Debris Searches<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>(PIC - Grace Nathan)</i></td></tr>
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One thousand days have passed since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on March 8th, 2014, after its departure from Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was bound for Beijing and to this day the only trace of the aircraft has been 22 pieces of debris washed ashore off the coast of the East African continent in places like Mauritius, Madagascar, Le Reunion and mainland beaches in Tanzanian and South Africa. Some of the debris has been conclusively identified as part of 9M-MRO, the registered Boeing 777 which serviced the ill-fated flight. Other pieces of debris are "almost certainly" from the aircraft according to the official investigation team, while other pieces have yet to be identified and conclusively linked.<br />
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For the families of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, it is the only tangible and physical evidence of what remains of the aircraft and what happened their loved ones.<br />
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Frustrated by how the current search is going and the lack of answers as to what happened, recent debris finds have prompted seven relatives of those lost on flight MH370 to travel to Madagascar and raise awareness about how local communities and members of the public can assist the investigation to find debris from the aircraft washed ashore off the eastern coast of Africa.<br />
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The relatives gave a press conference today (December 3rd) at Kuala Lumpur International Airport before they departed for Madagascar for a week-long trip to raise awareness in the region about MH370.<br />
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<b>Background </b><br />
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A two-and-a-half years search of the southern Indian Ocean, which began in 2014 and was based on Malaysian military primary radar and a series of pings picked up by British-based satellite company Inmarsat, has led to a search area of 120,000 square kilometres far from the western coast of Australia. Tasked by the lead investigation team and government in Malaysia, the Australian Transport and Safety Board (ATSB) contracted Fugro and Phoenix International, using sea vessels equipped with side-scanning sonar and robotic AUV and ROVs, in an effort to locate the final seabed resting place of the aircraft and its 239 souls.<br />
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This search is due to be completed and suspended in Jan/Feb 2017 should no aircraft debris field be found on the seabed by then. On 30th March 2014, then Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott MP, established the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) to coordinate the Australian Government's support for the search into missing flight MH370.
The JACC is the coordination point for whole-of-Australian Government information, messaging and stakeholder engagement, including keeping the families of those onboard and the general public informed of the progress of the search. The JACC has made it clear that without "new credible evidence" the search in the southern Indian Ocean will be suspended.<br />
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In November 2016, all parties and representative governments in the investigation and search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 met in Australia for a three-day meeting in what was described as a back-to-basics, open-ended reassessment of all available data. The results and conclusions of this meeting will be presented in a report at some point during 2017, though a specific date has not been agreed, it is expected to take several months before the report will be publicly presented.<br />
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Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of missing flight MH370 is that the collective efforts of multiple governments and aviation bodies, a $180 million search in the southern Indian Ocean, and an official aircraft investigation has reached ground zero and produced little of real substance to address the obvious Cry for Truth into the Where, How and Why of this tragedy.<br />
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Moreover, what the official investigation has offered up as tangible and physical evidence of 9M-MRO has not come from its sea search efforts, but rather from conscientious citizens, and independent and interested parties examining what available data is made public.<br />
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What remains of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 began to wash ashore some time during 2015 as floating debris emanating from the southern Indian Ocean impact area where 9M-MRO and its souls met their end.<br />
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Johny Begue, a sanitation worker on the beaches of Le Reunion, off the eastern coast of Africa, recalls how he found wing wreckage on July 29th, 2015, later identified as a right wing flaperon.<br />
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"I was searching for something to be used to collect rubbish, and I found the stuff on the beach. I thought it was probably a part of an airplane wing. There were a lot of shellfishes attached it. My colleagues and I carried it onshore and we believed that if it was a piece of plane wreckage, then there must be some casualties. We were sad, and we wanted to put it at a proper place and mourn the victims with flowers. One of my colleagues told the local radio station about this and the radio station contacted police immediately,"</blockquote>
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Blaine Gibson, an American lawyer from Seattle, after he attended a one-year MH370 commemoration by relatives in Kuala Lumpur in 2015 was inspired to undertake a self-funded hunt coastal search for debris from the missing plane that has taken him everywhere, from the Maldives to Mauritius, Mozambique, Madagascar and Myanmar. Gibson, an adventurer and investigator by nature, sought the help of University of Western Australia (UWA) Professor of Coastal Oceanography Charitha Pattiaratchi. Pattiaratchi had been modelling the potential path of debris based on ocean currents and predictions of where impact debris would float from the area the aircraft was believed to have went down. While the eastern African coast in general was a clear area to search for coastal debris, Pattiaratchi specifically identified the coasts of Madagascar and Mozambique as primary areas that could be likely places to find aircraft debris from MH370.<br />
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Ultimately, over the period of a year, Gibson would discover more than nine pieces of debris, several have already been confirmed to come directly from 9M-MRO or certainly from a Boeing 777. And in 2016, Gibson, along with a growing list of other people like Luca Kuhn von Burgsdorff and Neels Kruger have found debris from the missing aircraft on beaches up and down the coast of Africa.<br />
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One of the most significant finds so far was a piece of 9M-MRO's right side wing flap found by a group of local fishermen on the shores of Pemba Island off the coast of Tanzania in June 2016. Recently released information by the ATSB has revealed that investigators and Boeing do not believe the wing flap or flaperon were in a deployed position for a landing/ditching end-of-flight scenario.<br />
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What is becoming increasingly troubling to relatives of those onboard MH370 is that the official investigation conducted by government and aviation authorities in Malaysia, Australia and China continue to primarily focus on a deep-sea search zone in the southern Indian Ocean which has so far found nothing of the missing aircraft.<br />
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<b>Voice370 - Search On</b><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/MH370Families/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Voice370</a> (Cry for Truth) is a supportive body set up by relatives of those onboard MH370. Following the recent joint meeting in Australia by the JACC of the official teams involved in the investigation, as part of its review and back-to-basics strategy, Voice370 has called on the investigation authorities to do more to focus on coastal debris finds and liaise with local African authorities to conduct coordinated searches for debris washed ashore. Though previously promised, no such coordinated operation has ever taken place, and potential coastal debris from flight MH370 continues to be found by ordinary citizens, not official investigators or local authorities.<br />
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It has prompted relatives to travel to Madagascar this week and next week to promote awareness of the existence of potential coastal debris, alert local communities, reach out to local authorities, and <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/em5nzf97g8e7c6d/Brochure-Madagascar-English-Final-Updated-1.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">provide a brochure</a> and action points debris finders should be aware of.<br />
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Finders of potential debris should not only follow the above guidelines, but also ensure that it is photographed 'in situ' where first found and number or lettering be carefully recorded visually and noted down in writing. Avoid taking home debris. This can lead to additional damage or corruption/contamination of what is ultimately technical and criminal evidence. Debris should be passed on to the local/national aviation authority to preserve the chain of custody of evidence. Members of Voice370 will be on hand for contact over the coming week to advise finders.<br />
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<i>(MH370 relative speaking today at KLIA before departing for Madagascar)</i><br />
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<b>Addendum</b><br />
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In November 2016 <i>Aircraft Investigation</i> obtained confidential files and documents from a secret Malaysian Police report conducted throughout 2014 on missing flight MH370. This report is detailed and runs to almost 1200 pages. It is extensive and examines the activity of operations of Malaysia Airlines, the aircraft itself, (9M-MRO), ground staff at KLIA, and activities and background of crew and passengers of MH370.<br />
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<i>Aircraft Investigation</i> is aware that other people (including those in media organisations) have chosen not only to sit and withhold much of this information from the general public, but instead to actively 'nitpick' data to feed entirely bias news stories, and cajole and intimidate family members, friends and people involved in the investigation to support scurrilous and misleading news stories purely for commercial gain. These people need to examine their own conscience when the time comes.<br />
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<i>Aircraft Investigation</i> has chosen to <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5yyxi7hdqya2ywe/AAAKA-oF92oju_JWqHpWe3FTa?dl=0" target="_blank">release files and documents from this Malaysia Police report </a>in as much context as possible and where and when disclosure of such data does not harm or compromise people named in the report. Further disclosure can be found on the <i>Aircraft Investigation</i> <a href="https://twitter.com/AirInvestigate" target="_blank">Twitter feed</a>. This continues to be an ongoing process of evaluation and disclosure.<br />
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<br />Mick Rooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15787268101730723300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2721341683738239719.post-88277564841833554242016-09-28T06:25:00.001-07:002016-09-28T06:25:44.664-07:00Full Conference: JIT presents first results of criminal investigation of MH17 crash<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2BtBEV_rAd0" width="560"></iframe>Mick Rooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15787268101730723300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2721341683738239719.post-17860276716793187392016-09-07T18:01:00.001-07:002016-09-08T08:23:28.525-07:00Secret MH370 Investigative Documents: Less About the Who and More About the How<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There has been much discussion over the past month about the existence of documents and reports related to the official investigation into Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which disappeared on March 8th, 2014, and has led to a technical and criminal investigation. The search for the aircraft is focussed in the South Indian ocean and is due to be suspended in December 2016 if no new credible evidence comes to light that leads to a refinement of the current search area or a new search elsewhere.<br /><br />Over recent days I have been in private email
exchanges with French journalist Florence de Changy, foreign correspondent, affiliated with <i>Le
Monde</i> and French National radio, regarding confidential documents she has in
her possession – confirmed both publicly (in a <i>LeMonde </i>article she wrote) and
privately to me via email.<br />
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I want to stress that Florence has not shared these documents with me, nor has
she described the specifics of what is contained in these documents or sources for her investigation
of MH370. Florence has been investigating MH370 since its disappearance and has published a book based on her investigation in March 2016; <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/VOL-MH370-NA-PAS-DISPARU/dp/2352045053" target="_blank">LE VOL MH370 N'A PAS DISPARU</a>. She is working to conclude an English version of the book with updates.<br />
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I want to thank Florence for entering into a dialogue over a number of days
that I found constructive, frank and to the point. She has outlined her reasons
and methodology for when is the right time to release confidential data and the
means it is carried out. I’m going to respect that, though we do have
disagreements on a number of issues.<br />
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I publicly stated that Florence should ‘<i>Do the Right Thing</i>”. For different
journalists, the phase might be subjective. But I entirely accept that Florence
believes she is doing the right thing. Again, I might disagree, and much of
this opinion is based on how, particularly recently, information is reaching the public
forum. I’m deeply dissatisfied as to how this has happened over the past six or
more weeks. It has hurt and caused a great deal of distress to the very people
who deserve and need the most support and respect – the families of passengers
and crew of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.<br />
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As journalists, we have to trust people, but above all, we also have to earn
trust. We can trust and still learn that we were mistaken in placing our trust in
someone. We are after all human, too.<br />
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As someone said to me this week, and who is very much publicly involved in the
investigation into MH370 (it was a lengthy exchange, so I will paraphrase):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We are all divided;
everyone seems to be pulling in different directions based on personal
motivations, pet theories, agendas, egos, and filled with entrenched likes and
dislikes of characters and personas. There is enough of a disconnect in the
official investigation without us adding further to it on the sidelines. We
need to all work together no matter our disagreements and differences.<br />
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During my dialogue with Florence this week (and I want to stress it was exclusive
of the following point), a valid concern and reason was raised to me as to why
the Royal Malaysian Police report (RMP) should not be released in full. It has
given me quite some pause for consideration. I was very much vocal in its absolute release in full.<br />
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Again, while I have not had access or seen the RMP document, I do know from my
own sources (those who were given access and have seen partial extracts) that
it contains extensive personal information (very extensive, I might add) on passengers
and crew which formed the basis for the Factual Report (FI) released in 2015 by Malaysian authorities. This RMP report includes social media interactions, text messages,
phone calls, emails, work and financial details, and personal background
checks. Full disclosure might leave families of passengers of MH370 wondering about their loved ones:<br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Will my
daughter wonder why I texted my son goodbye at the airport and not her?<br />
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Does my wife want to know now after two years of not knowing that I had a gambling addiction
she never knew about?<br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I was
waiting to get back home before I told my dad mom’s tests at the hospital
weren’t good?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br />While I present the above possibilities as fictitious, one only has to consider what was going on in the lives of those passengers and crew.<br /><br />In the search for MH370, none of the above may matter to the rest of the world
and get us closer to finding MH370, but they may just matter in a devastating
way to a loved one. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So, the real question here is when a criminal
investigation report is leaked, fully or partially, who exactly are the people
who get to decide what is released, not published, redacted or cherry-picked, to
serve a media hungry frenzy or a prescribed agenda?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We all want any data published that takes us a step
closer to knowing the where, how and why of MH370. But we must also ask who is in
custodianship of that data (official and unofficial), now; not last week, a month ago, or a year ago.<br /><br />Perhaps we should also consider how such secret documents are also released in a way that does not cause more harm than good, and yet gets us no closer to finding the answers to MH370.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>UPDATE: September 8th, 2016</b>.<br />The Malaysian High Court <a href="http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1965128?utm_content=buffer5a3f8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" target="_blank">has today ordered all documents</a> pertaining to the disappearance of MH370 to be provided to 76 family members of the passengers in a civil suit against Malaysian Airlines System Berhad (MAS). The next-of-kin of the passengers sought the release of 37 documents, including communications, correspondence, documents and other materials, notes, memoranda, internal documents and investigators reports in relation to MH370.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The court has filed a date of October 20th for documents to be exchanged.</span></div>
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The search for EgyptAir Flight 804 continues in the Mediterranean Sea. The aircraft left Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Cairo International Airport on 19 May and disappeared off ATC radar within a half hour of its expected landing in Egypt.<br />
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According to Greek military radar data, Flight 804 veered off course shortly after entering the Egyptian airspace. At an altitude of 37,000 feet (11,000 metres), the aircraft made a 90-degree left turn, followed by a 360-degree right turn, and then began to descend sharply. Radar contact was lost at an altitude of about 10,000 ft (3,000 m).<br />
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On 20 May, France's Bureau of Investigations and Analysis (BEA) in France confirmed that Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) messages contained the following data.<br />
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00:26Z 3044 ANTI ICE R WINDOW<br />
00:26Z 561200 R SLIDING WINDOW SENSOR<br />
00:26Z 2600 SMOKE LAVATORY SMOKE<br />
00:27Z 2600 AVIONICS SMOKE<br />
00:28Z 561100 R FIXED WINDOW SENSOR<br />
00:29Z 2200 AUTO FLT FCU 2 FAULT<br />
00:29Z 2700 F/CTL SEC 3 FAULT<br />
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No further ACARS messages were received, and contact with the aircraft was lost four minutes later at 00:33 UTC. The data, confirmed by BEA indicates that smoke may have been detected in the front of the airliner - in the front lavatory and the avionics bay beneath the cockpit. Smoke detectors of the type installed on the aircraft can also be triggered by water vapour in the event of a sudden loss of pressure inside the cabin. The three windows mentioned in the data are cockpit-windows. The flight control unit (FCU) is a cockpit-fitted unit that the pilot uses to enter instructions into the on-board flight computer. The spoiler elevator computer number 3 (SEC 3) is the computer that controls the spoilers and elevator actuators.Two pilots interpreted the data as evidence of a possible bomb.<br />
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Smoke or condensation was detected in one of the aircraft's lavatories and in the avionics bay shortly before it disappeared from radar. No emergency call was received by air traffic control. Experts are investigating the cause of the disaster.<br /><br />By 21 May, SAR vessels began recovering small pieces of debris, including seats, body parts and both interior and exterior components..Mick Rooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15787268101730723300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2721341683738239719.post-68755586760294697762016-03-19T12:29:00.002-07:002016-03-19T12:32:35.557-07:00FlyDubai 737 Crashes in Russia While Attempting Second Landing<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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A FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 passenger jet crashed early Saturday morning while attempting to land at its destination airport in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. All 55 passengers and seven crew members were killed when the aircraft heavily impacted the ground about 250 metres short of the runway and within the airport perimeter. It erupted into a fireball and responding emergency crews took more than an hour to finally bring the fires at the crash site under control.<br />
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Investigators are examining poor weather conditions and pilot error as potential reasons for the accident. Russian media reported that at least one flight had landed and later took off at the airport during the time FlyDubai flight FZ981 was circling. Other media reports suggest some flights during early Saturday morning did divert to other airports due to the heavy gusting wings.<br />
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FlyDubai officials confirmed that flight FZ981 had crashed on landing and the passenger manifest has been released. It listed the nationalities as 44 Russian, eight Ukrainian, two Indian, and one passenger from Uzbekistan.<br />
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Some takeouts from this morning's press conference on the search for MH370. This proved to be quite a detailed press conference delivering some important updates, some further refinement of the probable impact point and new resources to the search.<br />
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We are confident that the engines ceased operation and therefore it started its descent into the sea. We know pretty well precisely where it was when the engines were running. The issue that's in question is how and over what distance it entered the water.</blockquote>
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-- Warren Truss, Deputy PM of Australia<br />
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The search is expected to continue until June 2016</li>
<li>76,000 sq km of the 120,000 search area has been completed</li>
<li>China has ageed to pay the financial shortfall of search funds ($20m Aus)</li>
<li>China will become more involved in the search operation (through collaboration and data sharing)</li>
<li>China will provide a fourth search vessel during the summer months</li>
<li>Of the areas searched, 4% require more detailed rechecks. This should be completed by February 016</li>
<li>The ATSB has revised and just released MH370 - Defining the Search Area {Report)</li>
<li>The ATSB say their probability 'hotspot' is consistent with at least two other independent studies of the search area</li>
<li>More recent refinement analysis has resulted in a marginal widening of the search area along the south point of the 7th arc - not an extension of it further south</li>
<li>There are no plans to extend the search beyond June 2016</li>
<li>The French BEA continue to test the flaperon found on the island of La Reunion last July</li>
<li>The ATSB is NOT tasked by Malaysia with providing how or why MH370 ended in the South Indian Ocean - simply locating the wreckage and the logistics of its recovery</li>
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This proved to be one of the most detailed press conferences on MH370 over the past 21 months. It was in stark contrast to press conferences in the early days of the search in 2014. The conference was spared some of the inane mainstream media questions that marred many early 'PR events' in both Kuala Lumpur and Beijing. As can be witnessed in the video, questions came from several AV journalists and were pointed, detailed, and answered without any flip-flopping.
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Egyptian officials have said that there were no survivors after a Russian airliner, Metrojet Flight KGL9268, crashed in central Sinai killing all 224 passengers and crew on board. The Airbus A-321-200 departed the holiday resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on a scheduled flight to the Russian city of Saint Petersburg. Radar contact was lost with the aircraft 20 minutes after it took off.</div>
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The flight was carrying 214 Russians and three Ukrainians. Seven of them were crew members. Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that Sunday will be a day of mourning and has ordered a criminal investigation into the crash against Kogalymavia, owners of Metrojet. This is normal protocol for air crashes involving Russian airlines. The Russian Association of Tour Operators has released a <a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.atorus.ru/news/press-centre/new/33181.html">passenger manifest</a> in the last few hours.<br />
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Rescue teams have reached the crash site, which is difficult desert terrain in the central region of Sinai, Egypt. The rescue teams have reported that the Airbus A321 split into two parts, with one part burning up and the other impacting on mountainous rock, Flight KGL9268 was flying at an altitude of 30,700 feet when it disappeared off ATC radar. Initial reports say that the pilot reported technical difficulties and requested a return to Sharm el-Sheikh Airport, though an emergency mayday was not declared.<br />
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Oksana Golovin, a spokeswoman for Kogalymavia, said the airline had no reason to suspect human error and that the aircraft was fully serviced. At a press conference, she said that the Captain had 3,800<complete id="goog_1696006856">+</complete> hours of flying experience.<br />
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According to the Egyptian state cabinet in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MFAEgyptEnglish/posts/1504537373207180">released statement</a>, the aircraft took off at 05:58<strong> </strong>Egyptian time (03:58 GMT) from Sharm el-Sheikh and at 06:14 the aircraft failed to make scheduled contact with ATC in Cyprus. At 06:17 the aircraft crashed on the Sinai peninsula. The flight was due to arrive at Saint Petersburg's Pulkovo airport at 11.12 (Egyptian time).<br />
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The terrain at the crash site is difficult, though rescue teams are reported to have recovered up to 100 bodies, with many still strapped to their seats.<br />
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Kogalymavia airlines rebranded as Metrojet in 2012, was originally founded in 1993 and the airline has a fleet of seven A321s and two A320s. Flight KGL9268 was serviced by one of the A321s, built in 1997 and registered as EI-ETJ.<br />
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Live flight tracking service FlightRadar24 recorded the aircraft at FL310 and losing 1,500 metres (about 4,500ft) in less than one minute before radar coverage was lost. Weather conditions were reported to be good at the time. The Sinai region is considered an <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25882504">active militant region</a> and shortly after the aircraft crashed NOTAMs were issued to airlines flying over the region. Militants in the area are believed to be equipped with manpad surface-to-air weaponry but there is no evidence that the aircraft was targeted despite claims by the Islamic State (IS) that it was responsible for the downing of Flight KGL9268 late today. The shoulder-launched manpad does not have the capability to reach an aircraft at FL310.<br />
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Investigators are examining the possibility of catastrophic structural failure and rescue teams are still searching for the voice and date recorders at the crash site. The most <a href="http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20011116-0">outstanding issue</a> with this aircraft occurred in 2001 when it suffered a tailstrike while landing at Cairo Airport. <br />
<br />Mick Rooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15787268101730723300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2721341683738239719.post-9776157003409882782015-10-13T11:24:00.002-07:002015-10-13T11:39:19.263-07:00Dutch Safety Board Release Final Report and Conclude MH17 Brought Down by BUK Missile System<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Dutch Safety board has today released its final report on the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. The DSB held a presentation for the media about its findings at the Gilze-Rijen military base in the Netherlands.<br />
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The crash of flight MH17 on 17 July 2014 was caused by the detonation of a 9N314M-type warhead launched from the eastern part of Ukraine using a Buk missile system. So says the investigation report published by the Dutch Safety Board today. Moreover, it is clear that Ukraine already had sufficient reason to close the airspace over the eastern part of Ukraine as a precaution before 17 July 2014. None of the parties involved recognised the risk posed to overflying civil aircraft by the armed conflict in the eastern part of Ukraine.</blockquote>
Below is a video segment from the live presentation.<br />
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Below is a short video created by the DSB describing the events of MH17.<br />
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<a href="http://cdn.onderzoeksraad.nl/documents/report-mh17-crash-en.pdf" target="_blank">Final Report (279pp PDF)</a><br />
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Additional Appendices can be downloaded on this <a href="http://mh17.onderzoeksraad.nl/#" target="_blank">DSB webpage</a>.Mick Rooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15787268101730723300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2721341683738239719.post-80015912227501836232015-09-03T12:58:00.000-07:002015-09-03T12:58:57.486-07:00French Prosecutor Confirms With Certainty Renunion Flaperon is Part of MH370<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The office of Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins today released a statement confirming that the aircraft flaperon found on the coast of La Reunion on July 29th by a team of beach cleaners does 'with certainty' belong to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, a Boeing 777-200ER carrying 239 passengers and crew.<br />
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Investigators have been examining the aircraft flaperon since August 5th in Toulouse, France as part of a separate criminal investigation by the French Prosecutor on behalf the families of four French passengers.<br />
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Investigators informed Francois Molins that by using an endoscope inside the aircraft part, they had discovered three numbers, one of which can be 'associated with the serial number of the flaperon of the Boeing 777 of flight MH 370.'<br />
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Dans le cadre de l’information judiciaire relative à la disparition du vol MH 370 de la Malaysia Airlines le 8 mars 2014, les opérations d’expertises initiées le 5 août 2015, suite à la découverte du flaperon à La Réunion le 29 juillet 2015, ont permis de relever -au moyen d’un endoscope- trois numéros à l’intérieur du flaperon.<br />
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Il est apparu que ces trois numéros pouvaient correspondre à la référence de la fabrication de pièces confiée en sous-traitance par la société Boeing à la société Airbus Defense and Space (ADS-SAU), sise à Séville (ESPAGNE).<br />
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Ce jour, sur commission rogatoire internationale auprès des autorités judiciaires espagnoles, le magistrat instructeur -assisté de l’expert en aéronautique missionné-, s’estrendu à Séville aux fins de recueillir toutes données utiles.<br />
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La communication immédiate des données relatives aux commandes et fabrication des pièces de l’aéronef, explicitée par l’audition d’un technicien de la société ADS-SAU, permet d’associer formellement l’un des trois numéros relevés à l’intérieur du flaperon au numéro de série du flaperon du boeing 777 du vol MH 370.<br />
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As part of the judicial investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 on March 8, 2014, the expert assessment that began on August 5, 2015, following the discovery of the flaperon in Reunion July 29, 2015, has allowed the identifcation–by means of an endoscope–of three numbers inside the flaperon.<br />
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It appeared that these three numbers could correspond to reference parts manufactured by a subcontractor to Boeing, Airbus Defence and Space (ADS-SAU), located in Seville (Spain).<br />
Today, on an international letter rogatory to the Spanish judicial authorities, the French prosecutor – assisted by the expert of the aeronautical mission – traveled to Seville in order to collect all necessary data.<br />
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Immediate communication of data on orders and manufacture of the parts of the aircraft, clarified by an ADS-SAU technician at a hearing, formally allows one of the three numbers found within the flaperon to be associated with the serial number of the flaperon of the Boeing 777 of flight MH 370.<br />
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Thus, it is now possible to state with certainty that the flaperon discovered on Reunion Island on July 29, 2015, corresponds to that of flight MH 370.<br />
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Search and rescue efforts to reach the crash site of Trigana Air Service Flight TGN267 which crashed Sunday afternoon in the remote mountainous region of Okbape in the Indonesian province of Papua are being thwarted by poor weather conditions.<br />
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The search by Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) was launched on Sunday when air traffic control lost contact with the ATR 42-300 carrying 54 passengers and crew on a domestic flight from Sentani to Oksibil. Contact was lost 33 minutes into its scheduled 45-minute flight and locals in the village of Okbape reported to police that they saw the aircraft crash into the Tangok Mountain.<br />
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Early Monday wreckage was spotted in dense jungle 12 kilometres from Oksibil by a search plane. Ground search and rescue personnel are still attempting to reach the crash site but are being hampered by poor weather conditions and difficult terrain.<br />
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Officials in Indonesia say the pilots did not send any distress signal, however weather conditions in the area were poor at the time. Pilots flying the Sentani to Oksibil route rely on visual flight rules to approach the airport.<br />
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The ATR 42-300 twin turboprop was manufactured in 1988 and originally operated in the USA before being transferred to Trigana Air Service in 2005. Trigana has a poor safety record with 14 serious accidents since 1991, 10 of which resulted in hull loss.<br />
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<br />Mick Rooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15787268101730723300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2721341683738239719.post-79903618309307865962015-07-01T12:47:00.003-07:002015-07-01T13:50:38.731-07:00Dutch Safety Board Has Delivered Draft Final Report on MH17 to Representative States<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Dutch Safety Board (DSB) has reported on the progress of the investigation into the crash of MH17 today. The DSB revealed that last month it delivered a Draft Final Report to 'the accredited representatives of the participating States.'<br />
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In a statement released today, the DSB said it has (in accordance with ICAO Annex 13) given each participating State sixty days to submit comments on the report. The DSB will review these comments before delivering its Final Report and recommendations in the first half of October 2015.<br />
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<strong>Progress of the MH17 Investigation</strong><br />
The Dutch Safety Board is investigating the crash of flight MH17, which happened on Thursday, 17 July 2014, in the Donetsk area (Ukraine). The Board is making every effort to give as clear a picture as possible of the cause of the crash. With 17 July 2015 coming up soon, a year after the crash, the Dutch Safety Board is reporting on the progress of the investigation in accordance with Article 6.6 of Annex 13 to the convention on International Civil Aviation.<br />
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The investigation is being carried out on the basis of the standards and recommended practices as described in the aforementioned ICAO Annex 13. The State in which the incident occurred (Ukraine) has delegated the investigation to the Dutch Safety Board. The Dutch Safety Board is therefore in charge of the investigation and directs the international team of investigators. The investigation team is composed of specialists from Malaysia, Ukraine, the United States, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, Australia and the Netherlands.<br />
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In addition to the international investigation into the cause of the crash, the Dutch Safety Board is also investigating the decision-making process pertaining to safety when determining flight routes, as well as the availability of passenger information.<br />
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The Dutch Safety Board published a preliminary report containing its first findings regarding the crash of flight MH17 on Tuesday, 9 September 2014. The preliminary report contains the initial data from the investigation into the cause of the crash based on the sources that were available to the Dutch Safety Board.<br />
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The draft final reports on the investigation into the crash and the investigation pertaining to flight routes were made available to the accredited representatives of the participating States on Tuesday, 2 June. In accordance with ICAO Annex 13, they have sixty days to submit comments on the reports. The Dutch Safety Board will then assess the submitted comments and draw up the definitive final reports. The consultation period the investigation into the availability of passenger information has ended. The Board expects to publish the final reports in the first half of October 2015.Mick Rooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15787268101730723300noreply@blogger.com0