MH370 News: The Final Report Into the Disappearance of Flight MH370 Has Sensationally Been Branded a "Cover-Up" By Top Aviation Experts
By Charlotte Ikonen/ News/ World News/ Daily Star/ dailystar.co.uk.cnd.ampproject.org
"The stricken
MH370 jet vanished after veering south across the Indian Ocean in March 2014 while flying between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing.
The Malaysia Airlines plane was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew on the routine flight when it disappeared from the radar.
Despite two large-scale searches of the sea bed, only scattered pieces of debris have been found and the disappearance remains one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time.
A 19-strong team of Malaysian investigators said in July there was
no reason to suspect a mechanical problem, and that nothing in the behaviour of the captain or the first officer suggested any malicious intent.
They concluded: “The team is unable to determine the real cause for the disappearance of MH370.
But Mike Exner and Don Thompson, members of an independent group of experts looking into the flight's disappearance, have accused Malaysia of failing to faithfully pursue the investigation and have detailed what has been left out of the flawed investigation.
They claimed the investigation “was heavily politically influenced and delayed”.
The pair called on Malaysia to make more information public to help independent researchers locate the missing plane.
The group has provided detailed analyses of the search for MH370 for the past four years and includes experts in physics, radar, satellite technology, mobile satellite communications, avionics designers and airline flight simulators.
In an interview with AirlineRatings.com, the experts outlined seven areas where Malaysia either needs to commit to doing more or providing additional information on MH370.
The first is a new analysis of the radar data collected for the missing Boeing 777.
“The Safety Investigation Team has failed to provide any useful analysis of data from the military radar,’’ they said.
“It is important to establish if, when and where descents/climbs did occur and what impact that would have on fuel endurance and other implications.
“Of course, there are the somewhat incredible statements about Indonesian and Royal Thai Air Defence Surveillance radar assets not detecting the Boeing 777 in the northern Straits of Malacca.”
Next, they want a complete “structural analysis of the most significant debris items” that have been found.
The debris catalog includes two parts, a flap, and a flaperon, that originated from adjacent positions on the starboard wing....."
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