The Search for MH370 Still Continues as Authorities Probe Four Passengers With Suspicious Identities
MH370, The Malaysian Airlines flight, missing now for over a day, is proving to be elusive with no wreckage in sight. Although initially it was reported that two passengers boarded with stolen passports, the Malaysian authorities, assisted by FBI, are reportedly probing four passengers with suspicious identities and a possible airport security lapse.
The flight left Kuala Lumpur, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members and was expected to land in Beijing during Saturday morning hours, but never made it. The flight simply disappeared from the radar, and with no distress calls. The good safety record of the Malaysian Airlines and the 777, experience of the pilot, the safe altitude and the fine weather over Malaysian waters at the time the plane vanished, have made the disappearance all the more startling.
What became of the Boeing 777 jet, was fuelled by speculations, aided by the fact that at least two passengers boarded the flight with stolen passports. According to a CNN report, two passengers with the stolen passports allegedly bought their tickets together, indicated by their tickets’ consecutive numbers, from China Southern Airlines. Malaysia launched a terror probe, investigating passengers with suspect identities. The dramatic turn of events also prompted the US to send FBI to assist in the matter, as foul play and a possible terror link wasn’t ruled out.
The missing flight has prompted an unprecedented multi-nation search operation of epic proportions with over 40 ships and 22 aircraft, and countries including Malaysia, Vietnam, China and the US.
The mystery deepened as search teams failed to find any wreckage of the MH370, although oil slicks were reportedly spotted in the sea south of Vietnam by Vietnamese search and rescue helicopters. In a later development, the search was widened after investigators found evidence, based on military radars that the plane may have turned back towards Kuala Lumpur, after something went wrong.
As the search continues in the sea, and the terror probe is carried in land, the close relatives of those on board the missing flight are spending yet another day fraught with drama, agony and a frustrating wait for answers. Although the airlines have told them to expect the worst, the delay in finding any wreckage even 40 hours after the plane went missing, has made the situation edgy.
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Why are we still relying on flight recorders?
Airplanes should be constantly sending their flight data to monitoring servers worldwide which can be accessed by the control towers.
If we can have complete telemetry and control of a rover in mars we should also have telemetry of commercial airplanes and ships on earth. The technology is there, and not prohibitively expensive. What is needed is international coordination. This is a job for the U.N., and it should set out to do it.