MH370 Search in Crucial Phase, Says ICAO General Secretary

15th Jul 2015

Raymond Benjamin, head of the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) said in a recent interview that the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight number MH370 is at a crucial phase. Otherwise, he says, families of 239 people who perished aboard the Boeing 777 and the public may never know what happened to it.

‘A Lot of Confusion in the Search’, Says ICAO General Secretary

The General Secretary of ICAO told The Strait Times confusion is still very much present in the investigation of the MAS plane.

Speaking about this, Benjamin said:

We don’t know what exactly happened in the cockpit so we don’t know if it was a security issue or a safety issue. We have never had a situation where an aircraft flew for seven hours before crashing. Without the aircraft wreckage, we don’t know.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing last year on 8^th March when it vanished from the radar somewhere over the Indian Ocean presumably. Despite the efforts to locate the wreckage, the plane, along with 239 people who were on board, is still to be located.

No Lack of Theories for the Missing Plane

The search for the plane covered over 23,000 miles of the seabed in the Indian Ocean so far, though some investigators suggest it is being conducted in the wrong area. In addition, a team of mathematicians led by Goong Chen said the reason MH370 is still not found is because it went nose-first into the water.

The search for the missing aircraft has been decreased back significantly in the weeks behind us, and is currently done with only one boat scouring the Indian. The other boat was pulled back without much explanation, but it should return to the search later in July.

Malaysia, China and Australia have been leading the search effort both in terms manpower and money.