18 April 2014| last updated at 01:13PM
MH370 Tragedy: Authorities hope to deploy more AUVs: Hishammuddin
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian authorities are now considering the possibility of deploying more underwater assets in the search for a missing Malaysian jetliner, said acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein.
He said in a Twitter post that the Deployment of Assets Committee, led by Deputy Defence Minister Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakri, was looking into deploying more autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in the southern Indian Ocean as the search for the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH370entered its 42nd day today.
He also said that the experience shared by Jean Paul Troadec, a special advisor to France's aviation accident investigation bureau who was involved in investigating the 2009 Air France Flight 447 accident, had been helpful for the search operation.
Last Monday, an AUV called the Bluefin-21 was deployed from the Australian Defence Vessel, Ocean Shield, in a 40 square km area to search for MH370underwater as no confirmed signals were picked up by the tow pinger locator since April 8.
The Bluefin-21 is a probe vehicle equipped with side-scan sonar, which uses acoustic sounds to create a 3D map of the sea floor in the hope of locating any debris.
However, the AUV found no trace of MH370after four underwater missions in the southern Indian Ocean since Monday.
Hishammuddin said he would meet up with the three ministerial committees this weekend to re-intensify their efforts.
"Datuk Hamzah's committee relating to families will be going to Beijing, then Perth, next week. Angus Houston (the Joint Agency Coordination Centre chief coordinator) is looking forward to meeting them," he tweeted.
Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin heads the Next-of-Kin Committee while Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi chairs the Technical Committee.
The government had announced the establishment of the three committees on April 5 to streamline and strengthen the ongoing efforts in the search for MH370.
Hishammuddin said the Technical Committee was looking at the setting up and appointment of an International Expert Panel of Inquiry.
Read more: MH370 Tragedy: Search to be most costly ever at US$100mil: analysts - Latest - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/latest/font-color-red-mh370-tragedy-font-search-to-be-most-costly-ever-at-us-100mil-analysts-1.571863#ixzz2zGGsQTby
He also said that the experience shared by Jean Paul Troadec, a special advisor to France's aviation accident investigation bureau who was involved in investigating the 2009 Air France Flight 447 accident, had been helpful for the search operation.
Last Monday, an AUV called the Bluefin-21 was deployed from the Australian Defence Vessel, Ocean Shield, in a 40 square km area to search for MH370underwater as no confirmed signals were picked up by the tow pinger locator since April 8.
The Bluefin-21 is a probe vehicle equipped with side-scan sonar, which uses acoustic sounds to create a 3D map of the sea floor in the hope of locating any debris.
However, the AUV found no trace of MH370after four underwater missions in the southern Indian Ocean since Monday.
Hishammuddin said he would meet up with the three ministerial committees this weekend to re-intensify their efforts.
"Datuk Hamzah's committee relating to families will be going to Beijing, then Perth, next week. Angus Houston (the Joint Agency Coordination Centre chief coordinator) is looking forward to meeting them," he tweeted.
Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin heads the Next-of-Kin Committee while Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi chairs the Technical Committee.
The government had announced the establishment of the three committees on April 5 to streamline and strengthen the ongoing efforts in the search for MH370.
Hishammuddin said the Technical Committee was looking at the setting up and appointment of an International Expert Panel of Inquiry.
18 April 2014| last updated at 02:22PM
MH370 Tragedy: Search to be most costly ever at US$100mil: analysts
SYDNEY: The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is set to be the most expensive in aviation history, analysts say, as efforts to find the aircraft deep under the Indian Ocean show no signs of slowing.
The Boeing 777 vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board, after veering dramatically off course en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and is believed to have crashed in the sea off Australia.
Australia, which is leading the search in a remote patch of water described as “unknown to man”, has not put a figure on spending, but Malaysia has warned that costs will be “huge”.
“When we look at salvaging (wreckage) at a depth of 4.5 kilometres (2.8 miles), no military out there has the capacity to do it,” Transport and Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Thursday.
“We have to look at contractors, and the cost of that will be huge.”
Ravikumar Madavaram, an aviation expert at Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific, said Malaysia, Australia and China, which had the most nationals onboard the flight, were the biggest spenders and estimated the total cost up to now at about US$100 million (72 million euros).
“It’s difficult to say how much is the cost of this operation ... but, yes, this is definitely the biggest operation ever (in aviation history).
“In terms of costs this would be the highest,” he told AFP.
Read more: MH370 Tragedy: Search to be most costly ever at US$100mil: analysts - Latest - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/latest/font-color-red-mh370-tragedy-font-search-to-be-most-costly-ever-at-us-100mil-analysts-1.571863#ixzz2zGGsQTby
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