Malaysia`s Civil Aviation Department said, they have submitted the interim report on the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 to the Government Officials. It was confirmed by the authorities that, the report will be made available to public on Sunday.
The flight MH370 was carrying 239 passengers and crew on their way to Beijing. It changed its direction after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur and had disappeared from the radar. The search area is focused on 1,600 kilometers to the west of Australian Coast. Authorities said, till to date $200 million had been spent on the rescue effort but no traces of the airline could be found.
Malaysia’s Transport Minister, Liow Tiong Lai said, he is still optimistic about finding the airline. He also confirmed that, if there is a positive result by May his government along with China and Australia will re-examined all the data they have collected and prepare a new plan. He said, “We have to go back to the drawing boards. We need the experts to advise us how to move forward”. He then added, “We stand guided by the expert team. I am cautiously optimistic it should be in this area. We need directions, we need plans, we need to review all the data that we have”.
The Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss confirmed that the rescue efforts will go on for now. He said, “We have committed significant financial resources to the search and we will have to make a decision also about how much more we will be prepared to devote. And that would depend clearly on the commitments that other countries are prepared to make”. But others are not so sure about how long the most expensive aviation search in history will go on.
It was previously reported that, in January Malaysian Civil Aviation authority declared the passengers deceased and classified the tragedy as an accident. The families were offered $50,000 per victim as a settlement. This declaration also allowed the airline to move forward with legal and financial matters.
But the news also angered the victim’s family, who formed a group called Voice370. In a press release the group said, “Despite this complete lack of wreckage found or physical evidence of a catastrophic event, the Malaysian government has officially declared that the airplane crashed, leaving no survivors, and it has ended the rescue phase of the search effort”. It was also stated, “We do not accept this finding and we will not give up hope until we have definitive proof of what happened to MH370”.