MH370: Flap found in Tanzania confirmed belonged to ill-fated MAS’ Boeing 777
Malaysia’s Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai today (Sept 15, 2016) confirmed that a flap found in Tanzania last July belonged to the MAS Boeing 777 that went missing more than two and a half years ago.
This is the first time that the Malaysian government is confirming that a MH370 debris was found. The ill-fated MAS aircraft crashed in March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board after taking off from Kuala Lumpur and heading for Beijing.
No News Is Bad News was spot on as the confirmation comes after we posted a report titled “MH370: End of the road near, Malaysia cannot cover-up the crash anymore” on Sept 5, 2016, i.e 10 days ago (Read this: http://victorlim2016.blogspot.my/2016/09/mh370-end-of-road-near-malaysia-cannot.html) - the story has also been reproduced below for the convenience of our visitors and readers.
This means, it is confirmed that the MAS jet did not go missing mysteriously but had indeed crashed, killing all on board.
This means a closure to the families of the crash victims. Only insurance claims/compensation and the cause of the crash remain to be unearthed.
This is the Free Malaysia Today (FMT) report on the confirmation:
"Liow confirms flap found in Tanzania belongs to MH370
Tarrence Tan
| September 15, 2016
Transport minister says the serial number and date stamp on the debris was confirmed by Boeing and its retailing manufacturer to belong to the ill-fated Boeing 777.
SEPANG: Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai today confirmed that the large piece of plane debris found off the coast in Tanzania in July belongs to flight MH370, which went missing two years ago.
Liow revealed that the serial number and the date stamp on the debris – which was an inboard section of a Boeing 777 outboard flap – was confirmed by both Boeing and the retailing manufacturer as belonging to the Malaysian Airlines’ aircraft.
“This means we have to study how the accident happened. Was it a controlled or uncontrolled plunge into the sea?
“All this will be analysed in detail and we hope we can get more details from this debris,” he told reporters after officiating AirAsia’s Airbus A320NEO welcoming ceremony today.
Present were AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes, British High Commissioner to Malaysia Victoria Marguerite Treadell and Ambassador of France to Malaysia Christophe Penot.
In July, a piece of aircraft debris, believed to the outboard wing flap, was found on Pemba island, Tanzania, in the Indian Ocean.
The part was then transported to Australia and analysed by its Transport and Safety Bureau (ATSB).
In the same month, Australia’s Infrastructure and Transport Minister Darren Chester said that the debris was very likely from the missing MH370.
So far, debris believed to be from MH370 had washed up on Reunion Island, Mozambique, Mauritius and South Africa.
Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board after taking off from Kuala Lumpur and heading for Beijing.
Most of the passengers on board MH370 were from China. There were 50 Malaysians on board the plane."
And this was the No News Is Bad News spot on blog posting on Sept 5, 2016:
Tarrence Tan
| September 15, 2016
Transport minister says the serial number and date stamp on the debris was confirmed by Boeing and its retailing manufacturer to belong to the ill-fated Boeing 777.
SEPANG: Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai today confirmed that the large piece of plane debris found off the coast in Tanzania in July belongs to flight MH370, which went missing two years ago.
Liow revealed that the serial number and the date stamp on the debris – which was an inboard section of a Boeing 777 outboard flap – was confirmed by both Boeing and the retailing manufacturer as belonging to the Malaysian Airlines’ aircraft.
“This means we have to study how the accident happened. Was it a controlled or uncontrolled plunge into the sea?
“All this will be analysed in detail and we hope we can get more details from this debris,” he told reporters after officiating AirAsia’s Airbus A320NEO welcoming ceremony today.
Present were AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes, British High Commissioner to Malaysia Victoria Marguerite Treadell and Ambassador of France to Malaysia Christophe Penot.
In July, a piece of aircraft debris, believed to the outboard wing flap, was found on Pemba island, Tanzania, in the Indian Ocean.
The part was then transported to Australia and analysed by its Transport and Safety Bureau (ATSB).
In the same month, Australia’s Infrastructure and Transport Minister Darren Chester said that the debris was very likely from the missing MH370.
So far, debris believed to be from MH370 had washed up on Reunion Island, Mozambique, Mauritius and South Africa.
Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board after taking off from Kuala Lumpur and heading for Beijing.
Most of the passengers on board MH370 were from China. There were 50 Malaysians on board the plane."
And this was the No News Is Bad News spot on blog posting on Sept 5, 2016:
More than two and a half years after the MH370 MAS jet with 239 people aboard went missing, the authorities and governments are still throwing their own irritating crap agenda globally.
They are just unable to unravel or tell the truth of the mysterious “crash” and Malaysia still maintains no debris from the ill-fated Boeing 777 has been confirmed recovered.
But in recent weeks, more and more claims, especially from the Australian-led Search And Rescue/Recovery (SAR), that fragments or debris from the MAS-registered Boeing 777 had indeed been found.
However, the Malaysian government has been accused by the international SAR of showing no interest on the recovery of evidence.Why? Is it because of insurance claims by the kin of those killed in the crash?
Is it because, if evidence had been found that the jet had been deliberately crashed by the MAS pilot, then MAS and the government would be liable, and the insurance companies will not pay.
To the Malaysian government’s selfish interest, that cannot happen and the pilot’s integrity and health status must not be compromised.
This, despite solid evidence found by the US investigators that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had flown a suicide route on his home simulator closely matching the flight before the jet disappeared from the civil aviation radars of various countries.
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Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah with his family during happier times. |
The document reveals that after the plane disappeared, Malaysia turned over to the FBI hard drives that Zaharie used to record sessions on an elaborate home-built flight simulator.
The FBI was able to recover six deleted data points that had been stored by the Microsoft Flight Simulator X programme in the weeks before MH370 disappeared, according to the document. Each point records the airplane’s altitude, speed, direction of flight, and other key parameters at a given moment.
Soon after the crash, there was media speculation that the world’s three superpowers – the US, Russia and China – have been engaged in a subtle yet tectonic geo-political Cold War manoeuvrings.Did the US, initially, used the ill-fated MH370 findings to squeeze Malaysia over the US vs Russsia-China world order manoeuvrings.
Now that the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB)-Najib Razak multi-billion-ringgit alleged money laundering global scandal is providing an even more “deadly” squeeze, suddenly more are being revealed on MH370 by various authorities in the US and Australia?
Anyway, the world has gone bored with all the governments’ rhetorical propaganda as too much has been written and talked about without any substantial conclusion.
And here’s the latest on the search for MH370 from Australia:
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Comment | Geoffrey Thomas - The West Australian on September 8, 2016, 12:40 am
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History shows we never give up trying to find ships or planes that disappear — particularly high-profile ones.
And there is no more high profile or baffling a disappearance than that of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
Yesterday some of the relatives of passengers aboard MH370 made a heartfelt plea to the governments of Malaysia, China and Australia and other countries to continue the search.
There were Chinese, Malaysians and Australians on the flight but also nationals from Indonesia, India, France, the US, Ukraine, New Zealand, Iran, Canada, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Russia and Taiwan.
American MH370 sleuth Blaine Gibson said yesterday that all countries involved should chip in.
China needs to shoulder far more responsibility as the flight was a code-share with China Southern Airlines, which is why 152 Chinese were aboard.
That airline sold tickets for the flight as if it was its own and took profits. With that financial gain comes responsibility.
The governments of Malaysia, China and Australia say the search will continue if new credible evidence appears.
Well, it has and loads of it.
Mr Gibson and other searchers are finding credible evidence in the form of shattered debris almost every week. So it is deeply disturbing to discover from Mr Gibson that Malaysia has failed to pick up six pieces recovered more than three months ago.
It is little wonder that the relatives are distraught over the actions or inaction of the Malaysians who have bungled this investigation from the start.It is time for the International Civil Aviation Organisation, the airline industry’s governing body, to step in to make Malaysia more accountable or hand this investigation over to either Australia or the US."
And there is no more high profile or baffling a disappearance than that of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
Yesterday some of the relatives of passengers aboard MH370 made a heartfelt plea to the governments of Malaysia, China and Australia and other countries to continue the search.
There were Chinese, Malaysians and Australians on the flight but also nationals from Indonesia, India, France, the US, Ukraine, New Zealand, Iran, Canada, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Russia and Taiwan.
American MH370 sleuth Blaine Gibson said yesterday that all countries involved should chip in.
China needs to shoulder far more responsibility as the flight was a code-share with China Southern Airlines, which is why 152 Chinese were aboard.
That airline sold tickets for the flight as if it was its own and took profits. With that financial gain comes responsibility.
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 The Fugro Equator search vessel has been hunting for MH370. |
Well, it has and loads of it.
Mr Gibson and other searchers are finding credible evidence in the form of shattered debris almost every week. So it is deeply disturbing to discover from Mr Gibson that Malaysia has failed to pick up six pieces recovered more than three months ago.
It is little wonder that the relatives are distraught over the actions or inaction of the Malaysians who have bungled this investigation from the start.It is time for the International Civil Aviation Organisation, the airline industry’s governing body, to step in to make Malaysia more accountable or hand this investigation over to either Australia or the US."
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