There are reports debris found along the coast between Mozambique and Madagascar could belong to MH370.
A Malaysia Airlines’ Boeing 777 similar to the missing MH370. Picture: Supplied
THE boss of Qatar Airways has made an impassioned plea for the search for MH370 to continue until the aircraft is found.
Noting the discovery of more debris thought to have come from the Boeing 777, His Excellency Akbar Al Baker said that was not enough to satisfly an airline CEO.
“I have insisted that IATA (the International Air Transport Association) should play a more active role in forcing regulators to find this aircraft,” said Mr Al Baker, who sits on the Board of Governors of IATA.
MH370 disappeared almost two years ago en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Picture: AFP/Manan VatsyayanaSource:AFP
“Finding this aeroplane is extremely important for the aviation industry. We cannot afford for planes to simply disappear in the 21st century and just look the other way and forget about it.
“We need to find the cause and what happened to this aeroplane.”
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has repeatedly stated that the search in the Southern Indian Ocean would cease once all 120,000 square kilometres of the priority zone was scoured.
“In the absence of credible new information that leads to the identification of a specific location of the aircraft, (Australian, Malaysian and Chinese) Governments have agreed that there will be no further expansion of the search area,” said the ATSB operational update.
US blogger Blaine Gibson with possible plane debris he found in Mozambique. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied
Mr Al Baker said the discovery of debris confirmed the aircraft did go down in the Southern Indian Ocean but that was all.
“That doesn’t give me as CEO of an airline satisfaction that we have the answer,” Mr Al Baker said.
“We know the aeroplane went down there but we don’t know what happened to it. We need to know what happened to it and how the aeroplane must be tracked.”
He said Qatar Airways’ fleet of more than 150 aircraft were all tracked 24-hours a day.
MH370 - what’s been found where.
“Every aircraft that takes off from any airport is tracked at our operations control centre, and the aircraft and ground system integrate with each other every 15 seconds, and if an aircraft deviated from its charted flight path we would get an alert within five seconds,” said Mr Al Baker.
“All this is implemented by us to make sure we should never get into a situation where we have an aircraft that has disappeared and we don’t know where it is.”
However Mr Al Baker said not “everything” could be guaranteed when operating an aircraft.
“At the end of the day we all have to rely on people who are on the inside of the aircraft,” he said.
Relatives of the Chinese passengers aboard missing flight MH370 believe loved ones could still be alive, perhaps held as prisoners.
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