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    Missing Malaysian Airliner

    In this edition of the show Hamid Reza Emadi interviews Captain Alireza Mortezazadeh, Head of Operations, Aseman Airlines.






    Full interview can be found in link below
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    MH370: How long will the search continue?
    Monday, June 16, 2014 - 1:45pm
    By Sophie Brown


    (CNN) -- When authorities confirmed last month that four "pings" heard in the southern Indian Ocean had nothing to do with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, it was a devastating blow for those involved in the investigation, the families of those on board the missing jet, and the countless number of people around the world who had become captivated by the mystery surrounding the plane's disappearance.

    What was described as "the most promising lead" in the search had proved fruitless.

    The investigation into the ill-fated flight is already the most expensive in aviation history. Malaysia has spent $8.6 million so far, Australia is expecting to spend around $84 million, and other countries involved in the search have reportedly set aside sizable sums. Meanwhile, families of the missing passengers are working to raise $5 million to encourage anyone with information about the plane's whereabouts to come forward.

    Sunday marked 100 days since the Boeing 777 disappeared. To the frustration and disappointment of many, no tangible evidence has been found. How long will authorities keep working to solve this expensive mystery and what are their reasons for doing so? CNN speaks to aviation experts for their views.

    Aviation safety and security

    Mary Schiavo, a former inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation, says there's a tremendous need to find the plane, particularly if mechanical failure, and not foul play, is to blame. "The longer time that goes on, the more it appears it was not terrorism, hijacking, sabotage, (or) suicide, and it does appear that something else happened -- something mechanical, some kind of a catastrophic failure, an explosion, something that debilitated the persons on board; and they really need to solve that mystery because until we solve it we can't improve air safety," Schiavo says.

    Some improvements have already begun. Malaysia Airlines has changed its cockpit regulations. International aviation bodies such as the International Air Transport Association (IATA) have called on the aviation industry to change aircraft tracking systems.

    But convincing the industry to implement safety measures before an accident happens remains a challenge, Schiavo adds. "In the United States and in many other countries, we legislate by counting bodies. We don't make something the law until someone has died, and that's just awful and unacceptable but that's the way our regulations work," she says.

    Maintaining the political will to implement the changes is part of the problem, said David Soucie, a former safety inspector at the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and author of "Why Planes Crash." Findings can come years after an accident by which time the sense of urgency has subsided. "Knowing what happened and knowing what could be done to improve a crash investigation, while that's extremely important, often civil aviation authorities make a particular recommendation and it falls on deaf ears because our memories are so short," says Soucie.

    In the case of Air France Flight 447, which crashed en route to Paris in June 2009 with 228 people on board, the plane's black boxes weren't recovered until May 2011. French authorities made a series of recommendations, including that the flight recorders' pinger duration should be increased from 30 days to 90 days, but by that time the motivation to do something had dwindled, Soucie says. Since then, some carriers have implemented those adjustments voluntarily but they haven't become mandatory across the industry. Still, the accident did prompt changes in pilot training and Airbus tweaked a key cockpit sensor. "I'm worried about that with this accident as well -- that the longer we take to find it, the less passionate people are about doing something about what it is that we find," Soucie says.

    David Gallo, an oceanographer and Director of Special Projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, was involved in the search for Air France Flight 447. He says it's critical to find the wreck soon to prevent a similar accident occurring again, and that the amount of money being set aside for the search is trivial in this context. "If it happened at one time it can happen again," says Gallo. "We can (find out what happened) and I'm confident that we will," he adds.

    But it requires certain things: "It takes the right technology because it's at the bottom of the ocean which is deep and vast. It takes the right team because at the depths where the plane may be -- at some of the greatest depths of the sea -- the club is very small of people that know how to go to those depths and work. Most importantly, it takes the right operational plan. And then on top of that, it takes a bit of luck and a lot of prayer," he says.

    Who's responsible?

    Under an international pact between aviation nations, there's a pecking order of who takes charge of a crash investigation. At the top in this case is Malaysia, but Malaysia is allowed, and in fact encouraged, to bring in other countries or hand off the task to other countries that can do the job. In early April, Australia accepted an invitation from Malaysia to lead the search for the missing aircraft and participate in the investigation as an accredited representative. "I think it was very sensible that (Malaysia) did that. I really think that Australia is doing all that they can... and it's a very big and expensive task," says Schiavo.

    But there's a precedent for that kind of expenditure, she adds. The two-year search for Air France Flight 447 cost around $40 million, according to French authorities, while the investigation into the Trans World Airline 800 crash into the Atlantic in 1996 cost in excess of $50 million.

    Although Malaysia has delegated the responsibility for the search to Australia, it is still responsible for the accident investigation. That's something that concerns Soucie. "Once the aircraft is found -- if it is -- at that point the Australians will be pretty much done with their part and the Malaysians will conduct the investigation, which concerns me a great deal because there are going to be a lot of unknowns, even when we have the aircraft in hand. What we're really trying to do is get to the bottom of what happened, and that doesn't come from the search; that comes from the investigation following the search," Soucie says.

    Closure for families

    More than three months since they last saw their loved ones, the families of those on board MH370 still live in a state of limbo. "For us this is frustrating, and befuddling, and at the end of the day I go to sleep disappointed, but for the families it's a nightmare that never ends," says David Gallo. "It's not something that they can just turn off for a while. I speak to several of them on a fairly routine basis and it's just absolutely horrible what they're going through."

    Beyond the emotional closure that would come from finding out what happened to the flight, there's the question of compensation. "When this plane fell out of the sky, it fell into the murky world of airline liability insurance litigation," says Schiavo. Officially, no one involved in the crash has been declared dead. Malaysia Airlines has begun to give families an initial compensation payment of $50,000 with the final amount to be determined "when the issue of the tragedy" is over, Malaysian authorities said last week.

    But Schiavo says this is a fraction of the $176,000 carriers are liable to pay under an international aviation treaty, even before any evidence is found. Under the Montreal Convention, carriers are automatically liable to their passengers unless the airline can prove somebody else is responsible -- which Schiavo believes won't be possible in this case, so they're going to have to pay. "The fact that they're telling people they're going to give them $50,000 is really an outrage because the treaty itself sets forth the initial automatic amount they are responsible for, without any evidence whatsoever," Schiavo says. The aviation lawyer calls the airline's payment outrageous but "they're not alone....carriers always wait to be sued," she says.
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    Lack of trust?

    As new leads have emerged and been discredited, the public's faith in authorities has waned, says Soucie. "I think that trust in the investigation has faltered, but I hope that people would understand that when there's little or no information at all, there's not a whole lot (authorities) can do," he said.

    All clues, no matter how trivial must be examined. For instance, one of the latest leads is an underwater sound that could possibly be related to the final moments of the missing plane. A scientist assisting the investigation into the noise admits it's a long shot: "We consider it's extremely unlikely," says Curtin University's Alec Duncan, but "the chance of (the sound) being related to MH370 is not zero."

    Sarah Bajc, whose husband Paul was on the flight, says that she and other families are "beyond frustrated," at this point. "We're just totally fed up," Bajc said in a recent interview with CNN's Ashleigh Banfield. "The authorities have completely failed the families in this case. They've failed the flying public. The authorities have allowed a jumbo jet to just disappear and to stay missing, and that's just not acceptable."

    Angus Houston, who heads the Australian search efforts understands their frustration. "I think the families are in a very difficult position at the moment. They've got no closure. They want to find the aircraft and they will do whatever it takes to find the aircraft... If I were in their shoes, I'd probably feel exactly the same way," Houston told CNN's Andrew Stevens.

    When investigation ends, quest for answers will continue

    The search is taking place in very deep and vast waters, but David Gallo believes it may not be so long before the plane is found, and experts mostly agree that attention is focused on the right area.

    But if the wreck isn't located, funds will be exhausted at some point and authorities will have to end their investigation. They will be required by the International Civil Aviation Organization to make their work public, even if there is no cause or concrete findings, says Schiavo.

    "At that point I suspect that various groups and organizations and the families themselves will then take that information and try to keep searching. It will remain to be seen whether (the authorities) will be truly open and make all of (their data) public," she says.

    As officials prepare for the next stage of the search, David Gallo stresses the need to find the aircraft as soon as possible to obtain any evidence before it's worn away by the action of the sea.

    "We have to understand what happened for the sake of the families of those passengers, for the sake of the flying public, for the tens of thousands of people that fly every day, and for the sake of the aircraft industry," he says.

    "We need to find that plane, because the plane itself may be a mobile crime scene. The only witnesses to what happened that night are those black boxes that are inside the plane."

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    Malaysia jet passengers likely suffocated, Australia says
    Reuters By By Lincoln Feast 12 hours ago

    The passengers and crew of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 most likely died from suffocation and coasted lifelessly into the ocean on autopilot, a new report released by Australian officials on Thursday said.

    In a 55-page report, the Australian Transport Safety Board outlined how investigators had arrived at this conclusion after comparing the conditions on the flight with previous disasters, although it contained no new evidence from within the jetliner.

    The report narrowed down the possible final resting place from thousands of possible routes, while noting the absence of communications and the steady flight path and a number of other key abnormalities in the course of the ill-fated flight.

    "Given these observations, the final stages of the unresponsive crew/hypoxia event type appeared to best fit the available evidence for the final period of MH370's flight when it was heading in a generally southerly direction," the ATSB report said.

    All of that suggested that the plane most likely crashed farther south into the Indian Ocean than previously thought, Australian officials also said, leading them to announce a shift farther south within the prior search area.

    The new analysis comes more than 100 days after the Boeing 777, carrying 239 passengers and crew, disappeared on March 8 shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing.

    Investigators say what little evidence they have to work with suggests the plane was deliberately diverted thousands of kilometers from its scheduled route before eventually plunging into the Indian Ocean.

    The search was narrowed in April after a series of acoustic pings thought to be from the plane's black box recorders were heard along a final arc where analysis of satellite data put its last location.

    But a month later, officials conceded the wreckage was not in that concentrated area, some 1,600 km (1,000 miles) off the northwest coast of Australia, and the search area would have to be expanded.

    "The new priority area is still focused on the seventh arc, where the aircraft last communicated with satellite. We are now shifting our attention to an area further south along the arc," Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss told reporters in Canberra.

    Truss said the area was determined after a review of satellite data, early radar information and aircraft performance limits after the plane diverted across the Malaysian peninsula and headed south into one of the remotest areas of the planet.

    AUTOPILOT SUSPICIONS AROUND MISSING FLIGHT 370

    "It is highly, highly likely that the aircraft was on autopilot otherwise it could not have followed the orderly path that has been identified through the satellite sightings," Truss said.

    The next phase of the search is expected to start in August and take a year, covering some 60,000 sq km at a cost of A$60 million ($56 million) or more. The search is already the most expensive in aviation history.

    The new priority search area is around 2,000 km west of Perth, a stretch of isolated ocean frequently lashed by storm force winds and massive swells.

    Two vessels, one Chinese and one from Dutch engineering company Fugro , are currently mapping the sea floor along the arc, where depths exceed 5,000 meters in parts.

    A tender to find a commercial operator to conduct the sea floor search closes on Monday.

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    Malaysia Airlines Plane Search Area Shifts Due To New Information

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    Search launched for missing AirAsia jet bound for Singapore from Indonesia
    Indonesia air traffic control lost contact with Air Asia flight QZ8501 bound for Singapore from the Indonesian city of Surabaya on Sunday morning.

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    Malaysia Flight 370: Search For Missing Plane Found Unexpected Wreck



    The Malaysia Flight 370 search has finally found something, but unfortunately it is not the missing plane. Instead, the search team managed to dip up an uncharted shipwreck that is over 100-years-old.


    In a related report by the Inquisitr, it is claimed that “all pilots believe” there is no mystery to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. But some researchers say the Flight 370 search should be checking out evidence at certain airports.

    The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is heading up the Flight 370 search, says the unexpected find came when sonar equipment on board a search vessel scouring the Indian Ocean detected objects nearly 2.5 miles below the surface. Although officials knew it was probably not the missing plane, they sent down an unmanned sub to take a look.

    “It’s a fascinating find, but it’s not what we’re looking for,” Peter Foley, the ATSB’s Director of the Operational Search for Flight 370, said in a statement. “We’re not pausing in the search for MH370, in fact the vessels have already moved on to continue the mission.”

    Michael McCarthy, a senior maritime archaeologist at the West Australian Maritime Museum, says the Flight 370 search managed to find a shipwreck of a cargo ship built in the second half of the 19th century.

    “We’ve got quite a lot of stories about ships that sank in the Indian Ocean mid-voyage and you would be struggling to tell which is which unless you had a complete catalogue of all the ones lost,” he said, according to the Associated Press. “Being a fairly common type of cargo ship from the 19th century with no obvious cargo remains there, I doubt that anyone would pay the enormous cost of going down to look at it.”

    Marine archaeologists are examining the photos taken by the Flight 370 search team, and they believe they have spotted the anchor in addition to what appears to be lumps of coal.



    The Malaysia Flight 370 search will continue its mission, and they have already covered 75 percent of the original search zone. If they still have not found Malaysia Flight MH370 by the end of May, they plan on expanding the search area to include 23,000 more square miles.

    Unfortunately, the Flight 370 search is being hampered by poor weather. Winter is closing in on the Southern Hemisphere, and one of the four remaining search vessels was required to withdraw since the worsening weather made it too difficult to launch their autonomous subs.

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    Ocean search for wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 finds 2nd shipwreck
    Published January 13, 2016


    In this Jan. 2, 2016, sonar image released by Australian Transport Safety Bureau on Wednesday Jan. 13, 2016, a shipwreck is seen on the ocean floor off the coast of Australia.
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    CANBERRA, Australia – The undersea search for the Malaysian airliner that vanished almost two years ago has found a likely 19th century shipwreck deep in the Indian Ocean off the west Australian coast, officials said Wednesday.

    A sonar search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 found what appeared to be a man-made object on Dec. 19, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said in a statement.

    A follow-up investigation using an underwater drone captured high-resolution sonar images on Jan. 2 that confirmed that the find was a shipwreck, said the bureau, which is running the search for the Boeing 777 which vanished on March 8, 2014.

    The Shipwreck Galleries of the Western Australian Museum conducted a preliminary review of the images and advised that the wreck was likely to be a steel or iron ship dating from the turn of the 19th century, the bureau said.

    The bureau on Thursday corrected the potential age of the wreck to the middle of the 19th century or later.

    "It looks like a large iron or steel sailing ship sitting upright and very intact dating from mid-to-late 19th, possibly early 20th century," museum maritime archaeologist Ross Anderson told the bureau in a statement.

    "It appears it is collapsing in classic iron ship fashion with the bow and stern triangles upright and intact and side plating collapsing out to starboard," Anderson added.

    Anderson said he was not able identify the name of the ship based on the image or say whether it had three or four masts, which would narrow the possibilities. He estimated it was 260 feet long.

    "It is all but impossible to identify ships or their country of manufacture/port of origin without being able to do more detailed artefact studies, as so many have been lost over the years," Anderson said.

    "Often the best clue is something like crockery that may have visible the name of the shipping line or similar," he added.

    The wreck was found under water 12,100 feet deep, 1,600 miles southwest of the Australian port of Fremantle where the three search vessels are based, the bureau said.

    The sea hunt similarly found what appeared to be a man-made object in March last year 12,800 feet deep. But it wasn't until May that a closer look confirmed that it was not plane wreckage but the wreck of a cargo ship built in the mid-to-late 19th century. Hundreds of such ships were lost during voyages across the Indian Ocean. Neither ship is likely to be identified because of the cost of mounting closer examinations.

    Flight 370 is thought to have crashed in the Indian Ocean with 239 passengers and crew aboard more than 1,100 miles southwest of Australia after mysteriously flying off course during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

    Searchers have been combing a 46,000-square-mile part of the Indian Ocean since late 2014. A wing flap found in July on the other side of the Indian Ocean when it washed up on Reunion Island is the only debris recovered.

    More than 30,000 square miles of the seafloor have been scoured so far, and the search is scheduled to be wound up by the middle of the year if nothing else of Flight 370 is found.

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    Doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 pilot ran simulations ending with Indian Ocean plunge, suggesting crash horror was intentional
    Rich Schapiro - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, July 22, 2016, 3:51 PM

    Less than a month before Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished, its pilot conducted a simulated flight that mirrored the path taken by the doomed airliner, according to confidential police documents revealed Friday.

    The police files, obtained by New York magazine, provided the strongest evidence yet that Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah downed the plane in a premeditated act of mass murder-suicide.

    The sinister details were inexplicably withheld from Malaysia’s 584-page public report on the investigation.

    The unreleased police documents show that Malaysia turned over to the FBI hard drives that contained recordings of Zaharie’s sessions on his in-home flight simulator, according to the documents.


    Debris in South Africa may belong to missing Malaysia plane


    The FBI was able to recover six deleted data points — plotting a path deep into the Indian Ocean — that had been stored by the flight simulator in the weeks before MH370 disappeared, the documents show.

    “Based on the Forensics Analysis conducted on the 5 (hard disk drives) obtained from the Flight Simulator from MH370 Pilot’s house, we found a flight path, that lead to the Southern Indian Ocean, among the numerous other flight paths charted on the Flight Simulator, that could be of interest,” the document reads, according to New York magazine.

    The flight path on Zaharie’s simulator wasn’t identical to that taken by MH Flight 370. The simulated end point is roughly 900 miles from the remote stretch of the southern Indian Ocean where investigators believe the plane went down.

    But it does chart a course that bears an uncanny similarity to that taken by the doomed flight: leaving Kuala Lumpur, heading northwest over the Malacca Strait, then turning left and crusing south over the Indian Ocean until running out of fuel.

    The passenger plane, carrying 239 people from Beijing to Kuala Lumpur, disappeared from radar on March 8, 2014.

    This week, two pieces of debris were discovered off the coast of Mozambique and are "most likely" from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australian and Malaysian officials said on March 24, 2016. After investigating, both parts were found to be consistent with the Boeing 777 aircraft and hope to provide more clues as to where the plane went down.

    The March 2015 report released by the Malaysian government said investigators found no evidence that Zaharie, 52, or his co-pilot were responsible for the plane’s disappearance.

    “The captain's ability to handle stress at work and home was good,” the report said. “There was no known history of apathy, anxiety or irritability. There were no significant changes in his lifestyle, interpersonal conflict, or family stresses.”

    Officials announced Friday that if no fresh leads emerge, the search for the missing plane will be suspended by the end of the year.

    The cost of the search operation has exceeded $130 million, making it the most expensive in aviation history.

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