Malaysia Isn't Serious About Finding MH370

Geoffrey Thomas

By Geoffrey Thomas Mon Sep 23, 2024

Sources in Malaysia tell AirlineRatings.com that the government’s cabinet is split over a proposal to find MH370 on “a no find no fee basis.”

The cost - if MH370 is found - would be a paltry US$70 million but there are many in the cabinet who say the country can’t afford it, or the money would be beter spent elsewhere or they just don’t want to find the missing Boeing 777-200ER with 239 souls aboard.

UK based serach company Ocean Infinity proposed a new search based largely on the work of Richard Godfrey the UK aerospace engineer based on the breakthrough WSPRnet work.

Godfrey's groundbreaking work has been peer-reviewed and refined and the location of MH370 has been identified within a 30km radius about 1560km west of Perth Western Australia.

The location is just outside the previous search area and is consistent with the Inmarsat Satellite data and the debris drift analysis of the University of Western Australia.

At stake of course is that finding the resting place of the Boeing 777 could also open the Malaysian Government to compensation claims as it is almost certain that the perpetrator of this tragedy is Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah.

Malaysia has a responsibility to international aviation to find MH370 and if it does not, the International Civil Aviation Organisation, the UN governing body of aviation should sanction the airline and mount its own search.

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