Malaysia’s new prime minister-elect has announced he is not ruling out further searches for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Anwar Ibrahim, 70, who won the country’s election just weeks after being pardoned by the king and released from jail, said there are too many questions that have not been answered on MH370.
‘Was it a failure of the system? Was it a failure of those monitoring the system or was it an intention to ignore or cover up?’ he told The Australian.
What happened to MH370 is one of the world’s biggest aviation mysteries. The plane disappeared in March 2014 with 239 on-board while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Anwar Ibrahim (pictured), 70, has announced he is not ruling out further searches for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
MH370 is one of the world’s biggest aviation mysteries – after the plane disappeared in March 2014 with 239 on-board while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing
Mr Anwar is skeptical about ‘discrepancies in the cargo, passenger lists and the government’s earlier assertions that the plane flew over the South China Sea
Pilot Mr Zaharie Shah (pictured) was flying the aircraft on March 2014 with 239 on-board while travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing
Mr Ibrahim’s comments come after Malaysia’s transport minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook implied the current search will be the last for the lost Malaysian Airlines plane.
The new government has extended the current search to May 29, Mr Loke told the Australian.
Mr Anwar is skeptical about ‘discrepancies in the cargo, passenger lists and the government’s earlier assertions that the plane flew over the South China Sea instead of the Indian Ocean.
‘What was described by authorities and what was in the cargo was totally different,’ The prime minister-in-waiting said.
Mr Ibrahim also doesn’t promote the controversial theory that the plane was hijacked by pilot Zaharie Shah.
Mr Anwar said there are too many questions that have not been answered on the MH370
‘What was described by authorities and what was in the cargo was totally different,’ The prime minister-in-waiting said
The new government has extended the current search to May 29, Transport minister Mr Loke said
Leading expert Christine Negroni previously rubbished claims that the pilot of the Malaysia Airlines MH370 had been on a suicide mission and deliberately landed the plane in the sea.
Mrs Negroni pointed to crucial evidence that the wreckage of the Boeing 777’s wing flaps – which assist with landing – were retracted at the time of the crash in March 2014.
Her comments came in response to claims made by former Canadian air crash investigator Larry Vance during at interview on Australia’s 60 Minutes.
Mr Vance claimed that the pilot Shah had cruelly attempted to keep the plane in one piece – meaning everybody on board would perish, but he would avoid creating debris that would aid search attempts.
He claimed Shah flew off course on a suicide mission and planned to kill himself and the 238 others on the journey from Beijing to Kuala Lumpur.
Mr Vance said: ‘He was killing himself; unfortunately, he was killing everybody else on board, and he did it deliberately’.
Setting out his argument in his new book MH370: Mystery Solved, Mr Vance suggested Shah wanted to leave as little trace as possible, in a final act of malice.
Yet Ms Negroni has rubbished his conclusions as ‘preposterous’ and ‘absurd’ and used the photos to prove her point.
Mrs Negroni (pictured) rubbished recent claims that pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah tried to land the plane in the Indian ocean softly
The plane was not under full control when it crash landed – rubbishing a bombshell theory set out by former Canadian air crash investigator Larry Vance
In a post on her website following the show, she slammed the 60 minutes for airing theories which she called ‘far-fetched’.
‘By contrast, in The Crash Detectives, I suggest that a rapid decompression of the aircraft rendered the pilots partially hypoxia and therefore incapable of making sensible decisions.
‘One or both of the men on the flight deck then inadvertently flew the aeroplane off course until they succumbed. The plane flew on until it ran out of fuel in the South Indian Ocean.’
Mr Vance claimed Shah had attempted to keep the plane in one piece – meaning everybody on board would perish, but he would avoid creating debris that would aid search attempts
This photograph shows the flaps being retracted (left) and when they are extended (right)