Search for MH370 to end next week
The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is reportedly set to end next week, with Malaysia’s new Transport Minister indicating the private US firm tasked with located the aircraft will be receiving no more extensions.
ABC News reports Houston-based Ocean Infinity has been searching for the aircraft, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, in one of the world’s biggest aviation mysteries.
Malaysia had reportedly agreed to pay the firm up to $93 million if it was able to find the missing aircraft in the 90-day search over the southern Indian Ocean.
Malaysia’s new Transport Minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook, who was sworn in on Monday, said the government would release a full report on the investigation.
"This morning I raised this in cabinet and agreed to extend to May 29," Mr Fook said.
Ganesan Nethi, a lawyer who had represented the families of victims from MH370, commended Mr Loke’s insistence on, "the need to give closure to the families of passengers on board MH370" .
"As a lawyer who acts for 76 relatives of passengers on board MH370, I find this to be a very heartening and refreshing change of approach by the new Government," he said.
"And believe you me, we will be reaching out to the Malaysia Government because we would like to see a resolution to this as well, both in the court of law and outside."
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