MH370 Search Update: Expert Highlights Cover Up Of Malaysia And Australia In Withholding Plane’s Recordings
By Athena Yenko| October 26, 2014 1:32 AM EST
The first four hours into the disappearance of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was crucial to the investigation. What transpired during this critical period were surely documented by different audio recording contained in recorders and hard disks that up until now are not being released in public and being withheld from the families of the passengers. Neither Malaysia nor
Australia is releasing such recordings and hard disks; therefore, these two nations could be guilty of a cover up for something that remains convoluted and unknown today, an aviation expert alleged.
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Australia "so protective about." An aviation advisor in South
Sudan, he wants to understand "what needed to be kept secret from the world even when 239 people were lost?"
Ross highlighted the very known and given fact that Malaysian Air Force has the capacity to intercept an unidentified aircraft; that it could instruct its military pilot to track a plane that its radar found to be flying out to the Andaman Sea. But it had chosen and is continuing to withhold the information.
"What is the secret they were guarding? Why is there still no information in the public domain about what happened that night during the first four hours?" Ross asked. He highlighted that answers to these questions are contained somewhere but are being hidden.
He said the pilot/air traffic controller recording contains the answers to his questions. A separate recording of the voice coordination between the air traffic controllers in Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City - done via a voice/ data link and kept for 30 days - has the information. A recorded communications between military air defence officer and the civil air traffic controller in Kuala Lumpur control centre also holds information - assuming that they talked with each other in tracking the "unidentified" plane; if they did not, then they commit criminal negligence. Moreover, all telephone conversations between military centre and the civil ATC centre are recorded.
"Nobody can tell us that the recordings do not exist."
Ross argued. Malaysia and Australia "could be accused of covering up vital information which would help the families and independent investigators to work out what happened," he upheld.
Meanwhile, Transport Ministry Secretary-General Datuk Ruhaizah Mohamed Rashid said that Indonesia has yet to report of any spotted debris from MH370.
Any time that debris turns up in Indonesia, it will be brought to Australia for analysis. Australian authorities will then send its report to Boeing for verification, Rashid told a press briefing conducted by Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) chief coordinator Judith Zielke and Australian Transport Safety Bureau spokesman Peter Forley.
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