KUALA LUMPUR (Xinhua/DNO)New analysis of satellite data suggested that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 had crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Monday.
Najib released the sad news at a hastily-convened press conference in Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia.
The prime minister said the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch and Inmarsat, the UK company that provided the satellite data, have concluded that “the missing jetliner flew along the southern corridor,” and its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth, Australia.
He also said the type of analysis used to investigate the mystery of the jetliner has never been used before.
“This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites,” said Najib, adding that more details will be announced at a press briefing Tuesday morning.
The families of those aboard were also called into a meeting to hear the news.
In a text message sent to the families before Najib announced the news, Malaysia Airlines said “MH370 has been lost and none of those on board survived.”
Screaming and crying were coming from a room in a Beijing hotel where families of the passengers onboard gathered and a significant number of stretchers were rushed to them.
Search for the missing jet continued on Monday in the vast Indian Ocean.
Both Chinese and Australian planes spotted some suspicious objects in the southern Indian Ocean in search for the missing plane, but whether the objects were related to the missing jet had not been confirmed.
The crew aboard a Chinese IL-76 plane saw two relatively big floating objects with many small white ones scattered within a radius of several kilometers.
The searchers then relayed the information to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), asking the Australian side to send other planes to the area of interest for further examination while making their way back to the air base.
However, a U.S. P-8 aircraft was unable to locate the suspicious objects that the Chinese planes have spotted, AMSA said in a tweet.
Later on Monday, an Australian aircraft spotted two objects in the ocean, different from those found by a Chinese plane earlier, and they can be retrieved within hours or around early Tuesday at the latest.
“The crew on board the P-3 Orion reported seeing two objects, the first a grey or green circular object and the second an orange rectangular object,” Prime Minister Tony Abbott told the parliament on Monday.
Abbott said Australia did not know whether any of these objects in the southern Indian Ocean were from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. “They could be flotsam,” he said.
A total of 10 aircraft joined Monday’s search for MH370 whose whereabouts has remained unknown since it vanished on March 8 on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, carrying 239 people.
The search has zeroed in on two areas of 59,000 square km to 68,500 square km respectively.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Pacific Command has ordered the Pacific Fleet to move a black box locator into the region, according to a U.S. Navy statement released on Sunday.
In the statement, the U.S. Navy stressed that the deployment of the locator, namely the Towed Pinger Locator 25 (TPL-25), was only a “precautionary measure in case a debris field is located.”
The French Foreign Ministry also said on Sunday that France will mobilize further satellite means to help find the missing MH370 after its satellite images showed “floating debris” in the southern Indian Ocean.
The announcement reduced some mystery shrouded around the missing plane but the exact location of the plane requires further search.
Hello and good morning my people. Well how can the Minister make such a claim when they haven’t recover any part of the plane to justify his statement. We are dealing with an incompetent third world country who can’t even track their planes with radar. Now I must also say that The American government is incompetent with this because the Jet is made by Boeing which is a top aircraft builder but yet Boeing corporation can’t provide any information about this Jet. America claim that they have spy satellites that can read the headline of a newspaper from space but yet they can’t find the Jet which is bigger than most homes in America. So where does this leave the public who are dependant upon such means of travel. We must also remember that it took them two years to find the air France plane that crash in Brazil so don’t expect any good news from this incident. So let’s just keep the people and their families in our prays.
Well, DNO you have been extremely busy with D/can news. It is approximately two weeks since the plane vanished with 239 people on board. Two are Canadian citizens. They may not be Canadian-born but since they received their citizenship, they are automatically considered Canadians.
This situation is so sad. It is not known who caused this. There are only speculations. There was hope that they could have landed in some remote area and are safe and sound.
My heart goes out to the victims’ families. I also think of the victims and how they were in grief when they realized the plane was going down. I pray that God had mercy on their souls.
At first I heard that there were two people with stolen passports. Later the update was approximately four people if not more.
Today I had a conversation with someone and stated, God will punish those perpetrators who are responsible for the deaths of these passengers. It also includes those who have been responsible for passengers’ deaths in previous years.
There are no virgins waiting for them in Heaven. Our Lord said, “In Heaven they neither marry nor are handed in marriage.” Those who commit such atrocious crimes, will they ever make it to Purgatory? God knows. He detests sins of any nature, worst yet such as this one, sending hundreds of people to their death.
What an awful way to die!! This is beyond sadness. My heart bleeds for the grieving families and friends. They must be inconsolable at this time. They probably never gave up hope. May God give them the strength to cope with their grief and may the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen.
our prayers and sympathies goes out to all those who loss their love ones. We are put on notice to Love and live with each other for the life we live will magnify our purpose long after we depart this fast becoming troubled World.
Jah guide over your children, because everyday is our last day. My condolences goes out to de families and love ones of all the victims in this tragic accident.
239 people lost their lives…Lord help the families in this time of grief and sadness.What are we on God’s great earth…We just passing through.R.I.P
well so much for the conspiracy theory,a tragic ending,this one’s a tough one,for the hopeful families.
That still does not rule out a conspiracy to plunge the plain in the ocean. Until the BLACK BOX is recovered, no one will know what happened in the cockpit.
Sorry, the PLANE
i cant believe that there were no communications between the pilots and the offices on land operating via sattilite.
this is heartbreaking
If no one is taking heed, I am making it clear that the end of the ages is fast approaching, this generation will be in the body to witness the coming of Jesus Christ–it is very clear in the Word of God–according to Jesus’ warnings.
However the days of the Great Tribulation will be the most difficult days that man will have to deal with; the Word of God tells us that man will call on the mountains saying: “fall on us”–that means that people will call for physical death, as they will not be able to stand the distress of the Great Tribulation. But whatever will be, will be by God’s command–not by the call of man, as it should have been from the beginning.
Jesus tells us that the day of the Great Tribulation will be so severe, that had it not been for the sake of God’s Elect–the reason He will shorten those days–no flesh would survive.
Brothers and sisters in Dominica–we don’t need any more proof to believe that Jesus is just around the corner, on His Way back to restore Life and peace on Earth as He gets rid of the strife, discord, and disdain of death among us–are you among the elects of God?
Only you can answer this question and only you can decide who you want to be. But I would advise you to make sure that you are the “sheep” and not the “goat”; neither be the “tare” but the “wheat”
Wow, you sound like the late Harold Camping. I have always told you that religion can do strange things to the mind.
Gary don’t you ever have something to write about the news article itself? I have never read where your comment is referring to what you read in the news, you know!
And for crying out loud, will you stop linking my relationship God with religion? I am not following religion it is of the world. I live in this world but I don’t belong to it.
Or if you do not understand the difference between the two why won’t you just shut up!
And one more thing! Don’t you worry about my mind condition, for it is in good shape on its way to completeness and perfection.
But worry about yours; as I have often said it before–you are a natural man with a carnal mind condition–both of those states of yours are leading you to the dust that you were formed from, as your soul goes to the deep pit of darkness with your god of this world for evermore.
For the “carnal mind” is enmity to God and the natural man cannot receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he understand them because they are spiritually discerned. –that is who you are.
Lizavier4 Juses.
Hello and good morning to you. Have you met anyone who died, Returned and told you there is a heaven and a hell. Keep waiting and keep reading that book a Jew wrote which confusing you all. To be quite honest you seems to be quite confused but I enjoy reading your post so keep it up.
Tony are you actually saying that you enjoy reading confusion? Well keep on reading anyway–I assure that it is doing good for you–you will come to know that good someday.
verry sad but courage to the families
So sad….