Downing of flight #MH17: Highlights from press conference by Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai: • MAS will release the full passenger manifest this evening. • Malaysia is deeply concerned that the crash site hasn’t been properly secured. Integrity has been compromised. Any action that prevents us from learning the truth about what happened cannot be tolerated. It will be a betrayal for lives that were lost.” Malaysia calls for the integrity of the crash site to be preserved. MH17 has become a geopolitical issue, but it is still a human tragedy. • Liow to leave to Kiev to expedite retrieval of passenger remains and help with investigation. MAS CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya is in Kiev. • Air safety organization, Eurocontrol, and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) had approved the flight path. It never strayed into restricted airspace. MH17 was told by air traffic control to fly at 33,000 feet instead of the planned 35,000 feet. • MAS: We did not make a mistake. All airlines conduct their own track analyses, also guided by ICAO and the path was determined safe. Safety is paramount to us. Those routes were validated. • Liow on decision to fly the route: It’s like a busy highway, like if I’m driving from KL to Singapore. The highway is safe and halfway, a bridge collapses. So can you blame me for that? We were traveling on a route approved by ICAO. • Liow was unable to verify the status of the black box. Officials are yet to get access into the crash site. We need the support of the world to ensure that the site is not tampered. We must have full access to it and the evidence is not tampered. We hope to ensure that justice can prevail.” #转载 自马来西亚雅虎专页
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 09:54:56 +0000
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