On Sunday, police revealed that it was also investigating ground staff who might have come into contact with the missing aircraft, on top of all 227 passengers and the other 10 crew members. Khairul Amri Selamat, a 29-year-old aircraft engineer with aviation services firm Execujet Aviation Group, who was on board the flight, is also being probed. According to his father Selamat Omar, Khairul was expected in Beijing to repair an aircraft, adding that his son did not know how to fly an airplane. But is was not clear if Khairul's technical expertise played a role in the jet's diversion as well as in its communications shutdown. Yesterday, Acting Transport minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein saiid Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had appealed to several countries for their radar and satellite information, as well as help in the search. A spokesman from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hong Lei, confirmed that Malaysia had made such a request, said WSJ. As long as it helps the search effort, China is willing to cooperate, he was quoted as saying, while urging Malaysia to provide more accurate and comprehensive information. There were 152 Chinese nationals on MH370 and officials in Beijing have been pressuring Malaysia to speed up and increase its search efforts. Hishammuddin revealed yesterday that the last ACARS report from the plane came in at 1.07am on March 8, just 26 minutes after leaving Kuala Lumpur. The next transmission, scheduled for 30 minutes later, at 1.37am, never came. MAS CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya confirmed that the last voice heard from the cockpit at 1.19am was that of co-pilot Fariq Abd Hamid. The ACARS, it was believed, was switched off in that gap of 18 minutes. – March 18, 2014. .
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:59:39 +0000
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