The Malaysian authorities will soon release pictures of the two passengers who boarded flight MH370 on Saturday using stolen passports.
According to Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, the photos captured from CCTV footage at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) have only been shared with local and international intelligence agencies so far. But the media will soon have copies of the photos.
Hishammudin also said he did not know what Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmah Zahid Hamidi was basing his comments on when he claimed that the duo with stolen passports had Asian features.
Yesterday, Malaysian authorities came out with a statement that the duo with stolen passports was not Asian.
At this point in time, the authorities are not ruling out the possibility that an act of terrorism led to the planes’ disappearance.
A lot of Malaysians and expats living in Malaysia have been turning to the international media for updates on flight MH370 because of a lack of information from the Malaysian media and authorities. A question was posed to the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) director general Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Razak regarding the lack of information being released to the Malaysian media to report. He replied that the Malaysian authorities preferred to verify every single information received before releasing them to the media.
“What Vietnam did is report to the media whatever they found, and when we are informed of the reports we immediately contact our counterparts in Vietnam.
“Every time we do that, they deny the reports…So we have to be very, very careful when we go to the media. We have to verify, because we don’t want to give any false hope,” he stressed.
The mystery of the missing MH370 thickens every day. New reports say that the aircraft had failed to make automatic contact with a flight-data monitoring system after vanishing from radar screens. MH370 was equipped with a maintenance computer, which is capable of talking to the ground automatically through short messages known as ACARS. But based on reports, there were no ACARS from the time the aircraft went missing. Seeing no distress signal was sent from the missing plane, experts are saying that there is a possibility that the plane had experienced a sudden catastrophic failure or explosion. But, according to Malaysia’s air force chief, radar tracking showed that MH370 may have turned back from its scheduled route before going missing.
The United States had also reviewed imagery taken by spy satellites for evidence of a mid-air explosion, but found nothing. Another report claimed that the fact that authorities had so far failed to find any debris indicates that there is a possibility the plane may have broken up in mid-flight. This means the wreckage could have been dispersed over a very wide area.
In the meantime, dozens of ships and aircrafts from 10 countries are still searching the seas around Malaysia and the south of Vietnam.
Stories and quote compiled from: The Malay Mail
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