Investigators have interrogated 120 people, studied profiles of the crew, technical data related to the plane and cargo, and so forth, the document reads. However, the investigation has not revealed any major changes in the pilots’ behaviour.
Besides, the Boeing Concern’s experts finished the plane maintenance in 2012. The last signal from the Boeing-777-200 plane that has been in operation for more than 12 years with flight hours exceeding 20,000, came in about two hours after take-off in the South China Sea area, some 220 km east from the resort town of Kota Kinabalu.
The ground services recorded no signals of distress, emergency, of possible attempts by unknown persons to break into the cockpit or other contingencies. Initially, the search was conducted in the South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca, the operation involved 26 states.
However, in late March last year, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak said, referring to data of the UK satellite communications company Inmarsat that the plane’s "flight ended the southern part of the Indian Ocean." In this connection, the search was moved to another area, Australia was took charge of the international coordination search centre, which also included representatives of Malaysia and China. To date, an area of about 24,000 square kilometres has been searched, which makes about a quarter of the supposed plane’s fall area.
Unfortunately for the families of the missing, it now becomes obvious that the search may be stopped sooner or later regardless of the result. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has not excluded such a possibility. "We remain hopeful that we will solve this baffling mystery and bring the peace of knowing to the family and friends of all aboard MH370," he said.
"This is not the first major aircraft to go missing and, tragically, it may not be the last. In this day and age it seems inexplicable that the technology and systems were not in place to provide us with the exact position of this plane at all times," Abbott said. He also said he could not promise that the search operation would be continued indefinitely with the same intensity as now.................http://tass.ru/en/malaysian-boeing-777-crash/781699
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