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22 May 2014—pm

Joint Agency Coordination Centre

ADV Ocean Shield has arrived back in the search area.

The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Bluefin-21, was deployed from the vessel around 2am this morning. It remains underwater on its search mission.

Over the next week, Bluefin-21 will search the remaining areas in the vicinity of the acoustic signals detected in early April by the Towed Pinger Locator deployed from Ocean Shield that are within its depth operating limits.

This continues the process that will ultimately enable the search team to discount or confirm the area of the acoustic signals as the final resting place of MH370.

Ocean Shield is anticipated to depart the search area on 28 May and return to Fleet Base West on 31 May where it will demobilise the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle equipment and disembark the support team.

The Chinese survey ship Zhu Kezhen departed Fremantle yesterday to begin conducting the bathymetric survey of the areas provided by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. The bathymetric survey—or mapping of the ocean floor—is being done in preparation for a commercially contracted deep ocean search, including towed side-scan sonar operations.

Chinese ship Haixun 01 will today begin transiting to the survey area to support the survey operations, including the weekly transportation of survey data to Fremantle for further processing by Geoscience Australia.

The Australian Defence Force's Military Coordination and Sub-Surface Planning team, in consultation with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, will partner with Chinese units to conduct the survey.

The work continues to review and analyse all the data and information relating to the likely flight path of MH370, together with the information acquired in the course of the search to date. This work will confirm the best areas on which to focus an effective future search.

http://www.jacc.gov.au/media/releases/2014/may/mr047.aspx
 
Putrajaya slams Anwar for exploiting MH370 tragedy
FMT Staff | May 21, 2014
Malaysia government is angry with Anwar for damaging nation's reputation for personal gain.
PETALING JAYA: Putrajaya today hit out at Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim for exploiting the MH370 tragedy and damaging Malaysia’s reputation for personal political gain.

The latest incident which riled up Putrajaya was Anwar’s allegation that the MH370 cargo manifest released by the government on May 1 has been “deleted or somehow covered-up”.
“The leader of the opposition has repeatedly tried to smear his own country to international media,” said a government spokesperson in a statement today.

The spokesperson said Anwar had previously implied that Malaysian officials were complicit in a terrorist act regarding MH370.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/ca...aya-slams-anwar-for-exploiting-mh370-tragedy/
 
Professor Pattiaratchi is familiar with what’s known about the undersea terrain in that area.

In general terms, he says, there is a single mountain called the Wallaby Plateau looming about 2000m above the seabed and surrounded by water 4000m to 5000m deep.

The terrain slopes north from the peak and some 50km to the northwest of that is a canyon that drops to 5000m. The ATSB is working on a worst-case scenario of 6000m.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...in-mh370-search/story-e6frg6n6-1226927377808#
 
MALAYSIA***Fed up, families demand Hishammuddin step down over MH370 military blunder

BY MUZLIZA MUSTAFA
MAY 23, 2014

Defence Minister and acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein (centre) with other top Malaysian officials involved in the MH370 investigations. Hishammuddin's recent defence of Malaysia's failure to scramble jets upon detecting the missing Malaysia Airlines on March 8 has renewed criticisms of his handling of the crisis. – Reuters pic, May 23, 2014.The families of flight MH370 passengers and crew have derided Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein’s weak defence of military inaction during the early hours of the plane's disappearance, and in a show of anger some have even demanded that he step down as the acting Transport Minister.

Hishammuddin told the Australian Broadcasting Corp in an interview aired on Monday that the Malaysian military had been told to keep an eye on the plane but allowed it to disappear off their radar after considering it to be non-hostile.

His statements have drawn much flak from the families of those on board the ill-fated jetliner, who said he has only fuelled more questions instead of providing answers to the incident.

They also said the statements by Hishammuddin, who is also Defence Minister, smacked of incompetence and that more honest people should be allowed to lead the investigation into the aircraft’s disappearance, instead of covering up the military’s and the government’s flaws.

Indian national Pralhad Shirsath whose wife was a passenger on the plane, questioned how the plane was allowed to pass through Malaysian airspace without any action taken, when the military knew that M370 was missing or in trouble.

“If they have reason to hide information, they should tell us and probably we will try to understand them". – Pralhad Shirsath, husband of passenger on flight MH370.

He said the minister’s statement only showed that it was part of “a plan” to make the plane disappear with some purpose.

“Mr Transport Minister said, ‘If you're not going to shoot it down, what's the point of sending it up?’



http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/...-hisham-step-down-over-mh370-military-blunder
 
PlayStation-crazy Hishammuddin Hussein's interview with an Australian TV network showed how embarrassingly inept he is as Defence Minster.
COMMENT
PlayStation-crazy Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein thinks that RMAF jets sent to investigate an unidentified aircraft must fire missiles and shoot it down. He must realise that the defence of Malaysian airspace is not like playing ‘Grand Theft Auto’.
It is bad enough having to suffer an inept Cabinet. We do not need trigger-happy ministers to start a war because of their stupidity.Hishammuddin’s performance, in the interview with ABC’s Four Corners programme, was embarrassing. He wasn’t just evasive, he was reckless and negligent.

He misunderstands his role as Defence Minister. On the night Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared, he justified the failure of the RMAF to scramble a fighter jet to investigate because the blip on the radar was “…not deemed a hostile object.”

He said, “If you’re not going to shoot it down, what’s the point of sending it (a fighter) up?” The Defence Minister does not need Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim or other people to tarnish the reputation of Malaysia. Hishammuddin is doing a splendid job by himself.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/ca...3/defending-our-airspace-is-not-a-video-game/
 
ON THE steps of Albert Street’s Uniting Church in the city’s CBD stood three sisters; each still uncertain of what had happened, but content the time had come to say goodbye.

The daughters of Cathy and Bob Lawton – missing, presumed dead after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on March 8 – personally greeted more than 300 mourners at the memorial service for the Springfield Lakes couple yesterday.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...nes-flight-mh370/story-fnihsrf2-1226929255857
 
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Major airlines want real-time tracking for commercial aircraft following the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and cost is not a concern, a senior official with the United Nations' aviation agency said on Monday.

Inmarsat Group, a satellite company whose data helped track MH370, has offered to provide airlines with tracking at no cost.

Graham, director of ICAO's Air Navigation Bureau said ownership and protection of flight data were among the issues that needed to be ironed out before a global tracking system was put in place.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/b...ft-tracking-after-mh370-mystery-u-n-official/
 
Raw satellite data on MH370 to be released Tuesday, Malaysia says

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/26/world/asia/malaysia-missing-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN) -- Raw satellite data about missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will be released Tuesday, a Malaysian official said Monday.

Malaysian acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein made the comments about the data from satellite company Inmarsat as he toured a newly constructed terminal at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
 
"The underwater search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane will effectively be put on hold this week, and may not resume until August at the very earliest, according to Australia's top transport safety official.

The new timeline means that once Bluefin-21, the American underwater drone operated by a team on board the Australian Defense Vessel Ocean Shield, wraps up its work in a couple of days, it will be up to two months, if not longer, until new underwater vehicles are contracted and deployed in the hunt for MH370."

http://www.click2houston.com/news/MH370-Next-phase-of-search-months-away/26170332



Bluefin is scheduled to wrap up operations and be returned to the US, with its support staff, on 31st May. It sounds as though that will be it for the underwater search until later in the year, perhaps in Spring when the seas are a little kinder.
 
The raw data used in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight will be released to the public tomorrow.

Malaysia's acting transport minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein announced the nation's Department of Civil Aviation and Inmarsat - the British satellite firm whose data helped track MH370 - will release the information jointly.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rch-area-released-tomorrow.html#ixzz32sDhJQuh
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Last week, Inmarsat said it would release all the data it used to determine the final path of missing flight MH370 to help reassure relatives that authorities are searching in the right location.

Inmarsat, in a joint statement with the DCA, said the data communication logs, or raw data, would be released along with an explanation of the analysis used to work out the route.

The data and analysis would be available in about a week, the spokesman said. – May 26, 2014.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/...lite-data-on-mh370-tomorrow-says-hishammuddin
 
The hunt for MH370 will be tendered to private contractors

This new ship would work with the Chinese survey vessel Zhu Kezhen, which has already begun mapping the area.

The survey is likely to take 2-3 months to complete.

The maps will allow towed sonar equipment to be deployed without the risk of it banging into undersea ridges and mountains.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Phoenix International Holdings Inc. are potential candidates after helping on the deep sea recovery of the black boxes and debris from Air France Flight 447 which crashed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in 2009


http://news.malaysia.msn.com/tmi/the-hunt-for-mh370-will-be-tendered-to-private-contractors
 
The Malaysian government has released 45 pages of satellite data used to determine the final flight path of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished March 8 with 239 on board.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Australian investigators determined that analysis of the final transmissions between the plane and a satellite found that the jetliner was likely descending after running out of fuel.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/0...-mh370-likely-crashed-after-running-out-fuel/
 
"The new data also reveals, for the first time, that authorities are considering whether the plane was on a published north-south flight path in the south-eastern Indian Ocean, known as air route M641, which connects the Cocos Island to Perth.

It is not known if this suggests the plane could have been flying on a known air route, on its own, with the crew unconscious or dead, and run out of fuel."

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/ne...-little-too-late/story-fniztvne-1226933565972
 
"The ATSB has also revealed that it is analysing low frequency signals in the Indian Ocean, recorded by hydrophones as part of a United Nations nuclear test ban and which monitor nuclear explosions, to see if they can help to refine the search area."

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/ne...-little-too-late/story-fniztvne-1226933565972



Here is a little info about the hydrophones themselves ...

"The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation operates a global network of sensors that includes cabled sound-channel hydrophones in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Hydrophones are deployed in groups of three, known as triads, so that the arrival times and azimuths of signals can be obtained."

http://www.researchgate.net/publica...ional_monitoring_system_hydroacoustic_network
 
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