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Malaysia Chronicle
Wednesday, 20 August 2014 16:56
NO ONE TRUSTS PUTRAJAYA? Chinese hackers ‘stole’ classified data from M’sian MH370 probe.
Chinese hackers stole classified information from Malaysian officials involved in the search for MH370 a day after the plane disappeared, it was claimed today.
Government departments were sent e-mails containing a virus disguised as a hoax news report saying the Malaysian Airlines jet had been found.
When the attachment was opened, the virus – known as malware – began extracting sensitive data and sending it to a computer in China.
The attack came at a time when Malaysian officials in charge of the search were being heavily criticised – particularly by the Chinese – for not releasing crucial information.
Targeted’: Chinese hackers have been accused of stealing classified information from Malaysian officials involved in the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 a day after it disappeared on March 8.
It was spotted by CyberSecurity Malaysia – a Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation agency – which blocked the transmissions and shut down the infected machines.
But by then around 30 computers in the Department of Civil Aviation, the National Security Council and Malaysia Airlines had been infected and an unknown amount of information stolen, a source said.
CyberSecurity Malaysia chief executive Dr Amirudin Abdul Wahab told Nicholas Cheng from the Malaysia Star: ‘We received reports from the administrators of the agencies telling us that their network was congested with e-mail going out of their servers.
‘Those e-mails contained confidential data from the officials’ computers, including the minutes of meetings and classified documents. Some of these were related to the MH370 investigation.
‘This was well-crafted malware that anti-virus programs couldn’t detect. It was a very sophisticated attack.’
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The breach was traced to an IP address – a unique number assigned to each computer on a network – in China, but no further details have been given.
Interpol are reportedly working with the agencies with the investigation.
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IT’S TERRIBLE, ISN’T IT, GIVING THE FAMILIES SUCH FALSE HOPE?
THEY SEARCHED AND SEARCHED BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED THAT THE 4 PINGS CAME FROM THE BLACK BOXES OF MH370!
Now it appears that the pings did not come from MH370!
Nor is MH370 in the South Indian Ocean!!!
In a statement earlier today, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) said the Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle completed its last mission yesterday, and after having scoured more than 850 square kilometres of the ocean floor had found no sign of the missing aircraft.
“The data collected on yesterday’s mission has been analysed. As a result, the JACC can advise that no sign of aircraft debris have been found by the autonomous underwater vehicle since it joined the search effort.
“With that, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has advised that the search in the vicinity of the acoustic detections can now be considered complete and in its professional judgment, the area can now be discounted as the final resting place of MH370.”
Despite weeks of intense search for MH370, it was announced today that an area in the southern Indian Ocean shows no sign of the ill-fated aircraft. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, May 29, 2014.
The Malay Mail Online shared a link.
CNN Breaking News4 pings that focused search for Flight 370 are no longer believed to have come from black boxes, U.S. Navy official tells CNN
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Malaysia Chronicle
Thursday, 29 May 2014 09:15
WHY ARE M’SIA & AUSTRALIA SUDDENLY SO QUIET? US Navy confirms pings NOT from MH370
THE four acoustic pings detected in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 are not from the plane’s black boxes, according to the US Navy.
A Navy official has told CNN that the pings are now universally believed to have come from a man-made source unrelated to the missing jetliner, and not from the plane’s data or cockpit voice recorders.
Michael Dean, the Navy’s deputy director of ocean engineering has told CNN that if the pings had come from the recorders, searchers would have found them.
“Our best theory at this point is that (the pings were) likely some sound produced by the ship … or within the electronics of the Towed Pinger Locator,” Dean said.
“Always your fear any time you put electronic equipment in the water is that if any water gets in and grounds or shorts something out, that you could start producing sound.”
When asked if the other nations involved in the search effort also believed the pings were unrelated to MH370, Dean answered “yes”.
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This comes after News Corp Australia last week revealed that underwater scientists have labelled the search for MH370 a “debacle” and say Prime Minister Tony Abbott was playing politics when he prematurely announced the black box pingers had been found.
The acoustic experts, who do not wish to be identified, said the four crucial signals detected by a US pinger locator were almost certainly not from the missing Malaysian Airlines plane’s black boxes, but from another man-made source.
They insisted that the signals were in the wrong frequency and detected too far apart to be from the boxes.
“As soon as I saw the frequency and the distance between the pings I knew it couldn’t be the aircraft pinger,” one scientist told News Corp Australia.
That conclusion is supported by the lack of success from a detailed search of the area conducted by the US deep sea drone ‘Bluefin 21’.
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YAHOO! NEWS MALAYSIA
Fed up, families demand Hishammuddin step down over MH370 military blunder
The Malaysian Insider – Fri, 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.
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Shirsath believed that the latest revelation only proved that the Malaysian government was hiding more information from the families and the public.
https://my.news.yahoo.com/fed-families-demand-hishammuddin-step-down-over-mh370-010003952.html
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YAHOO! NEWS MALAYSIA
HISHAM REVEALS ANOTHER SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD!
Told to keep an eye on MH370, the Malaysian authorities did nothing when it flew almost directly over the Malaysian military air base located on the island of Penang!
Hishammuddin now says military told to keep an eye on MH370
The Malaysian Insider
The saga of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 took a new turn yesterday following latest revelations that the Malaysian military had been told to keep an eye on the plane but had allowed it to disappear off their radar after considering it as non-hostile.
The new revelation was made by acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein during an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corp’s Four Corners programme.
This was the first time that Malaysia had said that civil aviation authorities told the military to keep an eye on the aircraft – a fact which was not mentioned in the five-page preliminary report on the plane’s disappearance released by the Ministry of Transport on May 1.
The much-criticised preliminary report had made no mention of the instructions from the civil aviation authorities to the military to monitor the plane.
Instead, the brief report, which had been sent to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), revealed a chaotic four hours after communications between Malaysia air traffic controllers, the flag carrier and other regional air traffic controllers before a hunt was initiated.
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Speaking on the Four Corners programme, Hishammuddin said that the military did not send a plane up to investigate as “it was not deemed a hostile object and pointless if you are not going to shoot it down”.
He was defending the military’s failure to scramble a fighter jet after flight MH370 had disappeared from civilian radar on March 8 when its transponder stopped transmitting during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing around 1.21am.
The military radar had tracked it after it made a turn-back and turned in a westerly direction across the peninsula.
“If you’re not going to shoot it down, what’s the point of sending it (a fighter) up?” Hishammuddin was quoted as asking on the Four Corners programme.
https://my.news.yahoo.com/hishammuddin-now-says-military-told-keep-eye-mh370-025118812.html
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NAJIB ADMITS INCOMPETENCE
Malaysiakini
11:43AM May 14, 2014
Najib admits to missteps in search for MH370
Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has admitted to missteps in the search for MH370, and urged other countries to learn from the incident.
“But we didn’t get everything right. In the first few days after the plane disappeared, we were so focused on trying to find the aircraft that we did not prioritise our communications.
“Also, it took air traffic controllers four hours to launch the search-and-rescue operation,” Najib wrote in an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal last night.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/262718
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SCANDALOUS! EXPERTS WERE PUT IN THEIR PLACE: IN THEIR HOTEL ROOMS!
Malaysiakini
2:54PM May 10, 2014
‘MH370 probe team was stuck in hotel watching TV’
“They sat there watching TV,” a former US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member John Goglia told the magazine Popular Mechanics.
Goglia described the Malaysian response to the MH370 incident as “a mess” that took weeks to start following international procedures on airplane mishaps.
This included the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) guidelines stating that Malaysia should assemble a team of international experts “who work as equals” to investigate.
“They didn’t follow well-established international procedures from the very beginning, and it took weeks before they started to. And that got them off on the wrong foot,” he told the magazine.
Details still secret
Goglia also noted that many aspects of the investigation that are needed remain obscure.
“Everybody that had a role even remotely would have been interviewed about what they heard, what they knew, and all of that would have been vetted,” he was quoted saying.
“While Malaysian authorities claim to have conducted extensive interviews, the details are still secret – as is much else surrounding the mystery of MH370,” concluded the magazine.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/262407
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29 April 2014
More than 50 days have passed since MH370 went missing on March 8 and an Australian-led search in the Indian Ocean, where the Boeing 777-200ER was presumed to have crashed, has yielded nothing.
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Malaysian Insider
Why is Malaysia hiding MH370 report, asks aviation expert
Five days after Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak declared on CNN that a preliminary report on the disappearance of MH370 had been submitted to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), an aviation expert has asked why is Malaysia hiding the report and not releasing it to the public.
While the world continued to wait for any evidence of the Malaysia Airlines flight, Malaysia had taken the “surprising” step of submitting a report to the United Nations agency, Clive Irving said yesterday in The Daily Beast.
“It’s not customary for air accident investigation reports to go to the ICAO. It’s the responsibility of each nation’s accident investigation agency to release the reports directly to the public as (it sees) fit, according to long-established protocols that demonstrate the independence of the investigators from both political and industry influence,” Irving said on the news portal.
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DID HISHAM JUST RECEIVE A BACKHANDED SLAP FROM OBAMA?
Obama, said by Hisham to have been suppportive of Hisham’s and Malaysia’s eforts in the search for MH370, calls for transparency, surely in reference to the worldwide criticism that the Malaysian government is withhodling vital information.
Malaysiakini
2:42PM Apr 27, 2014
Obama calls for ‘full transparency’ over MH370
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/261174
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CHINA SHUTS DIPLOMATIC DISTRICT!
Malaysia Chronicle
Sunday, 27 April 2014 08:41
SHOCK MOVE: China SHUTS embassies after protests by MH370 relatives
STANDOFF IN BEIJING! Ten MAS staff ‘HELD’ against their will by MH370 relatives
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COLUMNIST IN USA TODAY SEES MALAYSIA’S HANDLING OF MH370 AS JUST THE LATEST EXAMPLE OF ITS INEPT LEADERSHIP.
USA Today
Fiasco over missing airliner just the latest example of country’s inept leadership.
As errors, misstatements, retractions and head-scratching rationalizations tumble over each other in the case of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the world is coming to recognize what the country has known for decades — that Malaysia’s leaders are accustomed to getting away with murder.
Sometimes figuratively: For example, with elections looming and Prime Minister Najib Razak losing popularity, top opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim recently was sentenced to five years in prison on a sodomy charge. Two years ago, Anwar, who enjoys support in Washington, was acquitted after spending six years in prison on the same charge.
And sometimes perhaps literally: In October 2006, the gruesome remains of a human body were discovered on a remote hilltop outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s principal city. There was no corpse, really, just hunks of flesh and shattered bone. DNA determined that the victim was a 28-year-old Mongolian woman who had been involved in a long love affair with one of Najib’s closest advisers.
These instances of real-life political shenanigans and pulp-fiction-style crime share deep cultural and behavioral traits with Malaysia’s clumsy handling of the mysterious Boeing 777 and the 239 people on board.
Spinning dubious stories
In the cases of the murder and the missing plane, Najib and other political leaders have felt free to spin their own dubious stories. The big difference is that this time, the world is watching as the leaders repeatedly are caught in their own web of claims and denials, allegations and refutations.
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Najib, prime minister for five years, until now has remained aloof and secure from the world’s stares. With the disappearance of Flight 370 and the world pointing repeatedly to all the faulty information coming out of Malaysia, business as usual finally might be coming to an end.
Lewis M. Simons, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was based in Malaysia with his wife and two daughters, who were born there.
Click on the link for the full article:
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Malaysian Insider
MAS staff detained by angry relatives in China, says airline
Angry relatives of people missing on Malaysia Airline flight MH370 held some members of the carrier’s staff for more than 10 hours in a hotel in Beijing, the airline said today.
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More than 200 family members held 10 Malaysian Airline staff after a briefing at a Beijing hotel, only releasing them early today, the airline said.
“Malaysia Airlines confirms that its staff were held at the Lido Hotel ballroom in Beijing by the family members of MH370 as the families expressed dissatisfaction in obtaining details of the missing aircraft,” the airline said.
In another incident, a Chinese family member attacked a Malaysian Airline’s security supervisor on duty at same hotel on Tuesday, the airline said.
The member of staff sustained a light injury and the airline had filed a police report, it added.
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Free Malaysia Today
MH370 families protest at Malaysia embassy
BEIJING: Dozens of relatives of passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 held an overnight protest outside the Malaysian embassy in Beijing demanding information from officials, two participants said on Friday.
The protest followed a chaotic meeting on Thursday between airline staff and relatives who have been waiting for nearly 50 days without any sighting of the plane, prompting police to step in to separate both sides.
About two-thirds of the 239 passengers aboard the missing plane came from China, and many of their relatives have waited with frustration at a hotel in Beijing for updates, often venting at airline or government officials who come to brief them.
“I spent the whole night outside the embassy, there are still many people waiting outside,” said Wen Wancheng, whose son was on the flight. He estimated that several dozen took part in the protest.
Relatives, who are staying at the hotel at the airline’s expense, previously banned a Malaysian embassy official from attending daily briefings at the hotel, but are now demanding that the embassy send a replacement, Wen said.
Steven Wang, another relative, said about 100 people had waited outside the premises overnight. “We want somebody from the embassy to come out and tell us why they didn’t come,” he added.
Police fanned out around the embassy on Friday morning, barring reporters from nearing the building. Embassy staff were not immediately available for comment.
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Malaysian Insider
Angry MH370 relatives demand data for independent analysis, says CNN
Relatives angry over reports that debris found in the Indian Ocean were not from the missing flight MH370 have demanded that the authorities release the data so external experts can analyse them, reported CNN.
Steve Wang’s mother was on the plane that vanished March 8 after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing.
He and other relatives have rejected the announcement by Malaysian authorities that the plane went down in the southern Indian Ocean.
Wang told CNN that the relatives were doubtful that “they (the authorities) are searching the right place.”
He and others want independent experts to crunch the data available.
A committee representing some of the Chinese families have posted 26 questions on the Chinese social media site, Weibo.
Among their requests are access to the flight’s logbook and recording of air traffic control on the night the plane carrying 239 people on board vanished.
“It’s astounding to me that they haven’t been willing to release that data,” said Sarah Bajc, partner of American passenger Philip Wood. She appeared on CNN on Tuesday.
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Wang and Bajc said some relatives felt that the Malaysian authorities had treated them callously.
More than two-thirds of the passengers were Chinese, and many of their relatives were distrustful of Malaysian authorities’ assertion that the plane went down in the southern Indian Ocean.
“We just want to tell them, ‘Stop lying!'” Wang reportedly said.
“They are telling to the whole world that they have good communication with the relatives,” he said, explaining that questions family members have tried to pose were met with opposition from officials.
“…They just said, ‘Oh, stop asking the questions and face the fact,” he continued. “What is the fact? What kind of fact (do) they want us to face? Do they have the fact(s)? So they are lying to the whole world again.”
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Malaysian Insider
MH370 Chinese families demand body, evidence from Malaysians, says CNN
A relative of a passenger on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 crying as she speaks to Malaysian representatives during a briefing at the Lido Hotel in Beijing on Monday. – Reuters pic, April 23, 2014.
A grey-haired Chinese national named Wen sobbed uncontrollably as he questioned a Malaysian diplomat in Beijing over the fate of his son and all the 239 on board the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner, CNN reported.
“Mr Ambassador, as time goes on we know that the odds of my son and the other relatives on the plane having survived are becoming smaller and smaller.
“To know that somebody is alive, you need to see them. To know that somebody is dead, you need to see the body. That’s all I ask of you,” Wen said, weeping as others in the packed conference room of the Beijing hotel also wept quietly in their seats, the report said.
But the visibly uncomfortable representative from Malaysia’s embassy in Beijing could do little more than repeat Putrajaya’s talking points.
“There’s a team coming to answer your questions. Let them come. Let them come,” deputy chief of mission Bala Chandran Tharman pleaded, according to the CNN report.
But he only managed to anger the relatives who erupted into fist-waving chants: “Live up to commitments! No more delays! No more lies!”
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Malaysian Insider
‘Tiny bit’ of evidence first before death certificates, say MH370 families
April 22, 2014
The partner of an American passenger on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has questioned the satellite data analysis, which concluded that the plane ended in the southern Indian Ocean, where the current search operation is being conducted.
In an email on behalf of “The United Families of MH370”, Sara Bacj, whose partner Philip Wood is among the 239 people on board MH370, demanded an explanation from Putrajaya on why it went with the analysis by Inmarsat, the British satellite company.
“They have failed to share why they would accept a single source (Inmarsat) for analysis utilising a never-before-attempted method, as their sole grounds for determining that the plane is under the water and all lives lost,” the Wall Street Journal quoted her email sent to the media.
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Bacj, in her email, however questioned the absence of any independent scientific review of Inmarsat’s technical analysis, which led to Malaysia’s conclusion.
“We don’t expect that they find all of the plane, or all of the bodies, or even that they know everything about how this surreal situation happened, but we do expect at least a tiny bit of concrete evidence,” WSJ quoted another version of the email, written in Chinese and sent to relatives of Chinese passengers.
“WE ARE IN UTTER OUTRAGE, DESPAIR AND SHOCK!” the email concluded.
The email comes as Putrajaya prepares to issue death certificates to the families of passengers and crew missing on board flight MH370.
The move is significant as it will open the door to financial aid for families and also allow any potential suits against the airline to begin.
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WATCH THE VIDEO!
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26 QUESTIONS & a scary depth of DISTRUST for Malaysian officials
The man’s anger at authorities giving a briefing on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 could not be contained.
He screamed at the screen as a promised video conference with Malaysian authorities became the latest part of the aftermath of the plane’s disappearance to encounter technical difficulties.
“You’re all bloody liars, and you’re lying to us again,” the Chinese man said, according to a translation.
Families of the passengers on the missing plane in attendance at the Beijing briefing Wednesday exploded in anger and stormed out.
“We will request their team of experts to come to Beijing to conduct face-to-face communications and fulfill their commitment,” said Jing Hui, a spokesman for some of the families. “What Is the truth? What problem do they want to cover up?”
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*FIRST LADY OF MALAYSIA DEFENDS THE INDEFENSIBLE!
Basically, she says, “All of you SHUT UP!”
Malaysian Insider
Putrajaya’s handling of MH370 crisis
The Prime Minister’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor has spoken out against critics of Putrajaya’s handling of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 crisis, describing them as cowards for not providing solutions.
“Don’t throw stones and then hide your hands behind your back (make wild allegations). That’s cowardice, don’t just talk and not provide solutions,” she told national news agency Bernama’s Ruang Bicara programme last night.
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*WAS PUTRAJAYA TRUTHFUL OR HIDING INFORMATION ABOUT MH370?
1,029 were surveyed.
54% said NOT TRUTHFUL.
26% said TRUTHFUL.
20% said NOT SURE.
Malaysian Insider
More than 50% Malaysians feel Putrajaya hiding information on MH370, poll shows
More than half of Malaysians polled last month believe that the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) government has been hiding information about flight MH370’s disappearance, according to a new survey by The Malaysian Insider.
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In response to the question whether they thought Putrajaya had been truthful or had been hiding anything about MH370, 54% of respondents felt Malaysia had been hiding information, 26% said the government had been truthful while 20% were unsure.
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Chinese respondents were almost unanimous in giving the thumbs down to the BN federal government.
The poll figures showed that the slight majority of Indian and Malay respondents, too, believed Putrajaya had been hiding information.
This time, respondents from both rural and urban areas were united in believing that Putrajaya has been less than forthcoming with information about MH370.
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On the performance of Malaysian ministers in the MH370 crisis, 21% of the respondents said they were very dissatisfied while 19% were very satisfied.
Despite the criticism Putrajaya has faced from local and international quarters since the MH370 crisis, 51% of respondents said they were confident about the government.
However, 45% of respondents said they were not confident about Putrajaya post-MH370 crisis.
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*DID THE CO-PILOT MAKE A CALL BEFORE THE FLIGHT TOOK OFF?
NST
Call traced to co-pilot’s phone
KUALA LUMPUR: A CREW member of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 made a desperate call from his mobile phone as the plane was flying low near Penang, the morning it went missing.
The latest breakthrough in the ongoing criminal investigation traced the source of the call to co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid’s phone.
The New Straits Times has learnt that investigators are poring over this discovery as they try to piece together what had happened moments before the Boeing 777-22ER twinjet went off the radar, some 200 nautical miles (320km) northwest of Penang on March 8.
It is understood that the aircraft with 239 people on board was flying at an altitude low enough for the nearest telecommunications tower to pick up his phone’s signal.
His call, however, ended abruptly, but not before contact was established with a telecommunications sub-station in the state.
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The Daily Mail says he did. It quotes The New Straits Times.
Hishammuddin says that the co-pilot did not but by right, he should have been aware of it (the phone call) earlier, if the claim by the newspaper was true.
Malaysiakini
2:42PM Apr 12, 2014
‘Co-pilot tried to phone before plane vanished’
Malaysiakini has contacted inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar on the veracity of this morning’s report and is awaiting a response.
The report names the co-pilot (above) as ‘Fariq Abdul Rahman’, instead of Fariq Abdul Hamid. It also mentioned the aircraft’s model as a Boeing 777-22ER – the missing aircraft is a Boeing 777-200ER.
Meanwhile when asked at a press conference today, Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein declined to comment on the alleged phone call, saying curtly, “You have to ask NST‘s comments about that.”
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/259814
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Investigators reveal MH370 co-pilot tried to make a call from his mobile phone after the aircraft ‘vanished’ but ‘was abruptly cut off’…
The co-pilot of missing flight MH370 made a call from his mobile phone while the aircraft flew low over the west coast of Malaysia, it was revealed today as the U.S. denied reports the plane landed at a military base on the remote island of Diego Garcia.
Investigators have learned that the call was made from Fariq Abdul Hamid’s mobile phone as the Boeing 777 flew low near the island of Penang, on the north of Malaysia’s west coast.
The New Straits Times reported the aircraft, with 239 people on board, was flying low enough for the nearest telecommunications tower to pick up Fariq’s signal.
The call ended abrupty, however it has been learned that contact was definitely established with a telecommunications sub-station in Penang state.
The paper said it had been unable to ascertain who Fariq was trying to call ‘as sources chose not to divulge details of the investigation.’
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The paper added that it had also been established that Fariq’s last communication was through the WhatsApp Messenger app and that it had been made at about 11.30pm on March 7, shortly before he boarded the aircraft for the six-hour flight to Beijing.
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*CNN reports that the Royal Malaysia Air Force (RMAF) had indeed scrambled its search aircraft on the morning of Flight MH370’s disappearance, but did not inform authorities until three days later.
IS THIS CNN EXPOSE ALL LIES, MADE UP BY UNSCRUPULOUS NEWS MEDIA?
WE ARE WAITING FOR SOMEONE IN AUTHORITY TO DENY THIS!
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HERE COMES THE DENIAL!
Free Malaysia Today
Putrajaya denies scrambling jets
Acting Transport Minister says a CNN report that Malaysia scrambled its jets soon after the disappearance of the missing MH370 was false.
PETALING JAYA: The Transport Ministry has rubbished a CNN report which claimed that Malaysia scrambled its fighter jet to look for MH370, soon after the plane went missing over the South China Sea in the wee hours of March 8.
The Ministry said the CNN report that the Royal Malaysian Air Force scrambled search aircraft soon after the Boeing 777-200ER jet, carrying 239 passengers and crew, disappeared from the civilian radar, was false.
The communications team of acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein tweeted last night that the CNN report was a false allegation.
“Latest from @CNN claiming that Msian Air Force aircraft scrambled soon after @MAS reported #MH370 missing early 8/3 (March 8) is a false allegation,” said a
Twitter message from the team posted at 10.29pm, yesterday on its official Twitter account @H2OComms.
The Minister later re-tweeted the message on his official Twitter account, @HishammuddinH2O.
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2014/04/11/putrajaya-denies-scrambling-jets/
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Malaysiakini
8:58AM Apr 10, 2014
‘RMAF sent plane after MH370, DCA not told’
RMAF only informed of MH370 detection 3 days later
7.30pm: CNN reports that the Royal Malaysia Air Force (RMAF) had indeed scrambled its search aircraft on the morning of Flight MH370’s disappearance, but did not inform authorities until three days later.
Quoting a senior Malaysian government official and another source involved in the investigation, CNN states “Malaysian air force search aircraft were scrambled around 8am, soon after Malaysia Airlines (MAS) reported that its plane was missing early March 8.”
It reports that aircraft were scrambled before authorities could corroborate data indicating the Boeing 777 turned back westward.
The unnamed source states RMAF had “not informed the Department of Civil Aviation or search and rescue operations until three days later, March 11″.
It further reports Flight MH 370 disappeared from military radar for some 120 nautical miles after it crossed back over Peninsular Malaysia.
“Based on available data, this means the plane must have dipped in altitude to between 4,000 and 5,000 feet,” claims the senior government official.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/259603
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Malaysian Insider
In MH370, Putrajaya bares its deepest flaws, says Bloomberg columnist
April 10, 2014
A prominent Bloomberg columnist wrote yesterday that the global outcry over the loss of flight MH370 has highlighted Putrajaya’s deepest flaws, and all-too-few of its strengths.
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Referring to the slew of criticism directed at Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Putrajaya’s efforts in dealing with the crisis, Pesek said: “Fairly or not, since March 8 when flight 370 disappeared on its way to Beijing, Malaysia has lost a great deal of its standing both in the region and around the world.”
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“The country needs nothing less than a political revolution,” said Pesek.
“The flight 370 crisis has fully exposed the dangers of allowing one party to rule a nation for six decades. Since rising to the top job in 2009, Najib has had to divert his attention from revitalising Malaysia’s economy to maintaining Umno’s long hold on power.”
Pesek added that Putrajaya’s bad handling of flight MH370 was no fluke.
“The fumbling exposed a political elite that’s never really had to face questioning from its people, never mind the rest of the world.
“That same political culture created and coddled national carrier Malaysia Airlines. Not surprisingly, even before this, the airline had fared poorly against peers amid growing global competition,” he said.
Pesek’s view coincides with what New York Times journalist Thomas Fuller said just days after flight MH370 went missing.
The Southeast Asian affairs expert said that the lack of coordination between Malaysian agencies and the conflicting updates on the worldwide search for the missing MH370 only shows how out of depth the country’s leaders are in handling a crisis.
“But worldwide bafflement at the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has challenged the country’s paternalistic political culture and exposed its coddled leaders to the withering judgments of critics from around the world,” he said.
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*THERE THEY GO AGAIN, THE IGP SAYING ONE THING AND HISHAMMUDDIN SAYING THE OPPOSITE!
On Wednesday, inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar said that the police have cleared all passengers of hijacking, sabotage as well as psychological and personal problems, which are the focus of the investigation into ill-fated plane.
Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein now says, “I don’t think anyone has been cleared from any of the investigations.”
Malaysiakini
7:58PM Apr 5, 2014
Hisham contradicts IGP, no one on MH370 cleared yet (http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/259206)
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Hishammudin Hussein tweets and gets negative reaction!
Malaysian Insider
Hishammuddin caught in social media storm over ‘insensitive’ MH370 tweet
Many netizens were shocked when the minister expressed his agreement to a tweet posted by Malaysian journalist Ismail Amsyar Mohd Said who said: “MH370 is a blessing in disguise for all of us. I understand now the beauty of unity, the sweetness of having each other…”
Six minutes later, Hishammuddin tweeted: “Right u are:) @IsmailAmsyar: #MH370 is a blessing in disguise 4"all of us. I understand now d beauty of unity& sweetness of having each other.”
His reply through his Twitter handle @HishammuddinH2O shocked his followers, who questioned the appropriateness of the tweet.
Herald Sun reported that many suggested that it was insulting to the families of the 239 people on board the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that has been missing since March 8.
Hishammuddin, who is very active on Twitter, has since removed his tweet.
Ismail, a Kuala Lumpur-based journalist with news agency Bernama, had also deleted his original tweet and has since been trying to apologise, explain and defend his intention.
The tweet by Datuk Seri Hishammudin Hussein that shocked his followers, who questioned the appropriateness of the tweet. The tweet has since been deleted. – Herald Sun screenshot, April 3, 2014.
He tweeted this morning that he is sorry “from the bottom of his heart” for his original tweet and claimed he got an online death threat, Herald Sun reported.
He also posted a series of tweets this morning: “Some may look at it as insensitive and I apologise for that. I have given my explanation on that tweet & those explanation weren’t count.”
“I got what u all meant… but i’m not being insensitive or anything. I look at them as my family and i want them back. My apology.”
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Hishammudin Hussein speaks..
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Malaysia’s Hishammuddin Hussein is the face of MH370 to the world… as head of the investigation, as Minister of Defence, and as Acting Minister of Transport. But it is to the families, he says, that he owes his commitment. In Part Two of an exclusive, he speaks again with James Chau in Kuala Lumpur. He reveals that he’s appointed a Malaysian Chinese politician as Special Envoy… to help smooth communications with the relatives of the Chinese passengers.
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Malaysia Chronicle
Wednesday, 02 April 2014 06:43
M’SIA BREAKS UNDER STRESS: Minister now lashes out at Boeing, Rolls-Royce as MH370 search remains FRUITLESS
In a sign of the huge strain in hunting for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein has expressed frustration at the failure of international agencies, and the makers of the missing Boeing 777 and its engines, to explain what went wrong.
The acting Transport Minister suggested to Chinese television channel CCTV that it was unfair for Malaysia Airlines to be singled out for criticism in the way they communicated to the families of the missing 227 passengers and 12 crew.
“MAS will have to do a better job in engaging those families.
“But just putting MAS on the witness stand [is not enough] – we also need to bear in mind what is the role and the responsibility of Rolls Royce, of Boeing, of all these expert agencies. Where is their voice?,” Hishammuddin said in an interview carried by CCTV yesterday.
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*MH370: THE 7 DEADLY MISTAKES OF THE MALAYSIAN GOVT.
Seven defining errors raised by news portal CNN and other critics on the matter:
1. Malaysian military radar noticed blips of a plane believed to be flight MH370, but they were not noticed in real time.
2. Early briefings seemed chaotic, leaving questions as to who was in charge.
3. An official’s inaccurate description of the two men travelling on stolen passports as resembling a black Italian football player.
4. From “none of those on board survived” to “hoping against hope”.
5. Glaring errors as to the last words from the cockpit.
6. More confusion over who spoke those words.
7. Delay in switching search zones.
The Malaysian Insider
Seven errors in the search for flight MH370
(http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/seven-errors-in-the-search-for-flight-mh370)
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Foxnews.com
Mistrust between US, Malaysia strains probe of missing jet
Mistrust between U.S. and Malaysian air-accident investigators has hampered a multinational probe into the jetliner that disappeared three weeks ago, people familiar with the investigation said, with no clear leads emerging about who or what was responsible for its disappearance.
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U.S. investigators say they aren’t getting a full flow of information from the Malaysians—prompting some to complain to headquarters in Washington that they feel relegated to the margins, according to several people familiar with the matter. Malaysian investigators, meanwhile, are wary of information leaks they believe are occurring more regularly among their counterparts from Washington.
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..Though investigators have determined the Boeing 777 went down somewhere in the Indian Ocean, based on satellite data, a criminal probe into the flight’s disappearance has yielded few clues in the two weeks since the Malaysian government announced its suspicion that a deliberate act brought down the Boeing 777.
Twin probes into how and why the plane went down rest largely in the hands of Malaysian police and air-safety officials, and Americans working in Kuala Lumpur are convinced their side is “mainly getting bits and pieces, rather than a full download from the Malaysians,” said one U.S. official briefed on the investigation. Members of the on-site U.S. contingent are “vetting all the information they do get, to ensure accuracy,” the official added.
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..Some people on the Malaysian side perceive Washington to be full of leaks, particularly in the first few days after the plane vanished March 8.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/29/mistrust-between-us-malaysia-strains-probe-missing-jet/
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SATURDAY, 29 MARCH 2014: JUST IN!
Video:
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YAHOO! NEWS SINGAPORE
Chinese familes passengers on board missing Malaysia airlines jet hold a small protest against Malaysian government in Beijing, as Malaysia’s transport minister meets relatives in Kuala Lumpur. Sarah Toms reports.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/video/families-passengers-board-missing-jet-102433979.html
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*Malaysian authorities say that they have “sealed evidence that cannot be made public”.
ANGRY, ANGUISHED FAMILIES OF CHINA’S CITIZENS LOST ON FLIGHT MH370 ASK, “WHY?”
Malaysia Chronicle
Friday, 28 March 2014 07:58
Malaysia now admits keeping ‘SEALED EVIDENCE’ from MH370 next of kin
The families’ anger has not diminished this week; the Straits Times reported that Malaysian authorities infuriated passengers’ loved ones by telling them at a briefing this week that there was “sealed evidence that cannot be made public” in relation to the missing flight.
“The sealed evidence included air traffic control radio transcript, radar data and airport security recordings,” the paper reported.
The remarks by Malaysian authorities — made at the Metropark Lido Hotel in Beijing — have not been reported by other major newspapers, despite being widely shared on social media.
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While his Big Brother from UMNO, Zahid Hamidi, blames the Chinese language press, this Gerakan man castigates pro-Pakatan netizens!
Free Malaysia Today
MH370: ‘Pro-Pakatan netizens have disgraced the nation’
A BN lawmaker rebukes online pro-opposition groups for mocking the nation over the MH370 tragedy.
KUALA LUMPUR: Barisan Nasional’s Simpang Renggam MP Liang Teck Meng today said online pro-Pakatan Rakyat groups have disgraced Malaysia by circulating photos and comments that made people view the government in a negative light over the MH370 tragedy.
He said some pro-Pakatan groups on Facebook, such as one called “We Fully Support PKR DAP”, have purposely quoted angry statements by media from China and well-known Chinese actors, and twisted it to attack the government.
In one example, he said, an image showed Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak at the MH370 press conference venue, with the caption: “China families shouted: Malaysia government is lying, BN is murderer!”.
The image also carries a cross-line “putting all Malaysians in disgrace”.
Another image dared Najib to use the Sedition Act against Chinese media which ran critical reports of Malaysia’s search and rescue operations. The third one challenged Najib to repeat the sentence: “Apa lagi Cina Mau ? (What more does the Chinese want)”.
Liang said he is disappointed that Pakatan supporters have resorted to use dirty tactic to “criticise, humiliate and disgrace the nation” when it is faced with a major crisis.
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MAS TEXT MESSAGE
FALL OUT FROM TEXT MESSAGE SPREADS…FROM CHINA TO AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND!
The Sydney Morning Herald
Missing Malaysia Airlines jet: New Zealand family criticises MH370 death text
March 27, 2014 – 12:34PM
The family of Paul Weeks, who was aboard the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight, have criticised Malaysia’s handling of the information flow about the search operation.
His wife Danica Weeks found out in a text message from the airline that her husband had likely died when the plane crashed in the Indian Ocean and his sister, Sara, had to rely on a call from her mother to hear the news.
New Zealander Paul Weeks was among the passengers on the missing China-bound Malaysia Airlines jet.‘‘The whole situation has been handled appallingly, incredibly insensitively,’’ Sara Weeks* told Radio Live in New Zealand on Thursday.
‘‘Everyone is angry about it.
‘‘The Malaysian government, the airline, it’s just all been incredibly poor.
‘‘Who’s to say they couldn’t have located the plane the day that it happened.’’
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Malaysiakini
0:42AM Mar 27, 2014
Family fury across Pacific to New Zealand
MH370 Anger over Malaysia’s announcement that MH370 fell with no survivors has moved across the Pacific Ocean to New Zealand where a passenger’s wife was alerted via text message.
Sara Weeks, the sister of Paul Weeks, in an interview with local media said the situation has been handled “appallingly, incredibly insensitively”.
Paul’s wife Danica received a text message from Malaysia Airlines, while Sara got the news at 3.30am via a phone call from her mother who did not want Sara to hear it on the news.
“Everyone is angry about it.
“The Malaysian government, the airline, it’s just all been incredibly poor.
“Who’s to say they can’t locate the airline the day it happened?”
She also said that information was withheld from families and took very long to get through.
This follows acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein’s appeal for calm from families.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/258326
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ZAHID HAMIDI LOOKS FOR A SCAPEGOAT: THE CHINESE LANGUAGE PRESS!
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Cuba Suruh Tun “M” Tue Tapis Nie Hahahahahahah…………………………. pic.twitter.com/JD7vViQrPj
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YAHOO! NEWS SINGAPORE
MH370: Minister says Chinese press ‘fueled’ anger towards Malaysia
The Malay Mail Online
KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 ― Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi blamed the Chinese media today for fueling the anger of families in Beijing towards the Malaysian authorities over the MH370 tragedy.
The Home Minister said it was the “Chinese language papers” and “print media’s” coverage of the crisis that led to such criticism of Malaysia but stopped short of specifying if he was referring to the local press or news organisations from China.
“The writings of most of these Chinese-language papers have played on sentiments and have fueled the anger of relatives of the passengers from China who were on board MH370,” Ahmad Zahid said during his winding up speech on the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong’s royal address in Parliament here.
He said the attacks against the Malaysian government was grossly unfair, and stressed that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was doing everything humanly possible to “solve the problem.”
“It has to be pointed out that this incident was an accident, and no one ever wanted this to happen.
“But what is unfortunate is that these newspapers have manipulated and played on sentiments causing the relatives to become angry, especially those in Beijing,” the minister added.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/mh370-minister-says-chinese-press-fueled-anger-towards-122400410.html
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HISHAM AND MALAYSIA STOOP TO SELF-PRAISE!
When the whole world has a very low opinion of your mishandling of the whole affair, who else would pat you on the shoulder and say, “Well done!” except you yourself?
*Hasn’t he heard of the saying, “Self praise is no praise”?
*Hasn’t he asked China what they think, if they even trust Malaysia?
China sends envoy to Malaysia to press for answers on flight MH370
China demands satellite data that prompted Malaysian PM to declare jet was ‘lost’, while hundreds protest outside embassy in Beijing
Doesn’t he know what China’s media think?
China’s daily urges Putrajaya to come clean with details on MH370
*Did the families of the passengers applaud Malaysia?
MH370 relatives in scuffle at Malaysia Embassy
Scuffles broke out when uniformed security personnel tried to block some relatives from reaching reporters outside the Malaysian embassy in Beijing.
*AS FOR UNITY, AND EVEN SUPPORT FROM THE OPPOSITION, WHAT ABOUT THIS?
‘Gov’t must apologise over MH370 tragedy’
PAS lawmaker Khalid Samad today pressured the government to issue a formal apology to the families and relatives of the Chinese passengers aboard the missing flight MH370.
(http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2014/03/26/govt-must-apologise-over-mh370-tragedy/)
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The minister called the ongoing operation a “great achievement”, even as Malaysia continues to receive brickbats and deals with unending speculations.
Minister: Malaysia did ‘tremendous job’ with MH370
The Malay Mail Online
KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 ― Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein maintained today that Malaysia has done a “tremendous job” in managing the MH370 disaster despite strong international criticism towards its allegedly slow response to the crisis.
The acting transport minister also denied that it got a “bruising” from the international press and dismissed media suggestions that the government’s substandard response to the situation had damaged Malaysia’s global image.
“To say bruising is a bit harsh because as I said it before this is unprecedented. Anybody that has gone through what we have gone through in these 17 days have indicated to me that we have a done a tremendous job,” the minister told a press conference here.
Hishammuddin noted that it was quite a feat that Malaysia achieved in coordinating such a large multi-national search operation, which currently involves 26 countries and some of the most sophisticated aircraft in existence, to look for the missing Malaysia Airlines-owned Boeing 777-200.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/minister-malaysia-did-tremendous-job-mh370-105600647.html
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Malaysian Government under scrutiny
*Why make crash finding only after 12 days?
A reporter from China had questioned why Malaysia had made such a conclusion only last night although satellite data cited was available since March 12.
To this, the investigation team said there was no intended delay and that time was needed for further corroboration and analysis.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/258178
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*MAS COMES UNDER CRITICISM YET AGAIN: WILL ANYTHING IT DOES BE ACCEPTED AS GOOD AND WISE?
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Free Malaysia Today
‘We wanted families to know first’
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has defended its move to inform family members of the ill-fated MH370 flight via text messages.
SEPANG: Malaysia Airlines (MAS) chief executive officer Ahmad Jauhari Yahya today said family members and relatives of passengers of MH370 were informed of the fate of the jet via text messages because the airline wanted them to know the situation first before the rest of the world.
Ahmad Jauhari said MAS did its level best to ensure the family members were informed of the fate that had befallen on their loved ones.
“Our sole and only motivation last night was to ensure that the families heard the tragic news before the world did in the short time available to us,” he told a crowded media conference in Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) today.
“Wherever possible we did so in person or by telephone, using SMS only as an additional means of ensuring that nearly 1,000 family members heard the news from us and not from the media,” he added.
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2014/03/25/we-wanted-families-to-know-first/
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Matt Young ICYMI: Here’s the text message #MH370 relatives received to confirm the bad news. More: http://bit.ly/1lhFffD pic.twitter.com/l31bebwpH
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Malaysiakini
10:00AM Mar 25, 2014
Backlash over MAS text message to next-of-kin
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has come under fire over its decision to break the bad news on the missing Flight MH370 via text message to family-members of passengers.
The airline said the text message, in both Chinese and English, was sent as “additional” means of contact, after most family-members in Beijing had been contacted by telephone or in person.
However, an image of the text message published by the American and Australian media show very poor translation of the English version into Chinese.
A note at the bottom in the Chinese version states that it is a computer-generated translation.
‘Malaysia Airlines deeply regrets that we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none of those on board survived,” reads the English version.
‘As you will hear in the next hour from Malaysia’s Prime Minister, we must now accept all evidence suggests the plane went down in the Southern Indian Ocean.’
It is unclear why MAS could not get in contact with families in Beijing to break the news in person, as it had been reported those who received the text message were all at the Lido Hotel where they have been staying since the plane was reported missing on March 8.
In Malaysia, families told reporters that they were informed to watch the ‘live’ telecast of Najib’s announcement, which was in English.
It is learnt that a mother of one of the Malaysian passengers was forced to contact a reporter to ask what Najib had announced, as she does not understand English.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/258100
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CONFIRMED! MAS FLIGHT MH370 LOST AT SEA! But where is the evidence?
Najib announces that MH370 is in the south Indian Ocean.
*WILL THIS TURN OUT TO BE ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF MALAYSIA’S INCOMPETENCE?
Video: Malaysian officials the ‘worst I’ve seen’
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CLICK ON ANY LINK FOR THE VIDEO:
*Fmr. NTSB official: Malaysian officials are the ‘worst I’ve seen
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*http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2014/03/12/exp-lead-intv-goelz-search-plane-malaysian-airlines-370.cnn&video_referrer=
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Simon Thong UNCONVINCED, China demands evidence & more information for Najib’s verdict that MH370 crashed into ocean no survivors http://weehingthong.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/%E2%86%90-shrink-player-live-news-conference-on-missing-malaysian-airlines-plane/ …
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“BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!”
*FIRST SIGN THAT HARSH REALITY HAS FINALLY HIT SOMEONE HIGH IN THE MALAYSIA CABINET!
YAHOO! NEWS MALAYSIA
Malaysia halts tourism blitz until MH370 ordeal over, says minister
The Malay Mail Online – 1 hour 54 minutes ago
KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 24 — Malaysia will temporarily stop promoting itself as a tourist destination, especially in China, as a mark of respect for the passengers and crew on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Tourism and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz said today.
It would be hard to formulate a strategy to attract tourists while the plane is still missing, even though Malaysia has declared 2014 as Visit Malaysia Year (VMY) 2014, he said.
“Until then (the plane is found), I have decided to not hold any roadshows especially in China because this issue is very sensitive,” Nazri said in Parliament.
“This is because until we find out the ending to the story of MH370, it will be hard to plan any programmes to attract tourists to our country.”
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/malaysia-halts-tourism-blitz-until-mh370-ordeal-over-102800305.html
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YAHOO! NEWS MALAYSIA
Lessons from MH370 for the world, not just Malaysia, minister says
The Malay Mail Online
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 — As more criticisms rain on Malaysia over its handling of the MH370 crisis, Putrajaya pointed out today that the aircraft’s mysterious disappearance has baffled not just the local aviation industry but international experts.
Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein repeated that the case is “unprecedented”, and said experts from the world over could learn a thing or two from the experience.
“There are so many aspects to this incident that we need to look at. Not only just in Malaysia but the whole aviation industry globally.
“And from my exposure to the experts from around the world, like I said before, we are looking at an unprecedented situation where a lot of people can learn many things… whether about security, the issue of surveillance,” he told the daily press conference on the crisis, held this time at the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC).
But the minister maintained that any improvements to the global aviation industry could only be done at a later date, or at the very least, once MH370 is found.
http://my.news.yahoo.com/lessons-mh370-world-not-just-malaysia-minister-says-105100298.html
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