Malaysia may reopen the investigation into flight MH370

He Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said this Monday in the Australian city of Melbourne that his country is willing to reopen the investigation into Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, whose disappearance on March 8 marks 10 years, if there is a “convincing case”.

“If there is a compelling case to be reopened, we are happy to reopen it,” Anwar told a news conference in the city of Melbourne, where he is attending a special summit. Australia-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations).

“It’s an issue that affects people’s lives and whatever has to be done, has to be done,” the Malaysian president said of the disappearance of a plane believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean with 239 people on board on March 8, 2014.

On its part, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanesehe expressed the “deep regret” of his country, which along with Malaysia and China financed one of the searches for MH370, that this plane was not found.

Disappearance Boeing 777 of Malaysia Airlines, considered “the greatest aviation mystery of all time”, has been explained through a variety of unproven hypotheses ranging from a probable crash in the Indian Ocean due to technical failure to a possible induced crash. pilot.

After two search operations in the Indian Ocean, the last in 2018, many relatives continue to demand that the search be reopened.

On board were 153 Chinese, 50 Malaysians (12 were part of the crew), seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four French, three Americans, two New Zealanders, two Ukrainians, two Canadians, one Russian, one Dutch, one Taiwanese and two Iranians.

He flight MH370 It disappeared 40 minutes after taking off from Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing, when someone in the cockpit manually switched off the communications system and the transponder signal was lost while leaving Malaysian airspace and entering Vietnamese airspace.

Shortly thereafter, the aircraft changed course manually – not mechanically or on autopilot – turning sharply left and heading back southwest over Peninsular Malaysia, then turning again and finally leaving the radar zone.

According to the official investigation, the plane flew for about 6 more hours towards the Indian Ocean until it allegedly ran out of fuel and fell into the water, somewhere in the ocean.