– Ultra long-range jets search seas –
Two ultra long-range commercial jets being used on Saturday can stay in the area for five hours.
“With any luck we’ll find something shortly,” said Australian Flight Lieutenant Russell Adams.
As it enters its third week, the search for MH370 has become one of the longest – and certainly largest – in modern aviation history.
No confirmed wreckage was ever found of a Korean Air jetliner that exploded in mid air over the Andaman Sea in 1987 as the result of a bomb placed on board by North Korean agents.
Expectations based on advances in technology, coupled with the modern era’s relentless 24-hour media coverage, would seem to rule out public acceptance of the idea that MH370 will never be found. READ: Criminal probe under way in Malaysia plane drama.
“This is going to be a long-haul effort,” Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Friday.
Scott Hamilton, managing director of US-based aviation consultancy Leeham Co., said the investigation would simply continue for as long as it takes.
“This is, in all probability, a criminal act, and thereby presumed murder of more than 230 people,” Hamilton said.
“Worse, if this is some kind of terror event that is a precursor to something bigger in the future, authorities will presumably do all they can to make this determination and work to prevent it — whatever ‘it’ is,” he added.
Malaysia has asked the FBI to help recover data it said was deleted from a home flight simulator belonging to the plane’s chief pilot, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, but otherwise no evidence has emerged to implicate him.
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