THE fruitless search for the missing Malaysian Airlines jet might have to start all over again from scratch if no clues to its fate are found in coming days, it was claimed yesterday.
The international team searching the Indian Ocean for the Boeing 777 were considering the seemingly impossible scenario of the aircraft having “landed” somewhere, instead of crashing in the southern Indian Ocean.
“We may have to regroup soon to look into this possibility if no positive results come back in the next few days,” sources within the International Investigation Team were quoted as telling the New Straits Times yesterday.
“However, the possibility of a specific country hiding the plane when more than 20 nations are searching for it, seems absurd,” said the sources.
But they admitted that it was difficult to determine if the plane had really ended in the Indian Ocean, despite calculations seeming to point to that direction.
The source added that the international team was looking at adding more ships and aircraft to the existing search area in the Indian Ocean — as well as widening the area because there were fears that searchers had been “looking for the plane in the wrong place.”
With the search now into its 45th day, Malaysian authorities are hoping more countries will come forward to share their crucial satellite and radar data.
The paper said it understood that the team had not been receiving as much information from countries as it had hoped.(SD-Agencies)
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