Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 missing!

SA to assist in searching for debris

GEORGE NEWS - The South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) confirmed that it will continue to provide assistance to Malaysian authorities in terms of collecting and handing over aircraft debris picked up on the South African coastline.

The George Herald and our sister newspaper, the Mossel Bay Advertiser, reported last week on two pieces of debris found on the Little Brak and Wilderness beaches that might possibly be linked to Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 that disappeared over the Indian Ocean on 8 March 2014. The debris has been collected by the SACAA and is being investigated.

Kabelo Ledwaba, spokesperson for the SACAA, said the finds in South Africa have prompted Malaysia to request assistance from South Africa in combing the country’s coastline for possible aircraft debris. "South Africa will provide the necessary assistance, the details of which are yet to be finalised."

The debris might contain remnants of microscopic oceanic organisms that could point investigators to where it had been in the ocean.
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Totally missed this, but was in the local newspaper today and seemingly already published a week ago:
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/authorities-to-evaluate-mh370-debris-2003045
The South African Civil Aviation Authority (Sacaa) has made arrangements to have what could be aircraft debris found on Dolphin Beach, Blouberg, on Tuesday evaluated.
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On Tuesday, Blouberg resident Wendy Coetzer was on her daily walk with her dogs when she came across a toilet looking like it belonged to an aircraft.

“Walking along the beach this morning, I came across this toilet.

“Having read the article in the weekend newspaper about a piece of debris from the ill- fated MH(370) flight found near Mossel Bay, it crossed my mind it may have a connection,” she said.

Coetzer said she had been contacted by Sacaa and was informed the toilet will be safeguarded by the NSRI.
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NarrowBandFtw said:
Totally missed this, but was in the local newspaper today and seemingly already published a week ago:
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/authorities-to-evaluate-mh370-debris-2003045
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Also missed that. Makes me think - there are several places along the Peninsula coast that are depositional. Huge amounts of jetsam (pun not intended) washes up because of the currents. The Agulhas current down the SA east coast must be bringing the debris, which would then get snared (some of it anyway) by random inshore currents.

Fascinated about the toilet though. I suppose it is plastic so would have a level of buoyancy.
 
Debris confirmed from flight MH370

Durban - A KwaZulu-Natal teenager who found a part of the Boeing 777, flight MH370 while on holiday in Mozambique, is thrilled his piece has confirmed to have been from the plane that went missing in March 2014.

In a technical examination report released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau this week, the findings revealed that the two parts were “almost certainly from the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft”.
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More at:http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/debris-confirmed-from-flight-mh370-2013695
 
Mossel Bay debris part of MH370 engine cowling

Two more pieces of debris were all but confirmed Thursday to be from flight MH370, adding fresh clues to the mystery of the Malaysia Airlines plane which is presumed to have crashed at sea.

The fragments washed up on beaches in South Africa and Mauritius in March and brought to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau's laboratories for testing.

After an expert examination they were found to have “almost certainly” come from the fated Boeing 777 aircraft, which vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board.
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More at:http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/mossel-bay-debris-part-of-mh370-engine-cowling-2021112
 
Authorities to conclude MH370 search

Sydney - The search for missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 is expected to draw to an end in July or August, officials said on Wednesday, as the southern winter is set to slow its final stages.

“Winter weather conditions continue to bring rough seas and strong winds to the search area, impacting on operations,” the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) said in a weekly update.

One wave was measured at more than 18 metres, it said.

One ship has been on standby north of the search area, while the other has been unable to undertake deep tow search activities for the past three weeks, the centre said.

“It is now anticipated it may take until around July/August to complete the 120 000 square kilometres, but this will be influenced by weather conditions over the winter months.”
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More at:http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/authorities-to-conclude-mh370-search-2028998
 
MH370: Blaine Gibson's one-man search for answers

In March 2014, Blaine Gibson was sitting in the living room of his childhood home, surrounded by memories.

He had held on to the small house in Carmel, California for eight years after his mother passed away, visiting occasionally from Seattle to comb through the artefacts of their family life.

Now he had finally arranged to sell the house and this was to be his last visit. With boxes of pictures and documents to sort through, daytime TV became his constant companion.
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More at:http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36498547
 
Mr Gibson says his search for the wreckage fits in well with his love of travelling and his ambition to visit every country (current count - 177)
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How does he fund this seemingly full time travel hobby?!? Teach me Obi-Wan!
 
MH370: Search for missing plane to be suspended not shut down

The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will be suspended rather than shut down if the plane is not found in the current search area, officials say.

China, Malaysia and Australia had previously agreed to end the search in the southern Indian Ocean if no "credible new information" was found.

The plane, with 239 passengers and crew, disappeared in March 2014.

Many of their relatives have long pleaded with authorities for the search to continue until the plane is found.

The announcement came after a meeting of ministers from the three countries in Malaysia in which they acknowledged that with less than 10,000 square kilometres of the search area remaining "the likelihood of finding the aircraft is fading".
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More at: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36863527
 
MH370 'must not go into oblivion', says pilot's sister

Sakinab Shah doesn't give many interviews.

She's wary, because her brother was Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the man flying MH370 on the night it vanished more than two years ago.

"I've got to lend him a voice. He's gone. If I don't talk on his behalf, if I don't portray him as the real person that he was, nobody will be any the wiser."

Captain Shah was an experienced pilot with an unblemished record, yet after the Malaysian government said that the plane's disappearance was deliberate, some fingers began pointing at the skipper in the cockpit.
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More at: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36761491
 
Tanzania debris 'is from flight MH370'

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia said on Thursday that a large piece of aircraft debris discovered on the island of Pemba, off the coast of Tanzania, in June, was from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370.

A search of more than two years has turned up few traces of the Boeing 777 aircraft that disappeared in March 2014, with 239 passengers and crew on board, soon after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, bound for Beijing.
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More at: http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/tanzania-debris-is-from-flight-mh370-2068617
 
Wing part found in Mauritius from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

Authorities have confirmed debris found on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius came from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

The piece of a wing flap was found in May and analysed by experts at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB).

The team has been spearheading the search for the plane in a remote stretch of the sea off Australia's west coast.

The plane went missing on 8 March, 2014, with 239 passengers and crew on board soon after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, bound for Beijing.

Investigators used a part number found on the debris to link it to the missing Boeing 777, the ATSB said in a statement.

It added another "unique work order number" assigned by the flap manufacturer corresponded to MH370.

The identification was also confirmed by Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai.
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More at: http://news.sky.com/story/debris-in-mauritius-from-malaysia-airlines-plane-10608046
 
MH370 families urge residents of African coast to join debris search

People whose loved ones disappeared on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have appealed to residents on the east African coast to search for plane debris and hand in anything they find to the authorities.

Ghislain Wattrelos, who lost his wife and two teenage children on the plane, said more debris could help determine what happened, more than 1,000 days after the flight disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

“It can tell us is there was a fire, if there are traces of explosive,” Wattrelos told a news conference in Antananarivo, the capital of the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar where some debris has washed up.

"The more debris we have, the more we can recreate, looking at the wind and currents, where the plane crashed.”

Families have accused Malaysian-led investigators of focusing too much on the deep-sea search for wreckage off the coast of Australia.

The visit by seven relatives to Madagascar, where almost half of the more than 30 pieces thought to be from the plane have been found, prompted the Malaysian investigators to follow them to the Indian Ocean island to collect the latest items.
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More at: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysia-airlines-mh-idUSKBN13U1SS
 
Final sweep for MH370 sea search

Sydney - The last vessel searching for missing MH370 has left on its final sweep across the southern Indian Ocean, Australia said on Wednesday, as the transport minister cautioned the airliner might not be found in coming weeks.

Fugro Equator sailed from Fremantle port on Australia's western coast on Monday for the 120 000km² zone where investigators believe the Malaysian Airlines jet disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 2014, carrying 239 passengers and crew.

No trace has been found in the massive undersea hunt off Australia, but investigators have confirmed that three pieces of debris recovered on western Indian Ocean shorelines came from MH370.

"It has been an heroic undertaking but we have to prepare ourselves for the prospect that we may not find MH370 in the coming weeks, although we remain hopeful," Transport Minister Darren Chester told The West Australian Tuesday.

The newspaper added that the ship's final hunt would involve examining about 200 small areas which were either too deep for previous sweeps or were not properly examined due to poor sonar readings.

The government agency leading the search, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), said on Wednesday that the Equator's mission was expected to draw to a close next month.
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More at: http://www.news24.com/World/News/final-sweep-for-mh370-sea-search-20161214
 
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