Malaysia transport minister says more MH370 debris needed to piece together what happened

Record ID: 103692

  • Title: Malaysia transport minister says more MH370 debris needed to piece together what happened
  • Date: 13th May 2016
  • Summary: PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA (MAY 13, 2016) (REUTERS) **** WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **** MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT BUILDING SIGNBOARD READING (English): "MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT" ARRIVAL OF MALAYSIA TRANSPORT MINISTER, LIOW TIONG LAI, IN NEWS BRIEFING ROOM LIOW SITTING REPORTERS SITTING CAMERAMAN (SOUNDBITE) (English) MALAYSIA TRANSPORT MINISTER, LIOW TIONG LAI, SAYING: "I must say that it's important that we find more debris, more wreckage so that we can actually analyse it and find the cause the incident or the accident." REPORTERS LISTENING TO LIOW (SOUNDBITE) (English) MALAYSIA TRANSPORT MINISTER, LIOW TIONG LAI, SAYING: "Let us go through this a hundred and twenty thousand square kilometers area and we will have a meeting sometime in June or July before the end of the search, before the end of hundred and twenty thousand square kilometers search, we're going to organise tripartite meeting between Malaysia, China and Australia to chart the future of this search." PHOTOGRAPHER LIOW SPEAKING TO REPORTERS
  • Embargoed: 28th May 2016 07:22
  • Keywords: Malaysia Airlines MH370 debris search
  • Location: PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA
  • City: PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA
  • Country: Malaysia
  • Topics: Air Accidents,Disaster/Accidents
  • Reuters ID: LVA0014HN4DHJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: The Malaysian transport minister said on Friday (May 13) more MH370 debris needed to be found to determine what happened to the missing aircraft.
    "I must say that it's important that we find more debris, more wreckage so that we can actually analyse it and find the cause the incident or the accident," said Malaysia Transport Minister, Low Tiong Lai.
    Liow said on Thursday (May 12) two pieces of debris discovered in South Africa and the Mauritian island of Rodrigues are almost certainly from the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 jetliner.
    Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board, shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing, in one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.
    Investigators believe someone may have deliberately switched off the plane's transponder before diverting it thousands of miles off course, out over the Indian Ocean.
    The Australian-led underwater search, the most expensive ever conducted, is expected to be completed by the middle of 2016.
    Liow said Malaysia, Australia and China will meet to decide on the future of the search.
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