Renewed search for MH370 begins, confirms Loke

The Star

Transport Minister Anthony Loke has confirmed that the renewed search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) has begun.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/836cp2rp   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

Transcript

00:00Good afternoon, well first of all I welcome the proactiveness of Ocean Infinity to deploy their

00:06ships to that area to begin the search. This is a positive news for the next of kins, most of them

00:15are looking forward for the search to resume. And secondly of course right now we are still

00:20finalizing our contracts, we just got the credits from the AG Chambers. There are some changes need

00:27to be made in terms of the terms and conditions and all that, so we are still finalizing the

00:33details and for the contract to be signed. So as I mentioned, since Ocean Infinity already starts

00:39to mobilize their ships, of course we welcome it because we have given the principal approval

00:45for the search to resume and just need to finalize the contract right now to be signed.

00:51So of course that will be followed up by Ministry of Transport. And you always said you would resume

00:57the search if there was compelling new evidence. What do you feel changed that made you decide to

01:02go ahead with this? Well Ocean Infinity has given us that number one, they combined all the findings

01:08from the various experts, various researchers, they've combined all the data, then they felt

01:14they're very confident that the current search area is more credible because they have covered

01:20a large area previously and this is the area that they've missed in the past. So that they're

01:24confident this area will come back with a positive result and they've convinced us that

01:30they are ready to take the risk and to resume the search. That's why the Malaysian government is

01:36proceeding with it. How do you feel this time about the search? Do you think that this time

01:43Well we do not want to assume anything right now. So as I said, Ocean Infinity

01:52is a professional company. We hope that of course they will, I'm sure they will do their best

01:59for the search and I'm sure everyone is equally concerned and equally wants the search to

02:08to be positive. I mean to find the plane and hopefully that this will give some answers

02:16to the next of kin, not only to the families but also to the aviation industry in the whole world

02:24because this is the biggest mystery in the history of aviation.

Category

Transcript

Recommended