MH370: "A mais difícil busca da História"

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (photo)said on Thursday that the ongoing search for missing Malaysian flight MH370 is "the most difficult in human history," while reiterating his promise to the families of those on aboard that his country will continue the current search process as best as they can. In a joint press conference with his visiting Malaysian counterpart, Abbott told reporters this is probably the most difficult search ever undertaken, but "as far as Australia is concerned, we are throwing everything we have" to search the aircraft. "This is a very tough time for Prime Minister Najib (Razak)... the search area is moving north, but it's still a remote and inaccessible area...it's the most difficult in human history," said the Australian leader. He also asked the families of those on aboard to be "patient," saying Australia and the multinational forces will not let them down and would provide the warmest possible welcome if they want to come to Australia. Cause of missing Malaysia plane may never be known - national police chief The investigation into what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may take a long time and may never determine the cause of the tragedy, Malaysia's national police chief warned Wednesday. The assessment by Malaysian and Australian officials underscored the lack of knowledge authorities have about what happened on Flight 370. It also points to a scenario that becomes more likely with every passing day — that the fate of the Boeing 777 and the 239 people on board might remain a mystery forever. The plane disappeared March 8 on a flight to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur after its transponders, which make the plane visible to commercial radar, were shut off. Military radar picked up the jet just under an hour later, on the other side of the Malay peninsula. Authorities say until then its "movements were consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane" but have not ruled out anything, including mechanical error. Malaysia releases full transcript of radio communications between pilots of missing plane On Tuesday, Malaysia released the full transcript of radio communications between the pilots of Flight 370 and air traffic controllers and confirmed that there was nothing out of the ordinary before the plane disappeared last month. The government said that international investigators and Malaysian authorities still believe that the plane was flown off-course on purpose in the early hours of 8 March with 239 passengers on board. The possibility that the mystery of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane will never be resolved is growing, as the search in the southern parts of the Indian Ocean continues to bring no result. On Tuesday, ten planes and nine ships searched about 46,000 square miles of ocean west of the Australian city of Perth. Their hunt kept shifting on the basis of new calculations about the plane's likely path, satellite evidence and ocean currents. Australian officials said that the ships battled heavy seas and strong winds. The search crews finished the day without finding evidence of the plane. In the Malaysian capital the transcript of the pilots' last communications with air traffic control was released. The transcript reinforces the impression that everything in the cockpit was normal. But just as the plane was due to enter Vietnamese airspace, the aircraft's transponder stopped transmitting its location. Soon afterward, the plane made an unscheduled sharp left turn, away from its planned flight path to Beijing and back toward the Malay Peninsula. The international investigation team and the Malaysian government remain of the opinion that, until the point at which it met military primary radar coverage, the plane's movements were consistent with deliberate action by someone on board. The international team is set on unravelling the mystery. But the batteries in the black box are expected to expire about 30 days after the plane went down. When those batteries die, without an indication of where the plane might have crashed, it will be next to impossible to find the debris in the deep vastness of the Indian Ocean, experts say. Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news