KUALA LUMPUR, May 27 — The families of passengers on board Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370 aircraft which went missing on March 8 have requested MAS to explain the satellite report issued by Inmarsat of United Kingdom today.

Selamat Omar, 60, father of passenger Mohd Khairul Amri said he received an e-mail and a telephone call from MAS at about 9.30am on the data.

“From the e-mail received, I found the data released were the same as found in the search and rescue operation.

“There were nothing detected which could be made as guide or any latest information from the e-mail,” he said when contacted by Bernama.

Meanwhile, S.Thenmoli, 26, the younger sister of S.Puspanathan confirmed they did not receive any latest information from MAS.

“To date, I did not receive any latest information since the last briefing in April.

“I was also unaware that the satellite data report will be distributed to the affected families today,” she said.

The Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) today issued the 45-page unprocessed satellite data used to detect the flight pattern of the missing MH370 jetliner.

In a statement, DCA said the communication log data from Inmarsat, a British satellite communications company and the information were issued to enable readers understand the data.

According to the statement, the log data was attached with a supplementary note of the Signal Unit Log for MH370 provided by Inmarsat.  

Flight MH370 with 239 passengers and crew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing vanished from the radar screen while flying in the South China Sea on March 8 after taking off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12.41 am.

The Boeing 777-200ER aircraft should have landed in Beijing at 6.30 am on the same day.

Operation to search the ill-fated plane, involving the assistance of several countries, was initially launched in the South China Sea and later moved to the Indian Ocean when the aircraft was said to have veered from its original route.

Upon an analysis of the satellite data which showed the last position of the jetliner to be in the Indian Ocean, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced on March 25 that the flight MH370 ‘ended’ in south Indian Ocean. — Bernama