KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 ― Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said he finds it “strange” that despite the assistance of modern technology, the 26-nation hunt for MH370 has failed to turn up a single sign of the missing aircraft even after nearly 11 days of searching.
At a roundtable discussion with five economic experts from America, United Kingdom and China yesterday, the country’s longest serving former prime minister reportedly pointed out that modern technology today is so advanced that it could even track the movements of individuals.
“I see the search and rescue's progress strange, despite advanced technology which can track a human even though they stand on the roadside, yet they failed to detect the aircraft” Dr Mahathir was quoted as saying in a Berita Harian report.
He added that the satellites of major countries should have detected some debris if the plane had crashed at sea or land.
Rescue operators continued their daunting search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 today, 11 days after the wide-body Boeing 777 aircraft mysteriously disappeared off civilian radar on March 8.
To date, 26 nations are scouring vast expanses of land and sea at both the northern and southern corridors identified as the two possible locations where MH370 may have gone down, either by landing or by crashing.
This is the longest period in aviation history that a passenger aircraft has been missing. The last incident occurred seven years ago when Adam Air flight 574 disappeared off Indonesia’s Sulawesi islands in the south. Debris from the Boeing 737-400 was only discovered 10 days later.
Despite numerous leads that have emerged to indicate that MH370 had been “deliberately” veered off its original flight path, it has not been determined if the aircraft had been taken by force by hijackers or terrorists.
