KUALA LUMPUR, May 2 — Nothing has so far been found in the Bay of Bengal, with regard to a report by an Australian exploration company that it might have located the wreckage of the missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370 aircraft.
Joint Action Coordination Centre (JACC) Chief Coordinator Angus Houston said currently, three Bangladeshi navy ships were scouring the area, with one of the ships equipped with echo sound capability to assist in ensuring a thorough search in that particular area.
“But I will say very quickly that I have the heaviest weight put on all the evidence that is before us, the great work that the world team here in Kuala Lumpur has found, the analysis of the manual handshakes between the aircraft and the satellite.
“And also, the stimulation work has been done to define the area in the southern Indian Ocean. I’m confident the area in the southern (Indian) ocean is the right search area and I’m sure that in time, we will find the aircraft in that area of the Indian Ocean,” he said.
Houston said this at a joint press conference with Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein and president of the French Aviation Accident Investigation Bureau (and previous head of the Air France 447 investigation team) Jean-Paul Troadec, Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin and Deputy Defence Minister Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakri. — Bernama
