Family of missing Malaysian Airlines Captain Zaharie Shah from flight MH370 pay tribute to him. Courtesy: Chumguan Phoon/YouTube
In the shadows ... Malaysian children are silhouetted as they watch a Malaysia Airlines plane taxi on the runway at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Source: AFP
THE massive search for missing flight MH370 will today be expanded into areas of the the Southern Indian Ocean off Western Australia.
The initial search is planned to occur in daylight in the Southern Indian Ocean west of Perth, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said.
An Australian Defence Force aircraft is being relocated from the Cocos Islands to Perth for the operation and will operate out of Royal Australian Air Force Base Pearce, near Perth.
Australia already had two AP-3C Orion aircraft search, one of them looking north and west of the remote Cocos Islands.
AMSA and the ADF will look into the possibility of adding more aircraft capable of operating at long distances to the search.
"Australia will do its duty in this matter," Prime Minister Tony Abbott told parliament yesterday. "We will do our duty to the families of the 230 people on that aircraft who are still absolutely devastated by their absence, and who are still profoundly, profoundly saddened by this as yet unfathomed mystery."
On the hunt ... Australian Orion aircraft have already been involved in the search. Source: News Corp Australia
CO-PILOT SPOKE MH370'S LAST WORDS
The last words from MH370 to air traffic control — "all right good night" were spoken by the missing jetliner's co-pilot.
Authorities in Kuala Lumpur revealed that the words, said to Malaysian air traffic control at 1.19am on March 8, were those of 27-year-old Fariq Abdul Hamid.
Until now it was not known who last spoke on the airwaves. Those words came after one of the plane's communications system was shut down.
Authorities also revealed that after the missing Boeing 777-200's last communication with a satellite, at 8.11am, that it had only about 30 minutes worth of fuel left.
However, that satellite ping cannot be narrowed down to anything smaller than a massive area covering 11 countries in two different corridors stretching from the Caspian Sea to the southern Indian Ocean.
Signing off ... co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid (right) spoke is believed to have spoken the last words to authorities on the ground. Picture: A Current Affair. Source: Supplied
Australia is now leading a section of the search in the southern corridor of the Indian Ocean using PC Orions and a Hercules C130.
Malaysian Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said investigations had revealed that it was the co-pilot's voice which spoke the last words before the plane vanished.
"The initial investigation indicates it was the co-pilot who basically spoke the last time, it was recorded on tape," Mr Yahya said.
Twelve minutes before the co-pilot's last words were spoken the ACARS, or aircraft reporting system, made its last automatic transmission at 1.07am. Authorities say they are not sure exactly when it was turned off as it only transmitted every minutes.
Expansive search ... Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein shows maps of northern search corridor. Source: AP
Until now much of the focus had been on the pilot, Zaharie Ahamd Shah. Police visited the pilot and co-pilot's homes the day after the plane disappeared and again on the weekend, when they seized a homemade flight simulator from Capt Shah's home. Police are still analysing it and said yesterday there was nothing to reveal yet.
Asked if authorities were looking into the possibility of pilot or co-pilot suicide, Defence Minister Hussein would say only the answer is "yes".
Ten days after MH370 went missing midway between Malaysia and Vietnam there was no evidence whatsoever that any of the 239 passengers and crew on board had tried to use their mobile telephones to make calls or send text messages.
"So far we have not had any evidence from any telephone company of any member trying to contact but …. We are still checking. There are millions of records they have to process," Mr Hussein said.
He said this was a part of the massive multinational investigation that was still being done.
And he expressed that despite the silence from the plane and the fact that nothing has been found so far, there was always hope.
"The fact there are no distress signals, there are no ransom, there are no parties screaming to be responsible, there is always hope," Mr Hussein said.
And he revealed that only hours earlier he had asked Chinese intelligence agencies to re-intensify their checks of everyone on their passenger list.
The world awaits answers ... a performer poses in front of messages expressing prayers and well-wishes for passengers on board missing flight MH370. Source: AFP
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