Relatives of passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 assailed the Malaysian government over its investigation, as a search of the southern Indian Ocean seabed continued after a week to yield no trace of the missing jet.
Sara Bacj, an American whose partner, Philip Wood, was aboard the plane, sent an email to the media in the name of The United Families of MH370 objecting to the possibility that the government could issue death certificates and attempt to settle on compensation before the plane is found.
The email also criticized Malaysia for not seeking an independent scientific review of the technical analysis that led the search to focus on the current area. Conducted by the satellite company Inmarsat and the international investigative team, the analysis concluded that the flight--en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing--went radically off course, ending in the Indian Ocean about 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) northwest of Perth, Australia.
"WE ARE IN UTTER OUTRAGE, DESPAIR AND SHOCK!" the email concluded.
The families' statement came as an unmanned underwater vehicle neared the end of its initial search of the area believed by officials to be the most likely resting place of the Boeing 777, which disappeared March 8 with 239 aboard. Australian officials coordinating the multinational search effort said Monday that the U.S. Navy's Bluefin-21 submersible has searched about two-thirds of the area where searchers earlier detected pings believed to have come from the jet's "black box" flight recorders.
It has yet to find any sign of the plane.
Officials have said they expect the Bluefin to complete its initial search of the seabed as early as Wednesday. No decision has yet been made about the next step if the wreckage isn't found in the area, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre told The Wall Street Journal late Sunday in response to emailed questions.
21/04/14 Richard C. Paddock and Lucy Craymer/Wall Street Journal
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Sara Bacj, an American whose partner, Philip Wood, was aboard the plane, sent an email to the media in the name of The United Families of MH370 objecting to the possibility that the government could issue death certificates and attempt to settle on compensation before the plane is found.
The email also criticized Malaysia for not seeking an independent scientific review of the technical analysis that led the search to focus on the current area. Conducted by the satellite company Inmarsat and the international investigative team, the analysis concluded that the flight--en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing--went radically off course, ending in the Indian Ocean about 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) northwest of Perth, Australia.
"WE ARE IN UTTER OUTRAGE, DESPAIR AND SHOCK!" the email concluded.
The families' statement came as an unmanned underwater vehicle neared the end of its initial search of the area believed by officials to be the most likely resting place of the Boeing 777, which disappeared March 8 with 239 aboard. Australian officials coordinating the multinational search effort said Monday that the U.S. Navy's Bluefin-21 submersible has searched about two-thirds of the area where searchers earlier detected pings believed to have come from the jet's "black box" flight recorders.
It has yet to find any sign of the plane.
Officials have said they expect the Bluefin to complete its initial search of the seabed as early as Wednesday. No decision has yet been made about the next step if the wreckage isn't found in the area, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre told The Wall Street Journal late Sunday in response to emailed questions.
21/04/14 Richard C. Paddock and Lucy Craymer/Wall Street Journal
