BALTIMORE, Maryland May 2, 2014 - Principles in the continuing search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, lost on March 8 with 239 people aboard, will meet Monday in Canberra, Australia to work out details of the search going forward. Representatives of Malaysia, Australia and China, as well as other interested parties will discuss the use of more and better deep sea mapping equipment, the sharing of costs, and the support being given the families of those missing on the jet, which lost contact with air traffic controllers about 42 minutes into a scheduled flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China that began at about 12:30 pm local time.
The respected Aviation Blog, Plane Talking, authored by veteran reporter and air enthusist Ben Sandilands, has been on top of this story from the start from his post in Australia. The Media Site "Crikey" carries the blog. This is the web site: http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2014/05/02/mh370-china-malaysia-australia-in-talks-this-monday-in-canberra/
Mr. Sandilands calls the negotiations set for Monday "tripartite talks," because of the identities of the three main parties. He reports that a media briefing on Friday saw the acting Malaysia transport Minister and Defence Minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, briefly lose his temper when questioned about an Australian Company which apparently pulled a publicity stunt last week by reporting that it had found the missing jet in the Bay of Bengal, off of the Indian Coast. The company, GeoResonance, claimed many credentials and successes that reporters have been unable to verify. Initially, its claim seemed to have enough credence that officials were forced to detail resources to search the area where the jet was supposed to be. Nothing was found, although ships attached to the Bangladesh Navy continue to patrol the area. Mr. Hussein blasted the company because its claims have cost the search team time and money. There are more details about the incident in Mr. Sandilands Friday column.
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