Yesterday afternoon, Lieutenant General Ackbal Samad, the commander of the Royal Malaysian Air Force, admitted at a family communication meeting that the Malaysian side had delayed announcing the time of the plane's return. He also agreed with the family's view that "it is too early to say it crashed now." This morning, about 50 family members flew from Beijing to Kuala Lumpur.

The speed of the missing plane was faster than the estimated value

According to what Lieutenant General Ackbal said the day before, in the search and rescue and investigation of the missing MH370 flight, the International Maritime Satellite Organization used a new analysis method. To verify the accuracy, after estimating the other 6 Boeing 777 aircraft, it was believed that the prediction of this model was relatively consistent. But yesterday, some family members believed that the difference of 1,100 nautical miles between the search and rescue range on the 27th and the 28th may just indicate that there is an error in the method. "So Prime Minister Najib's announcement on the evening of the 24th that the plane crashed into the sea was simply an irresponsible conclusion made with an insufficient theory," said the family representative. They asked Najib to retract his speech that day and apologize for it. As soon as the voice fell, the audience burst into applause.

Lieutenant General Ackbal explained that the search and rescue area was shifted 1,100 nautical miles to the northeast by Australian officials on the morning of the 28th. The most critical information being analyzed includes ground radar, ACARS and other related data based on the plane's flight between the South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca before it completely disappeared from the radar system, as well as detailed information provided by Boeing and other departments. "They show that the plane was flying faster than we estimated when it lost contact, resulting in higher fuel consumption, reducing the possibility of it flying south, especially to the farthest distance in the southern Indian Ocean." As of now, no suspected objects related to MH370 have been salvaged.

Concealing the information of the return flight did not affect the search and rescue

As to why the Malaysian side concealed the return flight, Lieutenant General Ackbal said: "The announcement of the return flight was delayed, and I admit this." He said that the reason for doing so was that it took time to calibrate data with neighboring countries and for the government to consider publishing information involving national security. At the same time, he reiterated that "although sensitive information was not given to the public in a timely manner, the search and rescue was launched at the first time and was not affected." As for the centralized analysis of the three important materials of Doppler, radar map and ACARS data, the high-level technical team is not qualified to conduct it, and will assist in arranging for experts to have further contact with the relevant family members in Kuala Lumpur.

At the end of the meeting, members of the group introduced that the Boeing 777 aircraft has four emergency locator transmitters, which can send out distress signals when hit or flooded and release them through radio, and ships and aircraft in a certain area can receive the signals. But why a large number of aircraft and ships have not received any signals so far is what the current investigators are eager to know.

The family representative then asked again: "Since no distress signal was received from MH370 and there is no other evidence, is it too early to say that the plane crashed?" Lieutenant General Ackbal agreed.

Beijing Morning Post reporter learned that as of 7 pm last night, about 50 family members had registered to go to Kuala Lumpur, and the flight was scheduled to take off at 1:30 am today. Regarding the request for family members to stay in the same hotel, the Malaysian side promised that it would be done after Monday.

Promise

Malaysia: Continue to search for possible survivors

Morning Post reported that yesterday, Malaysia's Acting Minister of Transport Hishammuddin met with the families of some passengers and crew members of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight. Hishammuddin said that the Malaysian government confirmed that the search and rescue would continue to look for "possible survivors." However, he also said that the families should not be given "false hope." The Malaysian side said that six satellites had found objects in the search area and the search was still continuing.

Whether there is still hope for the passengers to survive is the key issue that the families hope the Malaysian side will clarify. At yesterday's family meeting, Hishammuddin said that no matter how remote the search and rescue area is, the Malaysian side has faith and will continue to search for possible survivors. He promised that as long as there are survivors, they will do their best to search and rescue. But he also said that they cannot give the families "false hope".

Previously, the police unlocked and recovered the data of the flight simulator in the captain's home. In this regard, Hishammuddin said that as of now, the captain's flight simulator has not made any discoveries, but the final announcement of the results will be made by the Malaysian Chief of Police who is in charge of the investigation.

Search

China discovers three suspected white, red and orange objects

Morning Post reported that as of noon yesterday, a total of 10 Chinese ships were searching in the north and south directions of the suspected point. China's Maritime Search and Rescue Center has coordinated 60 passing merchant ships to search about 141,000 square kilometers in the waters west of Indonesia and Australia, and coordinated 20 fishing boats operating in the central Indian Ocean to assist in the search, but no suspicious situation was found.

Yesterday morning, the crew of the Chinese Air Force Il-76 found three suspected floating objects in white, red and orange in the search area newly determined by the Australian side.

The aircraft found three suspected floating objects in succession within a radius of 15 kilometers in the sea area centered at 28 degrees 15 minutes south latitude and 94 degrees 44 minutes east longitude from an altitude of 300 meters. Subsequently, the Il-76 crew dropped two daytime marker bombs into the relevant area.

The "Haixun 01" ship responsible for the search arrived at the scene at 14:30 Beijing time, and helicopters and ship-borne boats searched simultaneously. Two floating objects were found and salvaged in the afternoon. One was a buoy, but it was not a marker dropped by the Air Force because a large number of marine life had settled on its surface. The other was an orange-yellow marine life, suspected to be a jellyfish corpse. Captain Jiang Long said that from the time it arrived at the suspected waters last night to this afternoon, the "Haixun 01" ship salvaged a number of floating objects, including a plastic bag salvaged in the early morning of the 29th, which was later preliminarily determined to be a detergent powder packaging bag. In addition, the Chinese Navy's Jinggangshan ship carrying two helicopters arrived in the South Indian Ocean at 7 o'clock yesterday to continue the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. 11 small objects found in New Zealand Morning Post News: Major General Kevin Short of the Royal New Zealand Air Force said yesterday that the New Zealand Air Force P3 "Orion" patrol aircraft carrying out the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the South Indian Ocean witnessed 11 rectangular suspected objects on the 28th.

Short said at a press conference in Wellington that day that these suspected objects were found in the sea 1,600 kilometers west of Perth, Australia. Each object is less than 1 meter long, and some are even less than 50 centimeters.

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