SHAH ALAM, 4 Apr: The Opposition Leader, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, said that the Barisan Nasional (BN) Government is ‘concealing’ information on the mysterious disappearance of the MH370 aircraft which has failed to be detected by radars since 8 March.
In an interview with The Telegraph UK, Anwar was quoted saying that there are missing bits of information critical to our understanding of this mysterious disappearance of MH370.
“I believe the government knows more than us. They have the authority to instruct the air force … or Malaysia Airlines,” he said.
Anwar said that the radar system purchased when he was Deputy Prime Minister in 1994 is capable of detecting MH370 when it turned back and flew across Peninsular Malaysia.
“It is not only unacceptable but not possible, not feasible that the plane had not been sighted by the Marconi radar system immediately after it changed course,” he said.
The radar, he said, would have instantly detected the Boeing 777 as it travelled east to west across “at least four” Malaysian provinces.
He also criticised the government for not acting quickly in the early stages by letting Vietnam and China carry out search operations in a place that they know fairly well cannot be the site of the plane.
He said the families of the 153 Chinese victims on board were right to demand information from the Malaysian government, which had permitted a multi-national search operation to spend a week searching in what it must have known was the wrong place.
Meanwhile, international media, CNN, quoted an unnamed source who said that the JACC Chief, Angus Houston, will hold a press conference later today on the ‘big’ news related to the search operation, but it is unclear about what is to be announced.
At present, several countries are involved in the search for MH370, led by Australia, including Malaysia, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand.
