Showing posts with label Kuala Lumpur. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kuala Lumpur. Show all posts

Saturday, August 1, 2015

Did debris of the ill-fated Malyasia Airlines MH370 reach Reunion Island


#MalayasiaAirlines #MH370 #reunionisland Malayasia Airlines flight MH370 had vanished on March 8, 2014 with 239 passengers and crew onboard as it was on a scheduled flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. There was no trace of the wreckage of any debris till some items have washed up on a beach of the Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
Among the debris found is a bottle of laundry detergent from Jakarta, Indonesia – this lends credence to the theory that these could be from missing Flight MH370.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 31 July 2015.
Earlier, a sea-encrusted section of a plane wing had been found to have washed up on Reunion and it is believed to most certainly be a part of the Boeing 777. This is felt to be a potentially major breakthrough in the search for the missing jet.
Items that have been found on the Saint Andre beach on the western coast of the French island east of Madagascar will be examined by a team of experts who are looking to determine if they came from the plane that has been missing since March 8, 2014 with 239 passengers and crew onboard.
Malaysian investigators will be sending the debris to a French military laboratory near Toulouse -- the hub of Europe's aerospace industry --for examination. The wing part will also be analyzed in special defense facilities that are used for airplane testing and analysis.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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Thursday, December 25, 2014

Russia claims that Ukraine had downed MH17 killing 298 people on board


#MH17 #Ukraine #sukhoi25 The Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 had crashed over Ukraine in July and lives of 298 people was lost in the crash and it was believed that it had been shot down by the Russians. This has been consistently been denied by Russia and now, Russia claims to have unearthed proof that MH17 had actually been shot down by Ukrainian fighter planes.
Russian investigators have now announced that they had new proof from a witness who has not been named. It seem he worked at an airfield in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk where he has claimed to have seen a warplane take off on 17 July with air-to-air missiles and return without them.
In the opinion of the investigative committee, this testimony “is important proof that Ukrainian military was implicated in the crash of the Boeing 777.”
The MH17 “secret witness” has revealed that he worked at the airport on the day the Boeing 777 was downed. As per his statement, he had seen a Sukhoi-25 jet take off armed with air-to-air rockets and return to the base without them.
He has also added that the pilot of the Sukhoi-25 could have launched the missile into the Boeing out of fear or revenge or, probably, he might have mistaken it for another plane.
It may be recalled that MH17 flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over territory in eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian separatists, who have been fighting Kiev forces since April.
Ukraine and the west have been accusing Russia of supplying the rebels with a surface-to-air missile launcher but Russia has issued several opposing theories, one of these is about seeing a Ukrainian military jet flying next to the Boeing.