MH370 report still not final

PUTRAJAYA -- The Safety Investigation Report on missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 released today is not the final report, said the head of the Malaysia ICAO Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team, Datuk Kok Soo Chon.

Kok said the 449-page Safety Investigation Report was only on the safety investigation and it is separate from search and judicial investigations.

"This is not the final report. It would be too presumptious of us to say that this is a final report since the wreckage has not been found nor victims found, how could we call it a final report.

"The answer can only be conclusive if the wreckage is found," he told a media briefing on the Safety Investigation Report on MH370 at the Transport Ministry here today.

He added that the report could help prevent air accidents and incidents in future and that it was not the purpose of this activity to apportion blame or liability.

The Boeing 777-200ER left Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12.40 am on March 8, 2014, en route to Beijing and disappeared from radar an hour later.

Kok denied the team delayed in releasing the report sooner, saying the report had to be put on hold due to continued search for the jetliner.

The underwater search of MH370 started in May 2014 and it was called off in January last year, which almost spanned three years pending new credible evidence after an underwater sweep of 120,000 sq km of the southern Indian Ocean proved futile.

In January, United States-based seabed exploration company, Ocean Infinity Limited began a new search and it was based on ?no cure, no fee' which meant that payment would only be made when the debris of the missing jetliner were found and confirmed by a third party.

On May 29, Ocean Infinity confirmed that its search for the wreckage of MH370 had come to an end. Its search proved unsuccessful.

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