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2ND LEAD: Sightings buoy search hopes for Malaysian plane
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 29 - 03 - 2014

Ships were steaming to a new search area Saturday to
hunt debris from a Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared three weeks
ago shortly after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur, according to dpa.
A device to help locate the flight recorders was on an Australian
ship and en route to join five other vessels in the search area.
Five of the 10 planes that left Perth on Friday spotted what could be
remnants of the Boeing 777-200. They were the first sightings since
the search shifted more than 1,000 kilometres north to a region 1,680
kilometres west of Perth.
The search was moved after data analysts said the plane was
travelling faster than first thought and so would have run out of
fuel sooner, meaning any debris would likely be further north.
With the hunt now centred nearer to Perth, planes can search for
longer over waters that are calmer and not as deep. Being out of the
infamous Roaring Forties also means the weather is more favourable
for the eight aircraft that took off Saturday.
"We shouldn't underestimate the difficulty of this work," Prime
Minister Tony Abbott said in Perth. "These are inhospitable seas.
We're trying to find small bits of wreckage in a vast ocean."
Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the search for
the missing aircraft will continue.
"We are not going to stop with the search and rescue," he said in a
press briefing after meeting relatives of the passengers in a hotel
on the outskirt of the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur.
"We promised that no matter how remote the chances are in finding any
survivors, our utmost priority always was that," he added. "If there
is any information on survivors, we will pursue it."
Hishammuddin added investigators from the US Federal Bureau of
Investigation did not find anything from the flight simulator seized
at the house MH370 pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah which could
provide clues in the search of the missing plane.
He did not give details about the FBI probe, adding it is still being
corroborated by the Malaysian police, and Inspector General Khalid
Abu Bakar will disclose the findings on the simulator soon.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority warned in its latest
bulletin that many supposed sightings may prove false.
"It's not known how much flotsam, such as from fishing activities, is
ordinarily there. At least one distinctive fishing object has been
identified," it cautioned.
The agency, managing the search on behalf of the Malaysians, has
about a week to find the so-called black boxes before their batteries
fade and their signals give out.


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