This is the second time since the Beijing-bound plane went missing on March 8, that the Chinese relatives demonstrated in front of the embassy demanding Malaysian officials come out with the truth about the missing plane.
Earlier, relatives had lashed out over Najib's “abrupt” announcement that the plane “ended” in the southern Indian Ocean where nearly seven weeks of search on the surface and beneath the sea have yielded no results. The protesters said that this time they were angry over the failure of Malaysian officials to be present at the briefing by the airline yesterday as promised before.
Forty-nine days after the plane vanished from radar screens, mystery continues to shroud the fate of Boeing 777-200 that veered off from its route carrying 239 people, including five Indians, after taking off from Kuala Lumpur.
A robotic mini-submarine scouring the seabed for wreckage of the plane has failed to yield results after 12 missions and searching nearly 95 per cent of the focused underwater search area.
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Bluefin-21, a US Navy probe equipped with side-scan sonar, is currently completing mission 13, Perth-based Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) leading the search said.
JACC also said that the Bluefin would widen its search. “If no contacts of interest are made, Bluefin 21 will continue to examine the areas adjacent to the 10-kilometer radius,” it said in a statement.
