KUALA LUMPUR, April 12 (Bernama) -- Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has once again expressed his gratitude to all countries involved in the search for the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that has entered the 36th day today.
The prime minister said the Malaysian government would not forget the assistance and cooperation extended by every individual, organisation, military and country since the search and rescue operation began after the jetliner was reported missing on March 8.
"Once again I would like to express my deepest appreciation to all governments involved in the search for MH370 aircraft.
"The assistance and cooperation of every individual, organisation, military and government involved we will not be forgotten," he said in his Facebook post tonight.
Last Thursday, Najib visited the Australia Royal Air Force (RAAF) base in Pearce, Perth to thank Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and others for their relentless effort to locate MH370 that reportedly ended its flight path in the southern Indian Ocean.
Flight MH370, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, left the KL International Airport at 12.41 am on March 8 and disappeared from radar screens about an hour later while over the South China Sea. It was to have landed in Beijing at 6.30 am on the same day.
A multinational search was mounted for the aircraft, first in the South China Sea and then, after it was learned that the plane had veered off course, along two corridors - the northern corridor stretching from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern Thailand and the southern corridor, from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.
Following an unprecedented type of analysis of satellite data, United Kingdom satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat and the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) concluded that Flight MH370 flew along the southern corridor and that its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth, Australia.
The prime minister then announced on March 24, seventeen days after the disappearance of Boeing 777-200 aircraft, that Flight MH370 "ended in the southern Indian Ocean". The search continues there.
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