Bangladesh Navy has sent two navy frigates to investigate the calims, CNN reports
Bangladesh has sent two navy frigates to investigate claims that wreckage of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane were in the Bay of Bengal, reports CNN.
“As soon as they get there, they will search and verify the information,” Bangladesh navy intelligence Director Commodore Rashed Ali told the CNN.
Australian-based firm GeoResonance claimed electromagnetic fields showed evidence of the possible debris of the MH370, which dissappeared on March 8.
The chief coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, retired Chief Air Marshal Angus Houston, however had been sceptical of the claim made by GeoResonance.
He had said the search area in the Indian Ocean had been set based on pings believed to have emanated from one or both of the plane’s voice and data recorders.
Houston’s views were supported by CNN aviation expert Miles O’Brien who said that GeoResonance’s claims were not supported by experts.
“My blood is boiling,” he told CNN’s “New Day” programme. “I’ve talked to the leading experts in satellite imaging capability at NASA, and they know of no technology that is capable of doing this. I am just horrified that a company would use this event to gain attention like this.”
He called on company officials to offer “a full explanation” for their assertion, which he said appeared to be based on “magic box” technology.
O’Brien also told CNN that sending investigators to the Bay of Bengal would draw away from the limited resources that are focused in the current search.
But that won’t stop the search teams from going, he said. “I think they have to,” he said. “It’s a public relations thing now.”
David Gallo, director of special projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, also expressed scepticism over the claim by GeoResonance.
Aviation experts, however, said investigators are obligated to check out GeoResonance’s claim.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
