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Flight MH370: Emirates chief Sir Tim Clark believes information is being concealed
The head of the world’s largest international airline believes information about missing flight MH370 is being concealed, calling into question who was in control of the doomed aircraft and the role of the Malaysian military.
Emirates chief Sir Tim Clark said an unwillingness to share intelligence was obstructing the investigation into the fate of the plane, which vanished in March with 229 people on board.
“I think we will know more if there is full transparency of everything that everybody knows. I do not believe that the information held by some is on the table,” Clark said.
A previously unpublished transcript of an interview with Clark by German aviation journalist Andreas Spaeth, reveals the depth of doubt the industry veteran holds about nearly all aspects of the investigation into the disappearance of MH370.
Emirates has more of the Boeing 777, the make of MH370, in its fleet than any other airline.
Clark said his electronic engineers believe that even though the plane’s Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, known as ACARS, was disabled it would still send out weak signals and remain traceable.
To even disable the system, which allows the aircraft to communicate with the base through satellite, you would have to go through multiple steps including entering the avionics bay, he said.
“That requires you to leave the flight deck and go down through a trap door in the floor to do that. But somehow this thing was disabled so much so that the ground tracking capability was eliminated.”
Clark dismissed pilot suicide as a possible cause of the tragedy, saying the pilot would have ditched the plane in South China Sea rather than fly it for several more hours.
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