MH370: Search For Flight Black Box Underway

The head of the Australian search agency has said the underwater hunt for the black box from missing flight MH370 begins later today.

Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston told a news conference: "The Australian Navy and the Royal Navy have today commenced a sub-surface search for emissions from the black box pinger from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

"Using the towed pinger from the US Navy on Australian defence vessel Ocean Shield and a similar capability on HMS Echo, the two ships will search a single 240km track converging on each other."

It comes after Malaysia's opposition leader accused the government of deliberately concealing information about missing flight MH370.

Mr Razak met with Mr Abbott at an Australian base near Perth

Anwar Ibrahim, who personally knew the pilot of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, called for an international committee to take over the Malaysian-led operation, saying "the integrity of the whole nation is at stake".

He indicated it was even possible that there was "complicity by authorities on the ground" in what happened to the plane and the 239 people on board.

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, he said it was "not only unacceptable but not possible, not feasible" that the plane had not been sighted by the Marconi radar system immediately after it changed course.

He claimed the radar would have instantly detected the jet as it travelled east to west across "at least four" Malaysian provinces.

Mr Anwar told the newspaper it was "baffling" that the country's air force had "remained silent", and suggested that it "should take three minutes under SOP (standard operating procedure) for the air force planes to go. And there was no response".

Mr Anwar's comments follow a pledge made by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and his Australia counterpart Tony Abbott that no effort would be spared to give the families of those on board the answers they need.

The two countries are heading multinational efforts in the Indian Ocean in the hunt for debris to solve the mystery of the jet.

Mr Razak, whose government has been harshly criticised by some victims' families for giving sometimes conflicting information about the flight and for the slow pace of the investigation, described the search as a "gargantuan task".

The investigation remains the responsibility of Malaysia

But he insisted there would be no let up for the sake of the victims' families.

He said: "We owe it to the grieving families to ... give them comfort and closure to this rather tragic event and the world expects us to do our level best.

"We want to find answers. We want to provide comfort to the families and we will not rest until answers are indeed found."

Mr Abbott said Australia was "throwing everything at it" to find the plane, which disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8.

No trace of the jet has been found almost four weeks after it vanished.

Relatives of the victims are still trying to get answers

Ten planes and nine ships were involved in search operations Thursday, scouring the ocean far off Australia's southwest corner where investigators believe the plane may have ended up after unknown events occurred on board.

More resources will be committed to the wreckage hunt today, with 14 planes and nine ships to search a 84,000 sq mile (217,000sq km) expanse 1,100 miles (1,700km) northwest of Perth, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre overseeing the search said.

Although Australia is co-ordinating the ocean search, the investigation into the tragedy ultimately remains Malaysia's responsibility.

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