Contradictory statements from Malaysia over missing airliner perplex, infuriate
By Washington Post, Updated: March 12 at 3:03 am
BEIJING – The media shouldn’t issue unconfirmed reports about the missing airliner, Malaysia’s civil aviation chief complained this week, as it only raised people’s hopes and hampered the investigation.
And then Azharuddin Abdul Rahman proceeded to issue the latest in a series of contradictory statements on the missing plane – statements from the Malaysians that have added to the confusion, infuriated passengers’ relatives and frustrated nearby governments.
The confusion began on Saturday morning, when Malaysia Airlines issued a statement saying Flight MH370 on its way to Kuala Lumpur to Beijing had vanished from radar screens at 2:40 a.m. that morning. The following day, without explanation, it fell into line with its own government, revising the time the airplane vanished to 1:30 am, less than an hour after it had taken off.
On Saturday, journalists in Italy and Austria worked out that two people must have boarded the plane with stolen passports. The Malaysian government reacted by confirming it was aware of the reports, then raising the number of people thought to have been travelling with false identification to four, and then cutting it back to two again.
(More here.)
BEIJING – The media shouldn’t issue unconfirmed reports about the missing airliner, Malaysia’s civil aviation chief complained this week, as it only raised people’s hopes and hampered the investigation.
And then Azharuddin Abdul Rahman proceeded to issue the latest in a series of contradictory statements on the missing plane – statements from the Malaysians that have added to the confusion, infuriated passengers’ relatives and frustrated nearby governments.
The confusion began on Saturday morning, when Malaysia Airlines issued a statement saying Flight MH370 on its way to Kuala Lumpur to Beijing had vanished from radar screens at 2:40 a.m. that morning. The following day, without explanation, it fell into line with its own government, revising the time the airplane vanished to 1:30 am, less than an hour after it had taken off.
On Saturday, journalists in Italy and Austria worked out that two people must have boarded the plane with stolen passports. The Malaysian government reacted by confirming it was aware of the reports, then raising the number of people thought to have been travelling with false identification to four, and then cutting it back to two again.
(More here.)
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