The forgotten details of MH370

Family of missing Malaysian Airlines Captain Zaharie Shah from flight MH370 pay tribute to him. Courtesy: Chumguan Phoon/YouTube

ANGRY family members of those on board MH370 have sent an 18-page letter to the Prime Ministers of Australia and Malaysia, demanding answers about the ill-fated flight.

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The letter, calling for the truth, has been sent to Tony Abbott and Najib Razak, along with a host of Malaysian ministers and Government bodies involved in the search for the plane which today enters its 76th day with no trace.

So far the family group which composed and sent the letter has had no response from any Government official but says they are not surprised by the lack of communication.

The letter comprises an analysis of the preliminary report into the plane's disappearance, which was released on May 1 but written a month earlier, on April 9.

Family member, Sarah Bajc, whose partner Philip Wood was on board the plane, said that a host of experts, including retired pilots and air traffic controllers and military experts, had helped the family group to analyse the preliminary report.

And what the families want is for a host of erroneous information, which is currently out there about what happened to the plane, to be eliminated.

They want the truth.

Ms Bajc said the families want more answers about the investigation to be released and for transparency.

The Malaysian Government has now pledged to publicly release the raw satellite data, from Insmarsat satellite communications company. But they have given no time frame for when this would be done.

The data was used to plot the Boeing 777-200's path after it disappeared from civilian and military radar and showed it had flown down into the southern Indian Ocean, off Perth.

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Seeking the truth ... Sarah Bajc and her partner Philip Wood. He went missing with Malaysia Flight MH370. Picture: Facebook Source: Supplied

The letter to Australian and Malaysian leaders says the preliminary report contains only a "skimpy account" of some things and contains glaring ommisions. And it makes no mention of the police investigation into the crew and passengers and what that has found out.

"The purpose of this analysis is to highlight discrepancies of facts or details in the report itself and to consolidate the outstanding questions many people expected would have been addressed but were not," the letter says.

Still looking for clues ... Australian navy vessel Ocean Shield is pictured berthed at Fleet Base West near Perth as it prepared to resupply and undertake routine maintenance. Picture: Greg Wood Source: AFP

"We request that a comprehensive interim report be issued as soon as possible detailing all the known facts, to include, but not be limited to, the many areas that we have enumerated in our analysis. We believe that eliminating wrong information and assumptions is as important as confirming correct information and assumptions."

Taking its toll ... one family member of a missing relative on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 from China breaks down as she speaks to the media at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Picture: Azhar Rahim Source: AP

The letter includes questions about "omitted information" from the preliminary report which could be suspicious, retracted data which waves a red flag. And there is no mention of an FBI analysis of the flight simulator hard drive at the chief pilot's home.

"There is no mention on why they are so sure the Inmarsat data is highly accurate and reliable to the extent that they have thrown all resources there," referring to the search in the southern Indian Ocean.

"There are no statements from the independent sources who supposedly looked at the edata as to what data they analysed or how they analysed it."

The families of those on board have long been asking for access to the raw satellite data in a bid to have it independently analysed by experts.

Search continues ... Able Seaman Matthew Tranter-Edwards kneels alongside the 'Artemis' Bluefin-21, on the deck of the Australian navy ship Ocean Shield. Picture: Greg Wood Source: AFP

The Malaysian Airlines flight, with 239 passengers and crew on board, disappeared in the early hours of March 8 on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Since then no trace of the jetliner has been found, despite a multi-million dollar search effort.

There are so far no clues, at least publicly known, for why and how the plane veered so radically from its course, doing an air turnback as it was crossing between Malaysian and Vietnamese air space, and then flying back over Malaysia, over the tip of Indonesia and into the treacherous southern Indian Ocean.

The search, off Perth, has so far yielded little and doubt is now also being cast on a series of "pings" which authorities were certain had come from the plane's black box.

The search has now entered a new phase and underwater mapping of the ocean bed is due to begin soon.

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