Malaysia, China And Australia Will Coordinate Media Info On Search For MH370, Says Minister

HULU TERENGGANU (Terengganu, Malaysia), Sept 2 (Bernama) -- Malaysia, China and Australia, which are involved in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, have agreed to coordinate media information on it to ensure uniformity so that the effort is not disturbed, said Deputy Communication and Multimedia Minister Jailani Johari. Jailani, who is also the chairman of the Communications and Media Relations Committee on the MH370 tragedy, said towards this end, two Malaysian officers had been stationed in Canberra to relay timely information back home. "Besides this, the three countries will also stay in contact via video conferencing each day to keep updated on the latest developments relating to the search for MH370," he told reporters here Monday. Flight MH370 dropped off radar on March 8 as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board. The Boeing 777 aircraft has yet to be found, even after an exhaustive search in the southern Indian Ocean where it is believed to have gone down after veering off course. After a multinational search for the missing aircraft for more than a month in the southern Indian Ocean did not turn up anything, Malaysia, China and Australia agreed to continue the mission further south of the original search area. --BERNAMA