The official in charge of the hunt for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has declared its disappearance “an unprecedented missing aircraft mystery” and said tantalising leads reported at the weekend had evaporated.
“We have not found anything that appears to be objects from the aircraft let alone the aircraft,” Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director-general of Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation, said on Monday in Kuala Lumpur. “We will be intensifying our efforts to locate the aircraft.”
On Sunday, media reports said that a Vietnamese plane had spotted a possible door from flight MH370, which disappeared early Saturday morning en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew aboard. But ships could not reach the area before night fell and the object was not located when the search resumed at dawn.