It has indeed been a somber weekend as the world is hit with unsettling news of the missing MH370 Malaysia Airlines flight, carrying 227 passengers including two infants and 12 crew members.
Following the discovery that two MH370 passengers boarded the flight using stolen passports, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak says that all air travel security procedures at Malaysian airports will be reviewed.
He said air security protocols would be further enhanced if the review found it necessary and that the government would review every procedure as it did not know the actual cause of how this has happened.
“At the moment, when we don’t have any solid evidence there are surely many theories swirling about but they are not conclusive,” the Prime Minister said after launching the 2014 National Reconciliation Programme.
Regarding the possibility of the missing flight’s apparent “turn back”, this indicated that there was suspicion of terrorism and Najib said, “We have to find all possible leads and investigate before we can arrive at a definite finding.”
Deputy Home Minister Datuk Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar had announced earlier that all ministry’s agencies, especially the police and the Immigration Department, had been instructed to conduct more stringent checks.
Najib revealed that Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott had expressed his government’s sympathies and offered two PC Orion surveillance aircraft to help in the search.
He said the two Australian aircraft would be directed to an area specified by the Department of Civil Aviation and the Royal Malaysian Air Force.
Personnel from at least nine countries are currently working hard to obtain answers on what happened to the ill-fated flight that vanished on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.
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