MH370: 'The Malaysian government is not being truthful'

Published March 22, 2014
The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 enters its third week raising more questions than answers. - Video by Reuters

The first search plane of the day takes off from an Australian air force base near Perth as the hunt for missing flight MH370 ends its second week.

More than two dozen countries are taking part in the search for the Malaysia Airlines plane and its 239 passengers.

Six aircraft and two merchant ships are concentrating on an area in the remote southern Indian Ocean where floating objects were spotted by satellite.

There's nothing to say it was connected in any way to the missing plane but it's seen at least as a credible lead.

Fourteen days of intensive searching have so far yielded little but frustration and raised new questions.

Airlineratings.com editor Geoffrey Thomas says the disappearance is baffling.

Malaysia's government has rejected complaints that the search has been botched and that it's failed to share vital information.

Among some Malaysians there is also a perception that officials know more than they're letting on.

The search has also resumed n the Andaman Sea between India and Thailand, another place the aircraft may have ended up.

All the while the families of those on board the missing jet can only sit and wait for even a hint of news about their fate.

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