Nine months in, the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is as, if not more, perplexing as it was the first days and weeks it went missing. Despite the lack of answers even after months of searching, Australian Transport Safety Bureau's Peter Foley, the head of the full-scale search mission, is positive that the lost aircraft will soon turn up along the shores of Indonesia. It, however, becomes a more wearisome wait as "things in the ocean take a long time to come ashore."
"Something is going to wash up somewhere on the beach, most probably in Sumatra," Foley told News Corp Australia. "We've had many people handing things into the local police. We send it off to Boeing and they identify it, but as yet we haven't positively identified anything from the aircraft. Personally, I think something eventually will be found."
He believes that the officials were initially looking in the wrong place, hence wasting the first 10 days of the search. Investigations eventually revealed that Flight MH370 strangely took a westward turn, and now the operation is centered on the Indian Ocean (about 1,200 miles off the coast of Australia) and it will continue to be the focus of the investigation next year.
On the other hand, Chairman of Emirates Airlines Tim Clark believes that vital information is on ice. He asks for "full transparency on the matter," asking authorities to lay all the details bare and, once and for all, educate the public of where MH370 really ended up.
"Who actually disabled ACARS [the plane's Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System], who knew how to do it? If you eliminate the pilot on a suicide mission, I'm sure you could have put the aircraft in the South China Sea, rather than fly it for seven hours. So if he was on a suicide mission, he would have done it then. Who then took control of the aircraft?" Clark questioned via Mirror as cited by IB Times.
While Clark looks for answers he believes are being kept from the world's knowledge, Foley continues to search for answers as he remains confident that the mystery behind the disappearance of Flight MH370 will be revealed soon.
"We will find the answer. It's important for the world to know what happened to this aircraft," Foley said.
