27th May 2014 05:47
Kuala Lumpur (Alliance News) - Malaysia and the Inmarsat satellite data company released raw communications data Tuesday related to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that disappeared on March 8.
"Finally, after almost three months, the Inmarsat raw data is released to the public," said a post on the Facebook page of relatives of people aboard the missing aircraft, who had pushed for the information to be published.
"Hope this is the original raw data and can be used to potentially 'think out of the box' to get an alternative positive outcome," it said.
Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) said the data included an explanation to guide readers.
"Inmarsat and the DCA have been working for the release of the data communication logs and the technical description of the analysis," the department said.
The plane vanished about an hour into a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, mostly Chinese nationals.
Malaysia bore the brunt of the criticism, especially from Chinese relatives, over alleged lack of transparency and the bungling of the search operations.
Searches so far have failed to locate the missing plane that was suspected to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.
Copyright dpa
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