Malaysia calls for better tracking of flights

May 01, 2014 22:22

The Malaysian government said on Thursday that it would push for international standards requiring that commercial aircraft be tracked in real time throughout their flights, to prevent any more disappearances like that of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

The recommendation came in a report by the country's chief inspector of air accidents on the search for the missing jet, which left only tantalizing clues to its likely whereabouts that were not recognized or understood for days after it disappeared on March 8 with 239 people aboard.

Investigators eventually concluded that the plane must have fallen into the southern Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia, thousands of miles from its planned course over the Gulf of Thailand, where searchers initially wasted crucial days hunting fruitlessly.

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