MH370 Search Is 'Goose Chase' and Will Be 'Abandoned': Emirates Boss
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Tim Clark, President and CEO of Emirates Airlines speaks at the 2015 International Air Transport Association Annual General Meeting and World Air Transport Summit in Miami Beach, June 8, 2015.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.
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"Do we have solutions? Do we have explanations? Cause? Reasons? No," said Clark, whose airline is the world's biggest operator of Boeing 777s—the same type that vanished in March 2014. "It has sent us down a goose chase. It will be an Amelia Earhart repetition."
Earhart vanished in 1937 while attempting a solo round-the-world flight and her aircraft has never been found.
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A joint investigation by Australia and Malaysia, helped by other international experts, has so far concluded from satellite data that the jet probably changed course and headed south for several hours before running out of fuel. Experts have identified a 46,000 square mile search zone where they believe the plane likely entered the water—an area about the size of Pennsylvania. However, only 19,000 square miles have been searched so far.
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Authorities have not put a time limit on the operation, but have warned that they will not expand the search if the wreckage is not found inside the current zone.