Aust, Malaysia, China to discuss MH370

Aust, Malaysia, China to discuss MH370

Australian, Malaysian and Chinese ministers are to meet this week to discuss the next steps in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss and Chinese Transport Minister Chuantang are to travel to Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said.

They would review “the search efforts to date and collectively decide on next steps based on advice by the experts from the search strategy working group,” Liow said.

The ministers last met in August in Canberra.

Thursday’s meeting would come just over a year since the Boeing 777 vanished from radar on March 8, 2014 en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. On board were 227 passengers and 12 Malaysian crew members.

Over two-thirds of the passengers were from China.

Malaysia faced criticism in January for declaring all those on board officially dead. Relatives of the Chinese missing have demonstrated against the possible calling off of search efforts.

The search of a 60,000-square-kilometre arc of the seabed in the southern Indian Ocean is due to be completed in May.

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