Aviation expert Ron Bartsch is surprised that nothing has been found of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and thinks the chances of discovery are more remote by the day.
A NUMBER of sighted objects have provided false hope in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, with none associated with the missing plane.
The Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Navy are racing against time to find the plane's back box recorder, believed to be somewhere in a 217,000 square kilometre patch of ocean off the coast of Perth, using technology on board the vessels Ocean Shield and HMS Echo.
Lead search co-ordinator Air Chief Marshall Angus Houston warned the clock was ticking, as the search entered a fourth agonising week.
"On best advice, the locator beacon will last about a month before it ceases its transmissions. So we are now getting pretty close to the time when it might expire," he said.
He expressed disappointment at not having found any debris yet.
Lost at sea ... Air Chief Marshall Angus Houston says objects spotted in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 haven't been associated with the missing plane. Source: News Corp Australia
"Unfortunately all the leads we got from the satellites turned out to be other things other than wreckage from the aircraft."
However the leader of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JAC) wasn't giving up hope.
"I think there is still a great possibility of finding something on the surface. There are lots of things in aircraft that float," he said.
Friday's search in the Indian Ocean involved 14 planes and nine ships, the JAC said.
Weather in the search area was good, with visibility greater than 10 kilometres.
Explosive claims of concealment
Meanwhile, Malaysian Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim claimed Malaysia was deliberately concealing information about missing flight MH370 and the country's radar system should have easily tracked the plane.
'Cover-up' ... Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim claims it's not possible that the nation's radar system did not track flight MH370 after it changed course. Source: AFP
The explosive claims come in an interview with the UK Telegraph, in which the former Deputy Prime Minister called for an international group to lead the investigation into the missing flight, as Malaysia's integrity "is at stake".
Mr Ibrahim stated that when he was Malaysian finance minister in 1994, he authorised the installation of a sophisticated radar system.
It was "not only unacceptable but not possible, not feasible" that Malaysia's radar system did not track flight MH370 after it changed course while flying over the Gulf of Thailand in the early hours of March 8, he told The Telegraph.
"We don't have the sophistication of the United States or Britain but still we have the capacity to protect our borders," he said.
Under standard operating procedure, the Malaysian air force should have been alerted to a problem with MH370 within minutes, he said.
Mr Ibrahim accused the Malaysian government of an "intention to suppress key information" about MH370.
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