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Relatives of passengers who were on Malaysia Airlines MH370 chant outside the Malaysian embassy in Beijing, March 8, 2016, the second anniversary of the plane's disappearance. Photo: GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images
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The continued search for missing Malaysia
Airlines flight MH370 is uncertain now that Australia has decided not to
provide funds past July, but Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker
argues there should be no price ceiling stopping the investigation into
what happened to the passenger jet, the News Australia reported.
Millions of dollars have been spent in the search and Al Baker said
the International Air Transport Association had not done enough to
raise concerns about the search and “unprecedented” disappearance.
“For me as the CEO of an airline, it’s very
concerning that the international community for monetary purposes are
going to abandon the search for this aeroplane,” Al Baker said
Wednesday. “I don’t think there is any amount that is too much to find
why this tragedy happened where over 200 people lost their lives.”
The search for MH370 will likely not continue
beyond July with the Australian government deciding not to provide
additional funds for the operation. The Australian Transport Safety
Bureau’s budget has been significantly slashed and the agency will also lose nine staff members.
Australia has contributed more than $67 million to the search effort, the Herald Sun reported.
Both the Chinese and Malaysian governments have also contributed
financially to the search. China has spent more than $14 million while
Malaysia has spent in excess of $55 million in the search efforts.
“It is very critical for all in the industry,
all the countries in the world to try to find the wreckage of this
plane, to find out exactly what happened,” Al Baker added.
Debris from MH370 has washed ashore in both
Mozambique and the island of Reunion. A wing part called a flaperon was
found on Reunion and investigators said its discovery was consistent
with ocean currents.
MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, while the
aircraft was over the Indian Ocean en route from Kuala Lumpur to
Beijing. There were 239 people on board. The missing Boeing 777 has 3
million components and had a maintenance check a month before it
disappeared, Bloomberg reported.
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