Staff Correspondent
Port Blair, Mar 16: Andaman and Nicobar Command today put on hold its search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, at the request of Malaysian government.
“Instructions have been received to suspend search till fresh search areas allotted by Malaysia. Air search operations for today were put on hold. Navy ships remaining off Kamorta Islands. Coast Guard ships revert to routine surveillance till furthers,” a senior officers of ANC told ‘Andaman Sheekha’ today, who does not want his name to be quoted.
The fate of the flight, with 239 passengers and crew aboard, has been shrouded in mystery since it vanished off Malaysia’s east coast less than an hour into a March 8 flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
The ANC command have been conducting only surface search in a way that ANC don’t have to go again to that areas for search. ANC was looking for debris and did not use equipments for underwater search as it is a vast area and that needs specific locations.
On specific request from Malaysia, the Andaman and Nicobar Command had also searched all the Islands with the help of defence aircrafts but no trace of any crash or debris has been found.
“We are in standby, the operation ‘Search Light’ is not over yet,” he added.
