The Bangladesh Navy has not found any sign of the missing Malaysian Airlines jetliner MH 370 during its search operation in the Bay of Bengal and its adjoining areas for the last five days.
Director Naval Operation Commodore SM Hakim said this while briefing reporters over their search operation yesterday.
Commodore SM Hakim, however, said the search operation in the maritime boundary of Bangladesh will continue until further notice from the government, reports the UNB.
Bangladesh Navy conducted their search operation in about 87,000sqkm areas of the maritime boundary in the last five days but did not find any sign or any wreckage of the missing plane till Wednesday, Hakim said.
Two frigates and two maritime patrol aircrafts of Bangladesh Navy started the search operation for the missing plane in the Bay on March 14 midnight.
Replying to a question, he said if the Malaysian plane had crashed into the sea then oil and wreckage of the plane would have been found in it. “But we didn’t find any kind of wreckage during the search operation.”
Director Naval Intelligence Commodore M Rashed Ali also replied to the queries of the reporters at the press briefing.
At least 20 Naval vessels that have been under regular peacetime operations were also asked to watch over the bay, the officials said.
The Navy officials have been consistently exchanging information with their Malaysian counterparts about the search over the Bay, they added.
Assistant Naval Chief Rear Admiral AMMM Aurangzeb Chowdhury was, among others, present at the briefing.
The Malaysian aircraft with 239 people on board vanished from the air traffic control screens at 1:30am on March 8, less than an hour into a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
It is one of the most baffling mysteries in the history of modern aviation as there has been no trace of the plane since nor any sign of wreckage despite a search by navies and military aircraft from over a dozen countries across Southeast Asia.
