PersonConfirmed
Najib Razak
Prime Minister of Malaysia, 2014
Head of government
On 24 March 2014 announced that MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean with no survivors, based on Inmarsat’s then-new analysis.
The 15 March and 24 March 2014 briefings are the political hinge from a missing airliner in the South China Sea to a southern-ocean accident. Who inside government had the westbound radar and the SATCOM file, and when, remains an open disclosure question.
Sources
- Prime Minister’s statements, 15 and 24 March 2014
Related
TimelineOfficial finding15 Mar 2014 00:00 UTC
Malaysia announces the southern Indian Ocean track
15 March 2014
Open questionOpen
Why did SAR start in the wrong ocean for days?
OrganisationConfirmed
Joint Agency Coordination Centre
Australia · southern Indian Ocean search coordination
DocumentDisputed19 Feb 2020
MH370: The Untold Story / The Cover-Up
Peter Stefanovic · Sky News 2020 · later Amazon two-part