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EDITOR’S NOTE CREDITS

Mystery Still to Unfold Editor
Vittorio Rossi Prudente
vittorio.prudente@gbp.com.sg
The search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Associate Editor
is one of the greatest mysteries of the modern era. Jay Menon
jay.menon@gbp.com.sg
Operations Director
It is scarcely believable, that in this day and age, traces of a civilian jetliner Siva Sachi
carrying 239 people which disappeared on March 8, 2014, an hour after take- siva.sachi@gbp.com.sg
off, from Kuala Lumpur airport on a six hour flight to Beijing have yet to be Art Director
found. The answers sought by the still grieving families of those who were Arthur Chan
on-board the ill-fated aircraft, now appear to be at closer at hand with the arthur.chan@gbp.com.sg
announcement by Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak, that the Web Director
Elmer Valencia
flaperon found on Reunion Island last July 29, was indeed from Flight MH370. elmer.valencia@gbp.com.sg
Will this two-meter long piece of wreckage give new hope Circulation Manager
to the search for the missing flight MH370? Khairul Naem
khairul.naem@gbp.com.sg
The Australian Transportation Safety Bureau (ATSB), which is leading the ADvERTISING CONTACTS:
search effort, has said that the flaperon found at La Réunion, “is consistent marketing@gbp.com.sg
with the current underwater search area in the southern Indian Ocean.” The Europe – Canada and all other countries:
enormity of the search effort can be judged by the 1.1 million square km Global Communications sas
Tel: +39 049 723548
search area, situated in a remote and unmapped part of the world. A total Helen@global-communications.it
of 120,000 square km will now be part of the search, with the addition of a USA
60,000 square km area, identified as having the highest probability of finding Contact: Josh Mayer
the lost jetliner. The task expected to be completed next year, as a result of Tel : +1 972 816-6745 Fax : +1 972 767 4442
Email : jm@mayeradvertising.com
the search having to slow down due to bad weather, during the winter.
Israel
Contact: Tamir Eshel
It is the chance recovery of the flaperon, which could now provide that vital Tel : + 972 544 508 028 / +972 989 117 92
direction for teams that have been scouring the oceans for a clue, at a cost running Fax : +972 989 199 65
Email : eshel_tamir@yahoo.com
into millions of dollars, for the last 16 months. The search effort for the lost airliner China
is being conducted on an unprecedented scale with close cooperation between the Contact: Xu Yixin 徐一新
Governments of Malaysia, China and Australia. There is no doubt that the following Mob: +8613811688955
Tel: 86-10-58354055 / Fax: 86-10-84043033
months, will throw up more evidence on the fate of lost jetliner and provide further E-mail : xuyixin@cannews.com.cn
insights as to the true cause of the loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
South East Asia
Contact: Siva Sachi
The French General Directorate of Armaments laboratory specializing Mob: +6012-905 6825
E-mail : siva.sachi@gbp.com.sg
in investigations after accidents will determine whether it is part of the
Malaysia Airlines MH370. If confirmed to be part of MH370, the wreckage
will eliminate some of the fanciful theories that have been around that the
aircraft is secretly parked somewhere on land in another part of the world. Global Business Press Pte. Ltd.
Hope the discovery of the debris won’t disrupt the international search operation. ASIAN AIRLINES & AIRPORTS
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