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        Report Sheds No Light on Disappearance of Missing Malaysia Plane

   by VOA News

   Malaysia on Sunday released an interim investigation report on the
   disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, exactly one year after
   the Boeing 777 disappeared without a trace with 239 passengers and crew
   on board.

   The report shed no new light on the mystery, clearing the pilot and
   flight crew of any behavioral abnormalities or habits and also noting
   that nothing alarming was found in an investigation of maintenance
   records.  The only unusual finding was that the battery powering the
   plane's location beacon had expired a year before the disappearance.

   Prime Minister Najib Razak said in a statement Sunday that "Malaysia
   remains committed to the search and hopeful that MH370 will be found."

   The head of the investigation team, Kok Soo Chon, said "In the months
   ahead, the investigation team will need to analyze to draw conclusions
   and safety recommendations based on the factual information that has
   been gathered."

   Meanwhile, relatives of the Chinese passengers on the flight gathered
   at temples in Beijing to mark the anniversary.

   Despite an estimated $200 million having been spent in a multi-national
   search far off Australia's western coast, no trace of the jetliner has
   been found.  Search ships have so far scoured 44 percent of a 60,000
   square kilometer area in the Indian Ocean where investigators estimate
   the plane went down.
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