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John Goglia, a safety consultant and former member of the US National Transportation Safety Board, believes it will be carried out by the private sector, probably Boeing.
Goglia was quoted in the magazine Popular Mechanics as saying that even though the official government funding for the search had run out, it did not mean the quest for answers was over.
He said the search would continue, with Boeing most likely taking the lead.
This is because MH370 was a Boeing 777. However the US manufacturer has yet to make any official statement on this.
MH370 disappeared while on a routine flight from Beijing to Kuala Lumpur in March 2014 with 239 people on board. It is now the biggest aviation mystery.
Although there is some evidence that a revised search zone may shed some light, the joint search operation by Malaysia, Australia, and China, led by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, is due to end in January.
A recent review by experts concluded that investigators may have been searching in the wrong place for MH370 all along. Malaysia, China and Australia have said they would stop the search operation by the end of January unless there was new and credible evidence that surfaced.
The report said this decision had not only enraged families of the 239 people aboard MH370 but also aviation professionals, who argued that leaving a high-profile disaster unsolved was itself a threat to aviation safety.
It quoted the president of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots, David Booth, as saying it was important to recover the wreckage of every single plane crash to determine the cause.
He said the global aviation industry should rally to “fund a search of all feasible areas.”
Meanwhile, Goglia was quoted by Popular Mechanics as saying the privately-funded search would be “smaller and more focused, but that’s probably better”.
He noted the similarity to the 1987 crash of a South African Airways 747, also in the southern Indian Ocean. The plane was eventually recovered after years of searching from depths of 4,900 metres.
The report hinted that politics was also at play in air crash searches and investigations involving non-Western nations. Goglia was quoted as saying: “Most Western countries have laws designed to keep politics out of air crash investigations. But that is not the case in much of the rest of the world.”
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