Families of missing passengers condemn MH370 satellite data

Families of passengers travelling aboard the tragic MH370 condemned the raw satellite data tracking the plane's last movements released by the Malaysian government and said that it was 'little that is new'.

The families questioned the information released by the government and also urged for further report on the aircraft Boeing-777.

According to Sky News, among the data, which included signals known as 'handshakes' between the aircraft and a satellite operated by British firm Inmarsat, was the last transmission received from the aircraft terminal, at 00:19 Malaysian time. Aviation analysts also revealed that one of the so-called pings nearly 30 minutes before that is omitted from the data for unknown reasons.

One of the relatives of the missing passengers said that the data on its own meant nothing as it led to a conclusion and not an ending.

The report further added that most of the information released related to data from the plane while it was still on the ground in Kuala Lumpur as experts have attributed that additional data giving the exact position of satellites and their distance from the aircraft have not been released, making further analysis difficult.

However, key information was released for the first time that investigators were considering whether the MH370 flight was on a different route over the Indian Ocean that connected Cocos Island to Perth.

Mischa Dohler, Professor of wireless communication at King's College, London said that the data released gives people an idea of how the aircraft might have been prone to the accident but the neglect of certain information have left unanswered questions.