國際刑警組織（ICPO）秘書長羅納德·諾布爾(Ronald K. Noble)3月11日針對馬來西亞航空370航班失聯的原因發表看法稱「不是恐怖襲擊的可能性較高」。同時表示已確認利用他人護照搭乘飛機的2人持有伊朗護照。路透社報導了上述消息。
馬來西亞警察總長哈利德（Khalid）在11日的記者會上也表示，利用他人護照搭乘飛機的2人中有1人是伊朗19歲男子。哈利德認為「該伊朗男子不大可能與恐怖組織有關」。馬來西亞警方尚未查明另一名利用他人護照搭乘飛機的男子的身份。
顯示失聯飛機所在位置的信息也尚不明確。馬來西亞航空在同一日發佈的聲明中表示「飛機保養方面沒有問題」。
據馬來西亞警方介紹，19歲伊朗男性名為普里亞·努爾·穆罕默德（Pouria Nour Mohammad）。他使用奧地利護照搭乘了馬航370航班。據推測其目的是前往德國。以伊朗為首的各國方正聯手收集信息，現已找到了該男子身在德國的母親。
19歲伊朗男子3月7日晚間在吉隆坡國際機場接受了出境檢查。另一位男子與19歲伊朗男子一前一後接受了出境檢查。身份尚未得到確認的男子持有他人被盜的意大利護照。
馬來西亞警方向媒體公佈了2人的照片。據哈利德介紹，目前警方正在調查239名乘客和機組人員的個人信息，並表示「現在還不能説恐怖襲擊的可能性降低了」。
（吉田涉 吉隆坡報導）
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| 馬來西亞警方在展示兩名使用被盜護照的男子的照片（11日，吉隆坡，KYODO） |
顯示失聯飛機所在位置的信息也尚不明確。馬來西亞航空在同一日發佈的聲明中表示「飛機保養方面沒有問題」。
據馬來西亞警方介紹，19歲伊朗男性名為普里亞·努爾·穆罕默德（Pouria Nour Mohammad）。他使用奧地利護照搭乘了馬航370航班。據推測其目的是前往德國。以伊朗為首的各國方正聯手收集信息，現已找到了該男子身在德國的母親。
19歲伊朗男子3月7日晚間在吉隆坡國際機場接受了出境檢查。另一位男子與19歲伊朗男子一前一後接受了出境檢查。身份尚未得到確認的男子持有他人被盜的意大利護照。
馬來西亞警方向媒體公佈了2人的照片。據哈利德介紹，目前警方正在調查239名乘客和機組人員的個人信息，並表示「現在還不能説恐怖襲擊的可能性降低了」。
（吉田涉 吉隆坡報導）
日本防衛省在3月12日上午的防衛會議上決定，為了協助搜索失去聯絡的馬來西亞飛機，將派遣航空自衛隊的運輸機等4架飛機趕赴當地。這是根據《國際緊急救援隊派遣法》採取的措施，最早將在12日先後投入。
日本將派遣航空自衛隊的C130運輸機和海上自衛隊的P3C巡邏機各2架。將以吉隆坡周邊機場為基地，在馬來半島周邊展開活動。為了應對搜索長期化，作為預備飛機，將準備1架C130在日本待命。在一系列的活動中投入的自衛隊人數預計達到160人左右。
為了展開搜索調查，日本政府于12日淩晨向馬來西亞派遣了由自衛隊隊員等組成的先遣隊。
日本將派遣航空自衛隊的C130運輸機和海上自衛隊的P3C巡邏機各2架。將以吉隆坡周邊機場為基地，在馬來半島周邊展開活動。為了應對搜索長期化，作為預備飛機，將準備1架C130在日本待命。在一系列的活動中投入的自衛隊人數預計達到160人左右。
為了展開搜索調查，日本政府于12日淩晨向馬來西亞派遣了由自衛隊隊員等組成的先遣隊。
Malaysia Finds Managing Crisis Exposes Leadership Limits
Malaysia, aspiring to become a developed nation in six years, is finding that more than 50 years under one coalition and tight control over information is a mismatch for handling a rapidly growing crisis followed across the world.China is calling on Malaysia to be more transparent as Prime Minister Najib Razak lets his cousin, Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, be the face of the investigation into why a Malaysian Airline System Bhd. (MAS) plane vanished on March 8. It was en route to Beijing with 239 people on board. Investigators from at least 12 countries are trying to locate the jet.
Najib’s United Malays National Organisation leads the coalition governing the Southeast Asian nation. Only in recent years has it seen a move toward more competitive elections, in some districts, that put a premium on public speaking. The government’s lack of a clear message, compounded by a series of false leads on the plane’s whereabouts and questions on coordination, risks undermining its image internationally.
“They’re handling a huge global issue as if it was domestic politics,” said Clive Kessler, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, who has analyzed the nation’s politics for half a century. “With the cause of the disappearance still unknown you can understand the need for discretion and caution but it’s being perceived in Malaysia and elsewhere in the region as a bid to hide the truth.”
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‘Doesn’t Work’
Najib’s administration is sending the message that people should let the “government tell them what they need to know, when they need to know it, and not before,” Kessler said. “That’s the way they’ve acted for generations and they are starting to find out it doesn’t work anymore.”Many newspapers and television networks in Malaysia are controlled by the government directly or indirectly. And Najib, 60, has yet to make good on a pledge to replace the nation’s Sedition Act with legislation that would protect free speech while preventing incitement of religious or ethnic hatred. The law, which dates back to 1948 when Malaysia was under British control, mandates jail sentences of at least three years for words deemed seditious, including those that “excite dissatisfaction” against the government.
Malaysia will do “whatever it takes” to find the plane, Hishammuddin told reporters in Kuala Lumpur today.
“Our immediate focus is to find the aircraft,” he said. “Unless we get the aircraft and the blackbox, it’s unlikely that we are able to answer a lot of speculative issues that have been raised out there.”
“We have been very consistent in what we have been saying in the last few days.”
Search Continues
Najib today called for a second briefing in two days with the search and rescue team, he said on Twitter. He requested a direct briefing by the relevant authorities after a parliament session yesterday, he said in an earlier post.Nations searching for the plane had little to go on with no distress calls or emergency-beacon signals. The hunt continued for a fifth day as planes and ships prowled waters on both sides of Peninsular Malaysia after failing to find debris along the jet’s route.
The discovery that two passengers boarded the missing flight using stolen passports raised concern about Malaysia’s immigration security practices.
“The Malaysian side cannot shirk its responsibilities,” the Global Times, a Chinese government-controlled newspaper, said in an editorial on March 10. “The initial response from Malaysia was not swift enough. There are loopholes in the work of Malaysia Airlines and security authorities.”
Urging Malaysia
Faced with pressure from families of the 153 Chinese nationals who were on the flight, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang for a second day yesterday noted the lack of progress in finding the Boeing Co. 777-200.“We once again request and urge the Malaysia side to enhance and strengthen rescue and searching efforts,” Qin told reporters in Beijing.
“The Chinese government is under quite a lot of pressure,” said Xu Liping, senior fellow at the National Institute of International Strategy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. Ordinary people in China feel the investigation “has not been professional.”
Broader ties between Malaysia and China probably won’t suffer, he said, citing a phone conversation between Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Najib on March 8 about the missing flight. “This channel has been unimpeded.”
Not Responsive
China accounted for 8.262 billion ringgit ($2.52 billion) of Malaysia’s exports in January, the second-largest amount after Singapore. Malaysia approved $920 million of foreign investment from China in the manufacturing sector in 2013, up from $646 million the year earlier, according to the Malaysian Investment Development Authority. Najib’s government has a $444 billion 10-year plan to build roads, ports and utilities plants to elevate the country to developed-nation status by 2020.Vietnam expressed concern today about coordination in the search effort. Malaysia’s cooperation “has not been positive” and Malaysian officials are not responsive to requests for information, Transport Deputy Minister Pham Quy Tieu told reporters in Hanoi.
It is understandable that Najib doesn’t want a high profile in this situation given his cautious personality, according to Joseph Liow, associate dean of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.
‘Chest Thumping’
“He’s not one who would go to the front of the camera and do lots of chest thumping and wave the flag and all that without being certain that there’s substantive” progress in the investigation, Liow said. “Hisham is very different from his cousin. He’s someone who is not uncomfortable with the limelight,” he said, referring to Hishammuddin.Hishammuddin, 52, has been the acting minister since a general election last May. He is unable to formally take the role given internal coalition rules on which party assumes particular posts in cabinet.
Other Asian leaders have faced questions for not reacting to crises immediately. Philippine President Benigno Aquino was criticized for taking two days to visit victims of Super Typhoon Haiyan last year. So was China’s former premier, Wen Jiabao, when he took more than two weeks to visit the site of the country’s worst snow storms in 50 years in 2008.
Hurricane Katrina
In the U.S., President George W. Bush was criticized for his handling of damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 after he remained on vacation as New Orleans flooded. He cut short the break by two days to survey the damage from the air, something he later said was a “huge mistake” since it made him look “detached and uncaring.”Najib needs to assure Malaysians and the international community that his government is doing all it can, said Vishnu Varathan, an economist at Mizuho Bank Ltd. in Singapore.
“What could have been done was the prime minister delegating the transport secretary to locating the plane and assigning one other person in charge of investigating the security breach and another to handle international relations,” he said. “It’s not easy to convey all that is happening in the background and the government needs to highlight these things.”
Airline Statement
Compounding the image that authorities leading the investigation are struggling to communicate effectively, Malaysian Airlines issued three versions of a press statement yesterday to correct several errors. One was a reference to an “expensive” rescue operation, which it meant to call “extensive.”“There are big issues -- transparency, information sharing, questions associated with security,” said Bridget Welsh, a political science professor at Singapore Management University. “They are not in control of the discussion and the problem is they’re not instilling confidence. Everyone wants to give them the benefit of the doubt but this is a crisis of credibility for the administration.”
Najib postponed a trip to Mauritius, according to the state-run news service Bernama. He also met the families of the crew from the missing plane at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, his press office said on Twitter on March 8.
‘Hisham’s Test’
Najib’s office directed queries on China’s concerns about the handling of the incident to authorities involved in the investigation.Hishammuddin, who is also defense minister, was elected a vice president of UMNO in October, putting him in line to possibly succeed Najib. He is the nephew of Malaysia’s second prime minister, Najib’s father, Abdul Razak Hussein.
“It’s a lack of experience, anybody would be tested,” said SMU’s Welsh. “This is Hisham’s test, and Najib’s government’s test.”
陸有Guts 「不計成本」全力搜救
大陸政府多個部門組成的聯合工作組，12日在吉隆坡與馬來西亞民航部門會面，並提交大陸乘客家屬要求清單。工作組並在大陸駐馬國大使館召開記者會，強調針對馬航失聯飛機開展的任何搜救都不為過，不存在成本問題。工作組強調，「無工作計畫時間表，核心是找到飛機」。馬航失聯班機上有153名大陸乘客，陸方10日決定派出由外交部、公安部、交通運輸部、民航局共13人組成的聯合工作組赴馬來西亞協助調查及處理相關事宜。大陸工作組12日上午與馬來西亞民航局約10名官員會面1個多小時，也探望了在吉隆坡的大陸乘客家屬。
馬航指出，截至12日下午1點，已經有115名家屬人在吉隆坡，每1個家庭至少有1名指定的照料者，目前已有72名照料者負責看護工作。同時來自大陸地區的每個家庭都配有1名翻譯人員。
《法 制晚報》報導，大陸旅客家屬將成立6到8人的家屬委員會，方便與馬航溝通。而馬航方面指，除先前承諾的慰問金及相關項目外，今後家屬提出的有關開支報銷問 題，需和總部商量。另外，馬航12日晚間，也向在北京麗都飯店的馬航失聯班機大陸乘客家屬發放3.1萬人民幣的慰問金。
中國不計成本擴大搜索
李克強與前方船長通話
中國不計成本擴大搜索
【香港商報訊】馬航飛機失聯已經五天過去了，卻依然杳無音訊，搜尋仍在繼續。12日上午10時15分，總理李克強參加完政協閉幕會議后來到 國務院應急指揮中心，與前方中國搜救船長通話，了解馬航MH370失聯客機搜救最新進展情况。目前，參加馬航失聯飛機搜救的中國艦船達到8艘，搜索範圍進 一步擴展。李克強要求各有關部門調集一切可能力量，加大搜救密度和力度，不放弃任何一線希望。
搜救不存在成本問題
12日早上6時40分，中國海軍兩栖登陸艦昆侖山艦攜帶兩架直升機，經過50多個小時的高速航行，順利抵達泰國灣相關海區，并隨即展開搜 索。至此，中國海軍共有井岡山艦、昆侖山艦、海口艦、綿陽艦4艘軍艦和4架直升機加入到搜救行列，加上中國國家交通部南海救101船、海警3411船、海 巡31船、南海救115船等4艘船隻，中國方面現在共有8艘艦船、4架飛機加入到馬航失聯航班搜救行列中。
根據統一安排，12日中方艦船的搜索範圍向西北方向的泰國灣內擴展，面積擴大至5000平方海里，約合17000平方公里。在同一海域附近實施搜救的還有馬來西亞、越南、泰國等多個國家的艦船。
12日上午8時，中國海軍千島湖艦從浙江舟山某軍港解纜起航奔赴泰國灣，為執行搜救馬航失聯飛機的艦船進行補給，并參與搜救。據悉，千島湖艦預計於17日凌晨4時30分抵達泰國灣就位點。
中國政府工作組在中國駐馬大使館昨日召開的新聞發布會上，強調針對馬航失聯飛機開展的任何搜救都不為過，不存在成本問題。
此外，中國外交部發言人秦剛在12日舉行的例行記者會上表示，有關「中國飛機正在陸上搜索失聯客機」的報道不實，中國參與搜救的飛機目前仍在海上開展搜救。
馬方須發權威具體信息
中國政府聯合工作組和中國駐馬來西亞使館工作人員12日與馬方舉行聯合工作會議，中方工作組組長、外交部領事司副司長郭少春表示，中國政府 和全國人民對事件的發生極度關切。目前最緊迫的任務仍然是加快搜救和調查。目前，中國上下、特別是乘客家屬急切盼望獲知馬方詳細工作進展。
郭少春表示，中方赞賞和肯定馬方的誠懇態度和積極努力，同時要求馬方認真傾聽、迅速回應乘客家屬的合理訴求。中方還要求馬方以統一渠道及時發布權威、具體信息。郭少春并向馬方轉交了中國乘客家屬要求清單。
3月8日淩晨在南海上空與地面失去聯絡的馬來西亞客機直到12日仍未查明去向。得到的全是未確認消息，目前仍看不清整個事件的全貌。為什麼搜索工作遲遲沒有進展呢？
從開始搜索已經過去了幾天。有什麼進展嗎？
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為什麼直到現在仍未發現呢？
最大原因是接收不到從機體發出的遇難信號。飛機上裝有救生無線，一受到強烈衝擊就會自動工作。由於接收不到這一信號，所以無法確定機體位置。
最初以飛機在雷達上消失時所處的馬來半島東側為中心進行搜索，但現在已大幅擴大搜索範圍。空管雷達在3月8日淩晨1點30分最後一次確認到機體。但在12 日的記者會上又透露隨後軍方雷達在馬來半島西側捕捉到似乎是飛機的目標。民間與軍方的信息混雜交錯，沒有集中搜索範圍。
8日淩晨究竟發生了什麼？
現在説不清楚。航空專家對於突然中斷與空管的通信感到疑惑。許多觀點認為是由於突然爆炸而導致機長來不及進行緊急通信。由此懷疑是使用爆炸物製造的恐怖活 動。但也有專家提出由於機械問題而導致故障的可能。無論哪種情況，「只有找到機體並進行分析之後才能得到結論」（馬來西亞代理交通部長希沙姆丁）。
存在恐怖襲擊的可能嗎？
目前尚未有人聲明對此負責，使用失竊護照登機的乘客也似乎與恐怖組織沒有關係。但馬來西亞政府仍維持「不排除恐怖襲擊可能」的姿態。
另外還存在劫機等犯罪行為的可能。現已得知，該機副機長以往曾邀請女乘客進入過駕駛室。這一行為明顯違反規定，表明該公司的安全管理制度存在問題。
（吉田涉 吉隆坡）
到3月12日，已有至少10個國家和地區的42艘艦船和39架飛機正在參與搜索馬航失聯客機的行動。這一局面除了顯示出國際社會相互協作的一面外，也暗含著對南海具有主權或利益意識的各國各地區的複雜用心。
由於失聯客機上載有150名以上中國公民，因此中國當日就派出包括登陸艦等4艘艦艇在內的8艘船舶到達現場海域展開搜索活動。此外中國國防部還緊急調
動10顆衛星，通過收集圖像和提供氣象信息來支援搜索活動。除了向強調高度重視人民的生命和安全外，還可以展現中國擁有在南海部署艦艇的能力。
越南也根據總理阮晉勇的指示迅速向現場海域派出了艦船和空軍飛機。美國擔心中國擴大影響力的也派出軍艦參與搜救。在其他海域主張主權的菲律賓和台灣也在參與搜索活動。試圖對中國進行牽制的印度預計也將從12日起參與搜索行動。
各相關國家和地區似乎都在搜索的「藉口」之下，隱藏著在南海積累實踐經驗的動機。
與此同時，日本政府決定按照《國際緊急援助隊派遣法》派出航空自衛隊C130運輸機，並已于3月12日從那霸基地出發，13日淩晨抵達馬來西亞首都吉隆坡附近，當天就開始參與搜索活動。另外，日本海上保安廳也宣佈將向當地派出一架所屬飛機。
對於日本的舉動，中國外交部發言人秦剛表示，中方對每一個參與搜救的國家都表示感謝。中國很少對日本自衛隊在海外的行動給予積極評價。
（山田周平 北京、伊藤學 河內報導）
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越南也根據總理阮晉勇的指示迅速向現場海域派出了艦船和空軍飛機。美國擔心中國擴大影響力的也派出軍艦參與搜救。在其他海域主張主權的菲律賓和台灣也在參與搜索活動。試圖對中國進行牽制的印度預計也將從12日起參與搜索行動。
各相關國家和地區似乎都在搜索的「藉口」之下，隱藏著在南海積累實踐經驗的動機。
與此同時，日本政府決定按照《國際緊急援助隊派遣法》派出航空自衛隊C130運輸機，並已于3月12日從那霸基地出發，13日淩晨抵達馬來西亞首都吉隆坡附近，當天就開始參與搜索活動。另外，日本海上保安廳也宣佈將向當地派出一架所屬飛機。
對於日本的舉動，中國外交部發言人秦剛表示，中方對每一個參與搜救的國家都表示感謝。中國很少對日本自衛隊在海外的行動給予積極評價。
（山田周平 北京、伊藤學 河內報導）
