Ministers: MH370 search may take another year
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BEIJING — The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared without trace more than a year ago, may take another year to complete, government ministers said Thursday.
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Malaysia Airlines MH370 disappeared without a trace more than a year ago. Government ministers said if the plane is not found by May, the search zone in the Indian Ocean will expand by another 60,000 square kilometers. VPC
BEIJING — The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared without a trace more than a year ago, may take another year to complete, government ministers said Thursday.
An agreement was made to double the current search zone in the Indian Ocean if the plane is not found by the end of May.
Relatives of missing Chinese passengers, who formed the majority of the 239 passengers and crew on board the Beijing-bound flight, welcomed the proposed expansion of the search area. Some had feared the search would scale down if no evidence was found in the zone identified by satellite analysis as the plane's most likely location.
After a meeting in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital from which MH370 took off, ministers from Malaysia, Australia and China vowed to extend the search zone from the current 23,000 square miles to a wider area of 46,000 square miles off the west coast of Australia.
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The plane vanished within one hour of takeoff on March 8, 2014.
Satellite and radar analysis suggests it veered off course and turned south for several hours before running out of fuel. An underwater search first mapped, then began scouring the previously uncharted sea bed for evidence. Investigators have found submarine volcanoes, high ridges, deep trenches and containers from cargo ships, but no debris from the Boeing 777 plane.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai, center, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss, left, and Chinese Transport Minister Yang Chuantang during a joint press conference on the next steps in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. (Photo: Ahmad Yusni, EPA)
The search has covered about 60% of the current search zone and is expected to conclude next month. If MH370 remains missing, the search area will double to "cover the entire highest probability area identified by expert analysis," said Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss and Chinese Transport Minister Yang Chuantang in a statement.
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Search beacon battery had expired on Flight 370
Beijing railway worker Zhang Hongjie, whose wife Zheng Ruixian, an insurance saleswoman, was on board, welcomed the agreement on expanding the search.
"I saw a trace of hope. It's the first time after the accident I felt a little relieved," said Zhang, 45. "I'm looking forward to progress in their search. As a relative, we could do nothing but wait. I wish every party could do more to search for the plane. Such a long time has passed."
Many Chinese relatives have expressed anger at a perceived lack of information and transparency from the airline and Malaysian authorities during the past year. Some suspect an official cover-up lies behind one of aviation's greatest mysteries.
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"I think they were searching in the wrong place before, I wish the three countries could collaborate to do more to search for the plane," said Li Xinmao, 57, whose daughter was on the flight. Despite the passage of time, Li retains hope. "I believe my daughter is still alive somewhere," he said.
Contributing: Sunny Yang
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Malaysia Airlines MH370 disappeared without a trace more than a year ago. Government ministers said if the plane is not found by May, the search zone in the Indian Ocean will expand by another 60,000 square kilometers. VPC
BEIJING — The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared without a trace more than a year ago, may take another year to complete, government ministers said Thursday.
An agreement was made to double the current search zone in the Indian Ocean if the plane is not found by the end of May.
Relatives of missing Chinese passengers, who formed the majority of the 239 passengers and crew on board the Beijing-bound flight, welcomed the proposed expansion of the search area. Some had feared the search would scale down if no evidence was found in the zone identified by satellite analysis as the plane's most likely location.
After a meeting in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital from which MH370 took off, ministers from Malaysia, Australia and China vowed to extend the search zone from the current 23,000 square miles to a wider area of 46,000 square miles off the west coast of Australia.
USA TODAY
Malaysia declares Flight 370 disappearance an 'accident'
The plane vanished within one hour of takeoff on March 8, 2014.
Satellite and radar analysis suggests it veered off course and turned south for several hours before running out of fuel. An underwater search first mapped, then began scouring the previously uncharted sea bed for evidence. Investigators have found submarine volcanoes, high ridges, deep trenches and containers from cargo ships, but no debris from the Boeing 777 plane.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai, center, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss, left, and Chinese Transport Minister Yang Chuantang during a joint press conference on the next steps in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. (Photo: Ahmad Yusni, EPA)
The search has covered about 60% of the current search zone and is expected to conclude next month. If MH370 remains missing, the search area will double to "cover the entire highest probability area identified by expert analysis," said Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss and Chinese Transport Minister Yang Chuantang in a statement.
USA TODAY
Search beacon battery had expired on Flight 370
Beijing railway worker Zhang Hongjie, whose wife Zheng Ruixian, an insurance saleswoman, was on board, welcomed the agreement on expanding the search.
"I saw a trace of hope. It's the first time after the accident I felt a little relieved," said Zhang, 45. "I'm looking forward to progress in their search. As a relative, we could do nothing but wait. I wish every party could do more to search for the plane. Such a long time has passed."
Many Chinese relatives have expressed anger at a perceived lack of information and transparency from the airline and Malaysian authorities during the past year. Some suspect an official cover-up lies behind one of aviation's greatest mysteries.
USA TODAY
Malaysia seeks assistance in two plane disasters
"I think they were searching in the wrong place before, I wish the three countries could collaborate to do more to search for the plane," said Li Xinmao, 57, whose daughter was on the flight. Despite the passage of time, Li retains hope. "I believe my daughter is still alive somewhere," he said.
Contributing: Sunny Yang
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Egyptians risk lives eating this dangerous delicacy
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Laura Dean, GlobalPost 10:57 a.m. EDT April 15, 2015
CAIRO — Every year on the day of the spring festival Shem el-Nessim, Egyptians are rushed to the hospital after eating the traditional delicacy of fermented (sometimes rotten) fish, or fesikh.
The ancient holiday marking the new season falls every year on the day after Coptic Easter and is celebrated by Christians and Muslims. Shem el-Nessim means "smelling the Zephyrs," or smelling the breeze, in Arabic.
Fesikh — a gray mullet dried in the sun and fermented in salt for up to a year — is considered an essential part of the celebration, even though it can sometimes be deadly.
The way the fish is prepared leaves those who partake at risk of botulism. Every year the newspapers are full of stories of poisonings, despite calls from health officials for citizens to forgo the dish.
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This year, like every year, Egypt's Health Ministry issued a warning that advised Egyptians against eating fesikh.
"The way of preparing fesikh can be unsafe due to the lack of salt in the fish, and some people use dead fish floating on the sea surface," Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, spokesman for the Ministry of Health, said Monday.
The most recent figures show that two people died from eating fesikh in 2010, and the same number in 2009. In 1991, 18 people were killed after eating it.
Although there have been no reports of deaths so far this year, six people have already been hospitalized.
But for some, the risk is worth it. A long line formed Tuesday outside a shop in Cairo belonging to Hajj Mohamed, who has been selling fesikh in his neighborhood for as long as anyone can remember.
"I throw those warnings out the window," says Ezzat el Hennawi, a local schoolteacher. "I've bought my fesikh from him forever. He has a great health record. No one's gotten sick."
"Hajj Mohamed is famous, everybody buys from him," says Mumtaza Zaki, 50. She is buying her fesikh on the day after the holiday because she didn't have enough money on the day.
Shop owner Ehab el-Yamani, left, sells a fish dish known locally as fesikh to his customers on April 26, 2008, in Nabaroh, Egypt. (Photo: Khaled Desouki, AFP/Getty Images)
The delicacy costs 80 to 100 Egyptian pounds ($10-$13) for a kilogram (about 2.2 pounds), a lot of money for many Egyptians. She buys nearly $2 worth.
Public parks have been filled with families getting some fresh air and eating a concoction of fesikh, onion, lemon, lettuce and tahini — some people say the lemon and onion aid with digestion.
It's not to everyone's taste, however. This year on Twitter was awash with fesikh humor. One meme subbed the word fesikh into well-known movie titles (50 Shades of Fesikh, The Fesikh and the Furious). Others on Twitter bemoaned the fesikh smell in their houses and having to eat it with their families.
This article originally appeared on GlobalPost.
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