Akhbar antarabangsa -
ABC NEWS melaporkan bahawa Anwar telah mengutuk dan 'jijik' dengan dakwaan kononnya juruterbang yang mengendalikan pesawat Malaysia Airlines MH370 'menyembunyikan' pesawat tersebut kerana kecewa Anwar dipenjarakan.
Tetapi, kenapa Anwar perlu salahkan Kerajaan Malaysia? Dia mendakwa bahawa kehilangan MH370 ini adalah kerana Kerajaan Malaysia tidak cekap dan tidak bertanggungjawab?
Hakikatnya, Kerajaan Malaysia bertungkus-lumus dalam misi pencarian pesawat ini, dan kini sudah 26 negara keseluruhannya turut bekerjasama dalam misi pencarian (Ops SAR) yang diketuai oleh Malaysia.
Kini pencarian tertumpu pada dua koridor utama, baca dibawah:
Negara-negara yang terlibat dalam operasi mencari dan menyelamat (SAR) pesawat Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370 telah menggerakkan aset masing-masing untuk menjejaki pesawat itu di kawasan yangsangat luas meliputi 2.24 juta batu nautika persegi.
Kawasan itu merupakan dimensi antarabangsa meliputi Koridor Utara dan Koridor Selatan yang dibahagikan kepada tujuh kuadran dengan setiap kawasan kuadran mempunyai keluasan kira-kira 160,000 batu nautika persegi.
Misi pencarian diselaraskan oleh Malaysia tetapi rakan-rakan kami telah memainkan peranan penting dalam menguruskan dan menjalankan operasi, dalam kawasan mereka sendiri dan di sektor pencarian yang telah dipersetujui.
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Malaysia Airlines MH370: Anwar Ibrahim 'disgusted' by speculation over missing plane's pilot
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has condemned speculation that the captain of a missing Malaysian airliner - a member of his party and a distant relative - may have had political motives to sabotage the plane.
Describing Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah as a "decent man", Ibrahim said he was "disgusted" by what he saw as an attempt to smear the pilot and somehow implicate the opposition leadership in the March 8 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein blamed the speculation on foreign media reports and insisted that the search for the missing plane was "above politics".
The investigative spotlight has focused on Mr Shah and his co-pilot, Fariq Abdul Hamid, since it became increasingly clear that the plane was deliberately diverted from its intended flight path to Beijing by someone on board.
Multiple media reports have noted the 53-year-old Mr Shah, who worked for the airline since 1981, was an active member of Ibrahim's Parti Keadilan Rakyat (People's Justice Party), and some have suggested he might have sabotaged the flight as an act of political revenge.
In a highly controversial case, Ibrahim was convicted of sodomy - illegal in Muslim Malaysia - just hours before MH370 took off.
He was sentenced to five years in jail but is free pending an appeal.
A Keadilan party official confirmed press reports that Mr Shah was actually a "distant relative" of Ibrahim's daughter-in-law.
"Is it a crime for anyone to be a member of Keadilan? To me it is an attempt to deflect the government's incompetence," Ibrahim said.
"I of course did not take the news reports seriously, but I am speaking out because I sympathise with the pilot and his family.
"The mysterious disappearance of MH370 reflects not only an incompetent regime ruling the country, but an irresponsible government."
The Malaysian authorities have had to defend themselves against repeated accusations that they withheld key information during the early stages of the search for the missing aircraft.
The search has now been expanded to an area of 7.7 million square kilometres, larger than the land mass of Australia.
Australia is coordinating one of the searches in a zone 3,000 south-west of Perth.
