馬來西亞官方稱仍無失蹤航班線索

The official in charge of the hunt for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has declared its disappearance “an unprecedented missing aircraft mystery” and said tantalising leads reported at the weekend had evaporated.

主持馬來西亞航空(Malaysia Airlines) MH370航班搜尋工作的官員稱，該航班的失蹤是“前所未有的飛機失蹤之謎”，並表示上週末報道中提到的一些令人的線索已經消失。

“We have not found anything that appears to be objects from the aircraft let alone the aircraft,” Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director-general of Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation, said on Monday in Kuala Lumpur. “We will be intensifying our efforts to locate the aircraft.”

馬來西亞民航局(Department of Civil Aviation)總監拿督阿茲哈魯丁•阿卜杜勒•拉赫曼(Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman)週一在吉隆坡表示：“我們沒有發現任何看似來自該航班上的物體，更沒有發現該航班。我們將加倍努力找出它的位置。”

On Sunday, media reports said that a Vietnamese plane had spotted a possible door from flight MH370, which disappeared early Saturday morning en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew aboard. But ships could not reach the area before night fell and the object was not located when the search resumed at dawn.

上週六清晨，從吉隆坡飛往北京、載有239名乘客和機組人員的MH370航班失蹤。上週日媒體報道稱，一架越南飛機已經發現一件可能是MH370航班艙門的物體。但搜救船隻無法在入夜前趕到相關區域，次日清晨重啓搜救後未能找出該物體的所在位置。

“That report was not verified officially by the Vietnamese authorities,” Mr Azharuddin said. “The Vietnamese authorities confirmed that they had not spotted any such object.”

“該報道未得到越南當局的正式確認，”阿茲哈魯丁表示，“越南當局證實，他們沒有發現任何此類物體。”

He added that an object resembling the aircraft’s tail had in fact turned out to be flotsam. “We need concrete evidence. We need parts of the aircraft to do a forensic study.”

他補充稱，一件外觀類似飛機機尾的物體最終被查明是船隻殘骸。“我們需要確鑿的證據。我們需要找到該航班的部件，才能展開法證研究。”

Malaysia Airlines’ shares fell as much as 20 per cent on Monday morning.

週一早盤，馬航股價下跌了至多20%。

Investigators are also looking into the backgrounds of two men who flew on stolen Italian and Austrian passports, and are reviewing CCTV footage of them at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

調查人員還在研究持偷來的意大利和奧地利護照登機的兩名男子有何背景，並查閱吉隆坡國際機場(Kuala Lumpur International Airport)有關這兩人的閉路電視監控畫面。

Mr Azharuddin said that all checked luggage on the flight had been properly screened by X-ray equipment, while bags belonging to five people who did not board the aircraft were removed before it took off. “The security at KLIA already complies with international standards,” he said.

阿茲哈魯丁表示，航班的所有托運行李均經過X光設備的妥善掃描，而5名未登機旅客的行李已在起飛前被卸下。他說：“吉隆坡國際機場的安檢是符合國際標準的。”

He added said that more than 30 aircraft and 40 ships from eight countries are now involved in the search, which initially focused on a 50 mile radius around the position where the plane disappeared and has since expanded. Samples of an oil slick found in waters between Malaysia and Vietnam are being tested to confirm if it came from the aircraft.

他接着表示，目前有來自8個國家的逾30架飛機和40艘船隻參與搜尋，搜尋最初集中在飛機失聯位置周圍50英里的區域，但之後搜尋範圍已經擴大。在馬來西亞和越南之間水域發現的浮油樣本已經送檢，以確定是否來自該航班。

“For the aircraft to just go missing like that, there are many theories,” Mr Azharuddin said. “We are equally puzzled as well.”

“對於該航班以這樣一種方式失蹤，目前有很多揣測，”阿茲哈魯丁表示，“我們也很困惑。”

Investigators are also examining the possibility, first raised by Malaysia’s defence minister on Sunday, that the aircraft may have turned back towards Kuala Lumpur before disappearing.

此前，馬來西亞國防部長上週日稱，該客機失蹤前可能已掉頭飛向吉隆坡。調查人員正在檢驗這種可能性。

Malaysian authorities will be meeting with specialists from the US Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board. Australian and British aviation authorities have also offered help in the investigation.

馬來西亞當局將會晤來自美國聯邦航空管理局(US Federal Aviation Administration)和美國國家運輸安全委員會(US National Transportation Safety Board)的專家。澳大利亞和英國的航空管理部門也幫忙協助調查。