RCI on MH370?

KUALA LUMPUR: Will a Royal Commission of Inquiry or a Parliamentary Select Committee be set up on the MH370 disaster?
Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin was non-committal today on the matter, saying that he is not in a position to make a decision.
He said the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) has set up its own inquiry while the Transport Ministry is also looking into setting up an inquiry board of its own.
He told reporters that Malaysia will press on in the search for MH370, even if other countries involved in the search and rescue operations eventually pull out.
"Of course, we will keep looking for the aircraft, and we will rely on the expertise of the French investigations team. I met with them today to discuss the challenges they faced when it took them two years to recover Air France flight 447's black-box," he told the press.
Flight 447 stalled and crashed in the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, killing all 228 passengers and crew on board. It took authorities two years to locate the plane's black-box, hampering investigations.
Hishammuddin said he understands that the increasingly agitated Chinese families require closure, but it would be difficult to provide them with answers until debris from the aircraft is found.
He assured that the Malaysian government and the multi-national search teams are doing everything they can to locate the debris field in southern Indian Ocean.
"We will do whatever it takes, when the weather clears, the search will continue. And if we can confirm it is from MH370, then we can answer that question," he said.
Meanwhile, Malaysia Airlines chief executive officer Datuk Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said the calculations which led to the announcement that MH370 crashed into the Indian Ocean will be released to the Chinese families to help them understand how the conclusion was formed.
"The flight's last known general location is in the middle of the Indian Ocean, and by that time, it would have very little fuel left to reach land mass, which is very far away. It is reasonable to conclude that it went down in the sea.
"It has also been 18 days, for anyone to survive that long in the Indian Ocean, is extremely remote," he said.