Search MH370 most expensive in the history of flight

Search MH370 most expensive in the history of flight

Search and investigation of missing aircraft numbered owned Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which so far has spent $ 53 million ( Rp598 , 9 billion ) is the most expensive in the history of flight , such as written reports Fairfax Media Sydney Morning Herald .

Previously the most expensive is the best search Air France Flight 447 which crashed in the Atlantic Ocean , which cost 50 million U.S. dollars ( Rp565 billion ) .

However, funds amounting to 50 million U.S. dollars to find the Air France 447 was used for two -year search , while 53 million U.S. dollars for the MH370 is up in four weeks .

The cost to operate the largest warships , satellites , aircraft and submarines , the first time in the South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca , and in remote locations in the southern Indian Ocean .

For example , to operate a warship HMAS Success , Royal Australian Navy issued 550 thousand U.S. dollars ( Rp 6 , 2 billion ) per day operation , while the daily fare for HMAS Toowoomba operation reached 380 thousand U.S. dollars ( Rp 4 , 2 billion ) . When combined , these two battleships had swallowed operating costs of U.S. $ 10 million ( Rp113 billion ) .

Meanwhile , the United States has issued 3.6 million U.S. dollars ( Rp40 , 68 billion ) just for deploying ping location finder producer ( pinger locator ) and an unmanned submarine .

According to the Pentagon , the U.S. also issued 3.3 million U.S. dollars ( Rp37 , 29 billion ) to finance the operation of ships and planes .

Vietnam has issued $ 8 million ( Rp90 , 4 billion ) to search in the South China Sea .

Meanwhile a total of 12 aircraft were deployed every day to look for MH370 .

According to Geoff Dell , air accident investigation expert at the University of Central Queensland , the costs required for the 10 hour flight sorties are 1 million U.S. dollars ( Rp11 , 3 billion ) per day , resulting in four weeks , the cost for operating these airplanes ( outside aircraft belonging to the U.S. ) is at least 25 million U.S. dollars ( Rp285 , 5 billion ) .

Not only for search operations , a total of 1.25 million U.S. dollars ( Rp14 , 125 billion ) has also been issued by the Malaysian government for 227 passengers insurance MH370 ( outside crew ) .

So , if calculated entirely with all the components in the search and investigation MH370 , for four weeks has been 53 million dollars spent on search -owned Malaysia Airlines plane lost in it, as Sydney Morning Herald .

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 poaching has been shifted to the underwater locator black box pings producer ( pinger locator ) has digelarkan today to find the plane's black box before the battery runs out .

Australia Former army chief Angus Houston said the two vessels operating in conjunction with the search zone equipped " wheels underwater search sophisticated enough " to search for the black box MH370 is vital to know what problems happened on MH370 .

Doors of opportunity to obtain flight data recorder quickly narrowed as battery black box will fade in a matter of days . If the battery runs out , then there will be no signal from the black box so that the black box MH370 will probably never be found .

" We are now getting close to the time when the battery box lid black out," said Angus Houston who heads the search MH370 Sydney Morning Herald quoted as saying .

Pinger locator loaned by the U.S. Navy was towed behind the ship belonging to the British Admiralty Hydrographic ADV Ocean Shield . This tool can detect black box pings emitted MH370 .

Besides pinger locator , Ocean Shield also carry unmanned submarine equipped with sonar devices and can dive to depths of 4,500 meters . This ship can also track the transmission of voice , while HMAS Perth will arrive in the area for four days to assist the operation .

Despite turning down the sea , the Marshal (ret ) Angus Houston said the aerial search will not be reduced .

Today ten military aircraft , four jets and nine civilian ships combing the search area the size of the state of Victoria in Australia , and is located 1,700 km to the southwest of the Perth , so Sydney Morning Herald