CBS News said that a search and rescue team led by a retired air chief marshall will be checking out one area in the Indian Ocean wherein a Chinese patrol vessel and an Australian boat picked up signals in the frequency the black boxes of the doomed Malaysia Airline Flight 370 plane were transmitting.
Malaysian acting Transport Minister Hihammuddin Hussein has said in a news conference on Friday that its government is now looking at the possibility of getting sued for compensation by families of the 239 passengers on board then-missing Malaysia Airline Flight 370, Xinhua News Agency said.
Chicago-based firm Ribbeck Law Chartered has recently filed a petition to review records of Malaysian Airline System Bhd and Boeing Co about the missing plane on behalf of the estate of one of the plane's passengers, Businessweek said.
Bloomberg said that based on the Montreal Convention of 1999, families of the 227 passengers of Malaysian Air Flight 370 could seek over $40 million in damages regardless of the fact that the cause of the incident is unknown.
