News: I will believe when I see the proof: Son of MH370 pilot breaks silence

The youngest son of the pilot of the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has broken his silence by defending his father. He, like hundreds of other families of passengers onboard the missing flight, is clinging on to hope that his father Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and other passengers may somehow have had a miraculous escape.
“I will believe it (that there are no survivors) when I see the proof in front of my eyes,” Ahmed Seth told the New Strait Times.
“I know my father better,” the NST quotes him as saying when asked about the wild theories floating about his father’s involvement in the plane’s disappearance. “I’ve read everything online. But I’ve ignored all the speculation. I know my father better,” he said.

Ahmed was comforted by his friends on Monday when Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced that the authorities had concluded that the missing aircraft had ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
Seth said he wasn’t surprised by the PM’s announcement, but was clinging on to a glimmer of hope in the absence of concrete physical proof.
“Now, we are just waiting for the right confirmation (for the wreckage or bodies),” he said.
Amon the pilot’s other children, his oldest child Ahmad Idris has made several comments on social media, thanking everyone for their support.
His daughter, Aishah Zaharie lives in Melbourne and has returned to Kuala Lumpur to be with her mother and family members.

Meanwhile, search operations for Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean have once again been hampered by bad weather this morning.
Search operations have been suspended today, andthe Australian Maritime Safety Authority says all planes are returning to Perth and ships are leaving the search zone, about 2,500 kilometres southwest of Perth.

News Update: Missing Malaysian Plane: 7 pings and satellite 'handshake'… Final proof MH370 crashed in sea?

Britain's Inmarsat used a wave phenomenon discovered in the nineteenth century to analyse the seven pings its satellite picked up from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 to determine its final destination.
The new findings led Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to conclude on Monday that the Boeing 777, which disappeared more than two weeks ago, crashed thousands of miles away in the southern Indian Ocean, killing all 239 people on board.
The pings, automatically transmitted every hour from the aircraft after the rest of its communications systems had stopped, indicated it continued flying for hours after it disappeared from its flight path from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
From the time the signals took to reach the satellite and the angle of elevation, Inmarsat was able to provide two arcs, one north and one south that the aircraft could have taken.
Inmarsat's scientists then interrogated the faint pings using a technique based on the Doppler effect, which describes how a wave changes frequency relative to the movement of an observer, in this case the satellite, a spokesman said.

Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch was also involved in the analysis.
The Doppler effect is why the sound of a police car siren changes as it approaches and then overtakes an observer.
"We then took the data we had from the aircraft and plotted it against the two tracks, and it came out as following the southern track," Jonathan Sinnatt, head of corporate communications at Inmarsat, said.
The company then compared its theoretical flight path with data received from Boeing 777s it knew had flown the same route, he said, and it matched exactly.
The findings were passed to another satellite company to check, he said, before being released to investigators on Monday.
The paucity of data - only faint pings received by a single satellite every hour or so - meant techniques like triangulation using a number of satellites or GPS (Global Positioning System) could not be used to determine the aircraft's flight path.