Puing Terduga MH370 Tengah Diteliti Kapal Norwegia
Norwegian Ship `Reaches Area of Suspected Malaysian Plane Debris`s
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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Oslo (B2B) - Sebuah kapal Norwegia sudah mencapai sebuah area di Samudera Hindia di mana kemungkinan puing-puing pesawat hilang Malaysia Airline Penerbangan MH370 yang tertangkap satelit berada, kata perusahaan pelayaran Hoegh Autoliners seperti dikutip AFP.
"Kapal itu telah tiba di situs itu untuk ambil bagian dalam pencarian," kata Cecilie Moe, juru bicara perusahan Norwegia itu.
Untuk sementara tidak ada objek yang diduga sisa MH370 yang tertemukan, kata Christian Dahll, juga dari Hoegh Autoliners, seperti dilansir Yahoo News.
Dahll menambahkan pintu pencarian terbatas karena matahari terbenam pada pukul 13.00 GMT (20.00 WIB).
"Kapal itu akan berlayar menyusuri sebuah rute yang disediakan otoritas Australia sampai menjelang malam," kata dia. "Setelah itu kami akan menilai situasinya bersama pihak berwenang Australia."
Sturla Henriksen, direktur jenderal Asosiasi Pemilik Kapal Norwegia, mengatakan bahwa area pencarian diperluas sampai sejauh 60 mil laut atau sekitar 100 kilometer.
Kapal bernama St. Petersburg itu akan berlayar "bolak balik (di sepanjang rute itu) dengan harapan menemukan apa yang sudah diidentifikasi sebagai puing-puing tersebut," kata Henriksen kepada radio Norwegia NRK, seraya menambahkan bahwa kapal itu tidak punya kapastias untuk menarik objek-objek tersebut dari lautan.
Kapal itu tengah dalam perjalanan dari Port Louis di Mauritius menuju Melbourne, saat diminta pihak berwenang Australia untuk mengubah rutenya demi mengidentifikasi puing-puing yang ditangkap satelit di Samudera Hindia sebelah selatan.
Setelah dua pekan diliputi oleh petunjuk-petunjuk yang salah, Australia menghidupkan kembali optimisme penyelidikan atas hilang misteriusnya MH370 ketika mengumumkan berhasil mendeteksi dua objek di Samudera Hindia bagian selatan yang jaraknya sekitar 2.500 kilometer dari Perth di Australia barat.
Oslo - A Norwegian ship on Thursday reached an area of the Indian Ocean where possible debris of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was spotted, shipping company Hoegh Autoliners said.
"The ship has arrived at the site to take part in the search," said Cecilie Moe, spokeswoman for the Norwegian company.
No object likely to have come from flight MH370 has been recovered at this stage, said Christian Dahll, another spokesperson for Hoegh Autoliners.
Dahll added that the search window for Thursday was limited since sunset was at around 1300 GMT.
"The ship will travel along a route provided by Australian authorities until nightfall," he told AFP.
"After that, we will assess the situation with the Australian authorities."
Sturla Henriksen, director general of the Norwegian Shipowners´ Association, said that the search area extends over a distance of "60 nautical miles, around 100 kilometres".
The St. Petersburg, a vehicles carrier, will travel "back and forth (along the route) in the hope of finding what has been identified as debris", Henriksen told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, adding that the ship does not have any capacity to retrieve objects from the sea.
The vessel was on its way from Port Louis in Mauritius to the Australian city of Melbourne, when it was requested by the Australian authorities to reroute in order to identify debris spotted by satellite in the southern Indian Ocean.
After two weeks of false leads, Australia revived the investigation on the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370 when it announced the detection of two "objects" in the southern Indian Ocean, some 2,500 kilometres (1,553 miles) southwest of Perth in western Australia.
