ISLAMABAD: Satellite data from the hunt for the missing Malaysian plane will be released to narrow down the search, the Malaysian government said.
The Malaysian Department of Civil Aviation made the announcement in a joint statement with British satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat, Press TV reported.
"All parties are working for the release of the data communication logs and the technical description of the analysis for public consumption," read the statement without mentioning when the information would be available.
The announcement came after family members of the 239 victims of the missing flight MH370 demanded that raw satellite data be made public for independent scrutiny.
The statement said the data was one of several elements investigated during the hunt.
Meanwhile, Nigel Cawthorne, the author of the book "Flight MH370: The Mystery," told Press TV that the United States might have accidentally shot down the plane.
"It is quite plausible that they shot down this flight," Cawthorne said, referring to observations by a New Zealander worker and the Vietnamese air force's discovery of some wreckage, "which was later discounted as debris from the missing flight."
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, vanished from radar screens early on March 8, less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur on a scheduled flight to Beijing.
After a vast and costly search in 4.64 million square kilometers (1.79 million square miles) of the southern Indian Ocean, the hunt was scaled backed as nothing was spotted.
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