France Government Opens Investigation on missing MH370 Aircraft

French aviation authorities are to open a new investigation into the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, days after a report effectively cleared the pilots of any deliberate act to bring the plane down.

The French report said the SR-GTA wants to verify the accuracy or authenticity of the satellite "pings" and all original technical data provided by the British satellite communications company Inmarsat, reported Le Parisien.

It was Inmarsat that used communications between the plane and its satellite over several hours on the morning of 8 March 2014 to try to determine a possible crash site.