In an interview with the German newsweekly Der Spiegel, Emirates Airline CEO Sir Tim promising to continue to ask questions and make a nuisance of myself, even as others would like to bury it.

As the search for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing Boeing 777-200 drags on, criticism of the official investigation by families and friends of the 239 onboard has only become more strident.

Clark notes that all the facts of this particular incident must be challenged and examined with full transparency. He is also adamant that we need to know who was on the plane in the detail; that obviously some people do know and notes that we need to know what was in the hold of the aircraft which disappeared March 8 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

MH 777 (Credit: Wikipedia)

For its part, the Dubai-based Emirates operates nine such Boeing 777-200s in its own fleet.

My own view is that probably control was taken of that airplane, Clark continues, noting that its anybodys guess who did what. every single second of that flight needs to be examined up until it, theoretically, ended up in the Indian Ocean for which they still havent found a trace, not even a seat cushion. We have not seen a single thing that suggests categorically that this aircraft is where they say it is, apart from this so-called electronic satellite handshake, which I question as well.

However, Clark does tell the German magazine that in his opinion, the flight was probably under human control until the very end.

Meanwhile, in an update published by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) earlier this week, reports its latest analyses indicate that the underwater search should be prioritized further south within the wide search area for the next phase of the search.

The update notes that this new analysis is the result of both re-examination of satellite to aircraft communications data and an unanswered ground-to-air telephone call 17 minutes after [MH370s] last radar information.

The new data indicate at the time of last satellite contact, the planes fuel was likely near exhaustion and the flight may have already been descending.

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MH370 Investigation Needs Shakeup, Says Emirates Airline CEO