Roundup: Australia still seeking answers on 2nd anniv. of MH370 disappearance  

On the second anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, an Australian minister said authorities are still committed to the search and desperately trying to solve the mystery that has baffled the world.

Australia's Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester said on Tuesday that although two years have passed since the Boeing 777 went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, Australia has not "forgotten" its responsibility to the victims' loved ones.

Chester said the Australian search effort in the southern Indian Ocean, which investigators have determined as the most likely resting place for the jet, remained the best hope of giving the families closure.

"Finding the aircraft would give answers to the world, in particular the families of missing loved ones, about what happened," Chester said in a press release on Tuesday.

MH370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, was carrying 239 people, most of whom were Chinese nationals.

"A tragedy such as MH370 touches people from all over the world and today we are united in remembering all 239 people who were on the flight," Chester said.

"We owe it to their memory, and to the loved ones who mourn them, to honor the undertaking to complete the search of the area experts have determined as most likely to contain the missing aircraft."

Chester also gave an update on the state of the search.

"We have completed around 90,000 square kilometers of the 120,000 square kilometer search zone. Our vessels are at sea for a month at a time in the search zone using sonar and underwater technologies to search the ocean floor reaching depths of 6,000 meters," he said on Tuesday.

"As we search the remaining 30,000 square kilometer zone in the days and months ahead, Australia, Malaysia and the People's Republic of China remain hopeful the aircraft will be found."

A piece of debris, a flaperon, that washed ashore on Reunion Island last year is the only confirmed proof that the plane crash landed.

Last week, two more potential parts of the plane's wreckage were also uncovered. The first item was located off the coast of the east African nation of Mozambique, and another metallic, plane-like structure was again picked on a Reunion Island beach. Both are yet to be confirmed by aviation investigators.

The group tasked with the Australian search for MH370, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC), said it was still working on a plan to transfer the Mozambique discovery to its Australian office.

"Officials from Australia, Malaysia and Mozambique are currently considering arrangements for the transfer of the debris to Australia. An estimated time of arrival is not known," JACC spokesman Scott Mashford said on Tuesday.

"The JACC is aware of reports of further debris being found on La Reunion.

"The Malaysian Government has responsibility for the investigation into the disappearance of MH370 and has procedures in place to examine suspected debris. We are awaiting the outcome of their examination."

But speaking to Melbourne radio on Tuesday, Australian airline captain Byron Bailey reaffirmed his belief that the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) was going about the search the wrong way.

The aviation expert said the group needed to totally re-explore the "rogue pilot" theory, the idea that the flight was deliberately hijacked.

The ATSB has totally rejected that theory instead basing its entire search on the "ghost flight" model, which proposes that the pilots became unconscious and the plane eventually lost attitude after running out of fuel.

On Tuesday, Malaysian Prime Minster Najib Razak said that if the Australian search yielded no results, his government would meet with Australian and Chinese officials to "determine the way forward." Endit