MH370: US taking back seat in MH370 inquiry, says New York Times

The best information about the missing flight MH370 is probably in the hands of American officials who are in Malaysia assisting the investigation but they are keeping mum, the New York Times reported.

In a twist, some of the world's foremost experts on crash investigations, radar and the inner workings of the Boeing 777-200ER are in but they are here – technically – only to assist Putrajaya.

The paper, however, said they were “being scrupulously low-key”.

If a similar event happened in the United States, they would be gathering information from different parties and knitting it togKuala Lumpur ether into a progress report.

But in the case of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, the Americans had not assumed such a role. It said information was dribbling out, sometimes in contradictory fashion, from the government, the airline and the military. – March 14, 2014