Inspector Clueless! Malaysian police chief admits he does not know where missing plane is

THE bungling Malaysian police chief leading the hunt for missing Flight MH370 admitted yesterday he does not have a clue where the plane is.

And he told stunned relatives of the 239 people aboard the Boeing 777 jet, which vanished nearly four weeks ago: “We may never know what happened to them.” Baffled Inspector Khalid Abu Bakar said: “We have to be very thorough and need time. "You can’t hurry us. "But at the end of the investigations, we may not even know the real cause. "We may never know.” One possibility is that the Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines plane suffered a devastating fire or other mechanical failure. “At the end of the investigations, we may not even know the real cause” Inspector Khalid Abu Bakar But there is also speculation it may have fallen victim to a terrorist attack or been hijacked by a crazed passenger or crew member. And yesterday there was a new theory that a bomb could have been smuggled aboard in a crate of fruit. Police are investigating who ordered four tons of mangosteen, paid for them and packed them. British survey ship HMS Echo has now joined UK sub HMS Tireless searching the vast Southern Indian Ocean, 1,000 miles off Western Australia. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott called it “one of the great mysteries of our time”. He said: “We owe it to the world, we owe it to the families, to do what we can to get to the bottom of this.”