The government should present a white paper to Parliament on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to avoid a similar crisis in future, DAP urged today.

Kluang MP Liew Chin Tong said the Transport Minister must do so to explain the international search mission and its costs, and study what changes need to take place.

"A White Paper to Parliament is especially important in view of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal on May 13, 2014, in which he conceded that 'we didn’t get everything right'.

"The Government must be more open about what actually went wrong on the fateful day of March 8 and how not to allow such incident to recur,” said Liew, the DAP National Political Education Director.

“A more candid and transparent approach will help revive confidence in Malaysian institutions," he added.

He pointed out that Australia treasurer Joe Hockey had recently announced that the Australian government allocated A$90 million (RM270 million) for the search of the missing jetliner for the next two years.

Aside from a white paper, Liew echoed the call from others for a parliamentary select committee (PSC) to investigate the incident thoroughly.

“Najib doesn’t inspire confidence when he tells the world that 'nobody saw this coming, nobody knows why it happened, and nobody precisely where it is'."

Liew said it was pathetic that the Prime Minister seemed to think that apart from response time, the only thing that went wrong was "communication".

Previously, DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang had asked for an international parliamentary inquiry on the Malaysia Airlines tragedy as he argued this was an international tragedy.

The Beijing-bound flight with 239 on-board disappeared from radar screens on March 8 less than an hour after take off.

The international search for the missing jetliner has proven fruitless so far.