One of the strangest things about MH370 was the insistence of the government of Malaysia in the wasting of search resources over a South China Sea search when it knew on the morning of its disappearance that the flight had recrossed the Malaysia Peninsula to the north of the entrance of the Straits of Malacca.
There are several reasonable observations to be made about reports in Indonesia that the ‘truth’ about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is known at a senior level in its police force.
But first, the report.
It says in effect, “we know what happened but are reluctant to say what that was.” Which in the courteous secrecy of much commentary in SE Asia, means “we’re not going to embarrass the neighbours, but they are on notice that we know.”
If we take note of the context in which the police official spoke, it was to urge Indonesia’s fastest growing (and scariest) airline Lion to invest in experienced, trusted, knowledgeable and presumably incorruptible police and security officials to prevent criminal acts against its operations.
However we also need to be extremely cautious and non-commital as to whether the official really does know what happened to MH370, a Boeing 777-200ER with 239 people on board, that took off from Kuala Lumpur on 8 March for Beijing and disappeared as a transponder identified flight some 40 minutes after departure on a five hours 50 minute gate-to-gate trip.
Satellite data indicates that it flew for at least seven hours 38 minutes, and came down in the southern India Ocean, about 1800 kms southwest to west of Perth, where a very well equipped deep sea search is about to deploy towed side scanning sonar devices following the recent mapping of the ‘priority areas’ by bathymetric surveys.
MH370 may have crossed the northern tip of Sumatra near Banda Aceh on its way to southern oceanic oblivion. It should have been visible as a primary object on Indonesian military radar. It could have been visible to Australia’s JORN long range radar, which was invented for the sole purpose of studying aircraft movements between much of Indonesia and Australia.
15/09/14 Malaysia Chronicle
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There are several reasonable observations to be made about reports in Indonesia that the ‘truth’ about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is known at a senior level in its police force.
But first, the report.
It says in effect, “we know what happened but are reluctant to say what that was.” Which in the courteous secrecy of much commentary in SE Asia, means “we’re not going to embarrass the neighbours, but they are on notice that we know.”
If we take note of the context in which the police official spoke, it was to urge Indonesia’s fastest growing (and scariest) airline Lion to invest in experienced, trusted, knowledgeable and presumably incorruptible police and security officials to prevent criminal acts against its operations.
However we also need to be extremely cautious and non-commital as to whether the official really does know what happened to MH370, a Boeing 777-200ER with 239 people on board, that took off from Kuala Lumpur on 8 March for Beijing and disappeared as a transponder identified flight some 40 minutes after departure on a five hours 50 minute gate-to-gate trip.
Satellite data indicates that it flew for at least seven hours 38 minutes, and came down in the southern India Ocean, about 1800 kms southwest to west of Perth, where a very well equipped deep sea search is about to deploy towed side scanning sonar devices following the recent mapping of the ‘priority areas’ by bathymetric surveys.
MH370 may have crossed the northern tip of Sumatra near Banda Aceh on its way to southern oceanic oblivion. It should have been visible as a primary object on Indonesian military radar. It could have been visible to Australia’s JORN long range radar, which was invented for the sole purpose of studying aircraft movements between much of Indonesia and Australia.
15/09/14 Malaysia Chronicle
