More on the Strange Behavior of the Malaysian Government and Military with respect to Maylaysian Airlines flight 370: Flight 370 was detected by three different Malaysian military radars, at three different locations, monitored by three different radar observer crews, as the airplane flew from east to west across Malaysia, but the radar operators on duty never noticed it and did not order Malaysian military jets to scramble and intercept the airplane. It is true that the airplanes transponder had already been turned off, so the radar indication was an unidentified blip on the radar screens, but that blip was not associated with any known airplane flight plan. These radar operators were really asleep at the switch. During this time, the Malaysian government had indicated to all the countries searching for the plane that they should be searching in the Gulf of Thailand, the waters to the east of Malaysia, despite the fact that the radar blip showed that an unidentified airplane was flying to the west, away from the Gulf of Thailand and into the Strait of Malacaa, to the west of Malaysia. Also, senior Malaysian military officers were fully aware of this radar data during the first week of fruitless searching but the information was only released by the prime minister of Malaysia after the radar data and its significance was widely reported in the media. Malaysia has been eerily and disturbingly defensive about these developments. “The fact that it flew straight over Malaysia, without the Malaysian military identifying it, is just plain weird — not just weird, but also very damning and tragic,” said David Learmount, the operations and safety editor for Flightglobal, a news and data service for the aviation sector. As much as we hear criticism all the time about the alleged incompetence of the American government and governmental agencies, this incident shows how competent our own American N.T.S.B. (National Transportation Safety Board) is when it comes to investigating airline crashes. America has lots it can improve, but theres also a lot RIGHT about America. For a fuller analysis of the radar information debacle, see this article...nytimes/2014/03/16/world/asia/series-of-errors-by-malaysia-mounts-complicating-the-task-of-finding-flight-370.html?hp
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 20:06:44 +0000
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