[Kharon]

Comments from Ben Sandilands blog - Comet #5.

Other countries, including Australia, would have done their best to track it. Ships at sea would have been alerted. Australia might have despatched some RAAF Orions in the vicinity. 

Satellites would have been redirected while MH370 was still in flight.

A lot could have been done in those initial hours when the 777 was still in the air.

Amen to that.   I keep trying to define where, exactly, the aircraft was initially 'lost'.  This is frustrating as it is almost impossible to string three consecutive 'facts' in chain: the appalling lack of information about the ATCO and the 'hand off' is, for me, one of the pivotal elements.  For if we cannot establish what transpired before, during and after the IGARI transfer; to know exactly where the journey began, then how can we properly deduce where the aircraft finished it's journey.

See here - Fast_asleep.

Was MH 370 the last traffic for the sector? – if it was then is it reasonable to assume that coffee was made, feet were parked on consoles, the crossword was opened, and perhaps there was a natural break for the ATCO working and a change over or 'combined' watch was maintained.  I can easily imagine it.  Then there is the ATCO 'catching' the aircraft, he would have little or nothing to do – the 'blip' was where it should be, routine flight, other duties to distract; so no immediate 'alarm bells'.  The real uncertainty starts right there; the rest is speculation.

If we are to accept that a criminal act was committed, and I feel we should; then perhaps, it's during this period of silly O'clock hiatus that dastardly deeds were done.  I, for one would like to see the statements of all ATCO (both ends) who were on shift that night.  Some one, somehow, must have seen something; or, are we to believe naively the world was asleep at the wheel?  One shift not paying any attention is within the realms of credibility; but two, stretches the imagination a little too far.

Glen #12.
"The report also includes a detailed cargo manifest."

But how are we to be certain that what the manifest claims was on board was actually there?  With so much blatant muddying of the waters, producing a manifest 'to order' would be a simple exercise.  If Australian agencies such as CASA and the ATSB are prepared to go court with 'tricky' paper-work; there is no doubt that in order to feed the fires of confusion, a tricked up manifest could be produced.   Don't believe me though; just look at the unholy lengths the Australian agencies went to cover their arses on a 'simple' accident of a small aircraft and six people.

Nope, can't bet on any of it; not with my money.  Too much theory, conjecture, hyperbole and ego involved in this little puzzle; not enough nuts and bolts.  To find your way home, first, you must know where you are starting out from – how else?

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