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'Passing strange'??- Not a Muppet, a Mandarin, a Miniscule, nor a Hedley in sight"

Not really. Politicians and bureaucrats only like to take glory when the object is a 'sure thing'. They don't like chances. The change in the search location is still not a 'guaranteed win', so the bottom dwelling parasites in power won't be too quick to attach their names to the latest information. They will crawl out from under their Can'tberra rocks when the wreckage is found. There will be big press coverage, Farmer Truss will be lisping in front of the TV screen with Beaker and his resplendent beard glowing beneath the television lights. There will be hi-5's, backslapping and leg humping, with all kudos going to themselves. That's how the political vermin in society operate.

So don't worry, the Miniscule and his minions will make a carefully scripted appearance......just not yet.

You could well be right Gobbles... However the latest MH370 search shenanigans has a different feel about it, especially with the somewhat unexpected announcement of the Chinese contribution to the search i.e. a search ship & $20 million...

Also P7's observation is IMO quite significant:

...just needed an acceptable, credible journalist; ‘Iggins will do very nicely, we’ll have him.  OK; “X” marks the spot, here’s your press release, here’s your hero and here’s some pocket money – off you go Tiger – go get it.


But not me though– Oh no, I’ll just swallow it whole and say thank you.  All the ‘bit players’ ushered off stage pleases...

 I can kind of understand sidelining - the not so deadly - Hedley after the MH370 Maldives stuff up, but the aviation senior journo Creepy normally always gets the gig, especially when the Miniscule's department and/or CAsA want to obfuscate & shutdown a story.. 

Can't keep a good Muppet down..

Gobbles it should also be noted that later in the day our resident MH370 Super Sleuth Muppet did make an appearance to again set the record straight..

As hunt moves, pilot "fairly confident" MH370 will be found

French gendarmes and police stand on the beach where a large piece of debris from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was found in Saint-Andre, on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, July 29, 2015.

...But Australian authorities are not being guided by the experienced Boeing 777 pilot's analysis. Martin Dolan, the bureau's chief commissioner, said the search was moving farther south within a 46,000-square-mile priority area because the southern hemisphere spring had made the extreme conditions in the southern ocean calmer.


"We're aware that we're in the area that Capt. Hardy specifies, but we're in that area because it was next in our search sequence, and we've been moving progressively south because the weather is improving," Dolan said...

..Dolan said authorities still believe that the final satellite transmission from one of the jet's engines indicated that it was out of fuel, meaning the plane would have plummeted into the ocean out of control and disintegrated...

 
Anyway enough BB (Beaker Bollocks) for one day - the following was also on News Corp -  MH370 search looking in the ‘right place at last’ say Boeing 777 pilots

And from Ben Sandilands (Planetalking), with a far more pragmatic report on the latest MH370 SIO events :

Two, maybe three things may now help MH370 search


Ben Sandilands | Nov 23, 2015 7:20AM


The typical sea state of the South Indian Ocean in the search area

There are a number of reasons to think the search for missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 may be taking a turn for the better.

The JACC or Joint Agency Coordination Centre has confirmation that the sea bed search is now in the area predicted for the point of impact, if not controlled ditching, by a British pilot Captain Simon Hardy almost a year ago.

China has also agreed, at last, to put a reported $20 million and an extra ship into the search, after it seems watching askance at the Malaysia directed Australia performed effort, which until now has been jointly funded by Kuala Lumpur and Canberra.

And it seems highly likely, but not yet confirmed, that better sonar scanning equipment will soon be deployed to look more closely at suspicious objects seen but not resolved in close detail by current equipment on the ocean floor.

The report of China agreeing to become materially involved came out of the East Asia Summit in Kuala Lumpur. More detail, and perhaps a degree of urgency, would be welcome.

If Captain Hardy is correct, and he has certainly been methodical, logical and persuasive except when it came to getting through to the searchers, then the heavy sunk wreckage of the missing Boeing 777-200ER and the flight recorders and the remains and telephone and tablet chips belong to the 239 people on board flight MH370 should be located before Christmas.

MH370 was operating the Kuala Lumpur-Beijing route on 8 March 2014 when it vanished as a transponder identified flight on air traffic control screen while over the Gulf of Thailand.

Success isn’t a certainty. The wreckage may have come to rest just outside the area calculated by Captain Hardy, or the assumptions he has made might in one or more critical elements, be wrong.

There could be a big ‘gotcha’ factor in this perplexing disappearance, something not known to the searchers, that might change the big picture. However nothing seems likely to change the broad satellite signal analysis that says MH370 flew for seven hours 39 minutes (or so) after takeoff, and was only heard by a communications satellite parked over the west Indian Ocean which at the time of the flight’s impact, had to be around 44 degrees elevation above its horizon.

 MTF..P2