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MH370: Bailey has a point?


Via the Oz:

We can’t leave MH370 buried under falsehoods



Three Russians and a Ukrainian have finally been charged over the MH17 atrocity that claimed 298 lives, including those of 38 Australians.

The saga of the attack on MH17 started with a lie.

Vladimir Putin blamed it on a Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-25 ground attack fighter bomber. I immediately pointed out in an article in The Daily Telegraph that this was impossible. The Vympel infra-red homing missile with its tiny 7kg warhead would have homed in on the engine heat signature from a rear quarter and damaged only an engine; it could not have caused the massive front quarter fragmentation explosion that brought down MH17. As well, an Su-25 SLUF (fighter pilot terminology: slow low ugly f..ker) would not be able to achieve a firing solution on a high-altitude target flying at M.84.

MH370 started with the truth.

The Malaysian prime minister in his first televised address said MH370 was a case of human intervention and the head of Emirates said live on German TV that pilots should not be able to turn off vital equipment in flight. This was confirmed by the FBI supplying the ATSB with the captain’s deleted flight plan that ended in the southern Indian Ocean and saying it considered the MH370 captain to have hijacked his own aircraft.

The end is in sight for the families of MH17 victims and most reached an out-of-court settlement with Malaysia Airlines last year, including an Australian-led class action.

But the reality is that MH17 was flying over a war zone and the reckless, incompetent missile battery thought they were shooting down a Ukrainian Ilyushin Il-76 military transport.

I was in the Australian Federal Court several years ago as the lone lawyer from Vector Legal representing MH370 and MH17 families and did legal battle with the high-powered legal team opposite from the ATSB and Malaysia Airlines. The Montreal Convention limits payouts to $170,000 for the loss of a breadwinner. If negligence could be proved against an airline then the liability could be unlimited.

The false end of the MH370 saga came with the release last year of the Malaysian government’s final report, a whitewash that absolved, contrary to all the evidence and the opinions of aviation experts, the captain of blame and threw in the red-herring possibility of involvement by a third party.

To its eternal shame the Australian Transport Safety Bureau signed off on this disgraceful lie, so the families of the MH370 victims are essentially dudded from the compensation they deserve.

Truth, transparency and justice should be the cornerstones of a democracy. This is why MH370 remains a prima facie cold-case murder until the aircraft is found. The search area where aviation experts believe MH370 was ditched could be searched in less than a week.

MH370 must be found, as truth matters!

"...the high-powered legal team opposite from the ATSB and Malaysia Airlines..."

Not exactly sure that the legal team was from the ATSB but even if the statement is partly true and there was representations from the ATSB at the Federal Court, that IMO is a major concern for a supposedly fully independent government entity representing our interests as a certified ICAO Annex 13 AAI...    

MTF...P2