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#MH370: Where is 'Iggins? - Part II 


Via the Twitterverse: https://twitter.com/nihonmama/status/157...0350704640

- Higgins "disappeared".

- Disappearance *not suspicious* WHY?

- "post mortem report" (HOW, unless there's a dead body?)

He was a veteran journo, but neither
@australian nor others report his disappearance?

But it's revealed in a doc?

AYFKM? #MH370

Plus via https://mikechillit.net/ :

MH370: Upcoming Coroner’s Review of Ean Higgins’ 2020 Disappearance

October 7, 2022 by Mike Chillit

It is premature to suggest that Greg Hood, former Chief Commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Board (ATSB), may eventually be charged in connection with the disappearance of veteran journalist Ean Higgins. But, that there was an atmosphere of animosity between the two individuals is undeniable. It would nevertheless be an unacceptable flight of fancy to speculate beyond what little is currently known: namely that Mr. Higgins vanished without a trace, much like the Boeing 777-200 he had covered for The Australian newspaper for six years. No physical evidence is known to have been found, apparently; no letter or note of despair; no corpse; no nothing.

Figure 1: Ean Higgins was an accomplished journalist who worked for “The Australian” newspaper when he vanished in early 2020. A Coroner’s Review is now scheduled to examine that disappearance, two and a half years after it was first characterized as “suspicious”. Why did it take so long? Not known at this point. But there is a disturbing possibility: Mr. Higgins’ had a consuming interest in the disappearance of MH370. He also ardently believed his own Canberra government repeatedly lied about its efforts to locate the plane. Higgins was so certain of Canberra’s culpability for a search that seemed to languish endlessly that he published “The Hunt for MH370” shortly before he disappeared. The paperback version sold out quickly. Sadly, Mr. Higgins’ disappearance is not the first collateral calamity to befall those who have challenged Canberra’s integrity with regard to MH370. (Click to enlarge)

Jimmy Hoffa, déjà vu; Australian style.

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Image 1: Ean Higgins, Journalist for The Australian and vanished “under mysterious circumstances” in early 2020. A coroner’s review is underway in New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. While Mr. Higgins’ age and other personal details have not been published at this point, it may be safe to assume he was not “shot in the back by a jealous husband”. There has certainly not been a “rush to judgment” in Australia given that Mr. Higgins disappeared more than two years ago. Mr. Higgins’ professional interests included the fate and terminal location of MH370. He published The world was just waking up to the fact that the plane had been confirmed at Zenith Abyss in 2017, but not published until late 2019. Higgins published a book on the plane’s disappearance in 2016.

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Image 2: Greg Hood, Australian Transport Safety Bureau Chief Commissioner between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2021. MH370’s debris field was located by Germany’s Geomar in June 2017, one year after Mr. Hood took the helm at ATSB. After Germany confirmed that MH370 crashed at Zenith Abyss, Hood promptly warned all ATSB employees that they would be criminally prosecuted if they revealed anything pertaining to the discovery. No announcement was made to the public or families of victims. Australia, of course, had spent millions of dollars searching a strip of seafloor 2,000 kilometers southwest of Zenith; a location simple mathematics confirms the plane could not possibly have been. Mr. Higgins ardently believed Hood was engaged in a coverup related to MH370. Hood retaliated with a strongly worded condemnation of Higgins, even after Hood had gone on record as intent on pressing criminal charges against any employee who shared information with the media, and after Germany’s Geomar is known to have scanned the plane’s debris field in 2017. Australia has still not acknowledged the location of the debris field, but Scripps of California and others have confirmed it.

Justice, like trying to get an official acknowledgment that MH370 was physically located, scanned, and filmed by Germany in 2017, appears to be a slow-motion proposition Down Under. It is well known, for example, that Canberra funneled money through a private foundation to put a private search vessel above Zenith Abyss in May 2021 to fully document the MH370 crash site. Yet, none of the still images or video footage has been released nearly two years later. Thanks to a German Multibeam scan in 2017, an unmistakable specular reflection from the depths of Zenith Abyss perfectly matches the shape and dimensions of a Boeing 777-200. In addition, telemetry places the plane within meters of that large shiny object at the exact same abyssal location. Only the right wing and engine appear to be missing. The possibility that the right wing had been sheared on impact was predicted in 2018 by Canadian investigator Larry Vance. If correct, it may explain why so little loose debris was ever found. The most common compounds in the depths of Zenith Abyss are well documented: lava, pelagic sediment (pelagite), and manganese nodules. None of it reflects sonar or light. Reflections from the depths of the abyss are from aircraft surfaces and have been mapped to a Boeing 777-200.

One of Ean Higgin’s collegues had this to say:

Ean Higgins was active until at least mid-2020. Since then (from what I can discover) he has disappeared off the face of the earth. I’ve still got his mobile number on my phone and until recently regularly would still send him SMS messages relevant to both the GA industry and MH370. So do I find it suspicious and a huge coincidence – you bet??

Greg Hood’s 2017 poison-pen condemnation of Ean Higgins.

Correcting the Record
MH370 reporting by The Australian

28 April 2017

Letter to the Editor of The Australian

I am writing to express my concern regarding the manner in which The Australian journalist Ean Higgins continues to inaccurately report on the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 – in particular I am concerned at the negative impact this inaccurate reporting is having on the knowledge of the search by the families of those on board the aircraft.

To reiterate, under the International Civil Aviation (ICAO) Annex 13 provisions, the government of Malaysia is responsible for investigating, determining and reporting the causal factors behind the loss of MH370. It is my understanding that their investigation team is well progressed in the development of a draft report. The role of the ATSB, at the request of the government of Malaysia, is to coordinate the conduct of the underwater search.

Many of Mr Higgins’ recent articles have been centred on the ATSB’s decision not to provide him with a series of emails between members of the group of experts advising the ATSB on the search strategy in 2016. The emails pertain to an analysis of the final series of satellite communications between the aircraft and the ground earth station which indicate that the aircraft was, at that time, in a high and increasing rate of decent. The analysis was performed by one of Australia’s leading scientists in the field, is based on solid evidence and it has been extensively peer reviewed and published in a scientific journal.

The implication of this analysis for the search is that the aircraft probably impacted the surface of the ocean reasonably close to where the transmissions were made (what is known as the 7th arc). This is contrary to the views expressed by Mr Higgins and Mr Byron Bailey from The Australian, who have been vocal critics of the search and have long contended that the aircraft was being actively controlled at the end of flight and was glided to a location well away from the area which has been searched. The analysis of the transmission data, when complemented by the recently published CSIRO drift-modelling analysis, provides the best possible definition of an area in which the aircraft is likely to be located.

Mr Higgins’ articles have also consistently attempted to create the appearance of contention between the search strategy experts and members of the ATSB’s search team where none exists. He has suggested in his articles that some ATSB officers have had second thoughts about the ATSB’s position in relation to the end of flight scenario and further;

“(the) Australian Transport Safety Bureau has invoked draconian legislation in refusing to release material about its search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, warning that any bureau employee who provides such information to the public or a court could face two years in jail.”

I find the use of this journalistic tactic particularly objectionable. No such warning has ever been issued, every member of the search strategy group and the ATSB’s search team understands, and is in agreement with, the science associated with the search and the implications on the search area of the analysis of the satellite communication data. Members of the ATSB’s search team are operating under the standard legislation that ATSB employees normally operate under, governing the disclosure and use of information.

Similarly Mr Higgins suggests in his most recent article that the work currently being performed by the ATSB was prompted by negative public opinion about the search. To quote;

“But he (Mr Hood) and his ATSB colleagues are no doubt thinking the best way out of this continuing world of pain is to find MH370, and behind the scenes that’s exactly what they are trying to help make happen.”

This is also incorrect – the CSIRO drift study work we have recently published was commenced in April 2016. It is the most comprehensive and accurate study of the point of origin of MH370 debris performed to date. It forms a part of the ATSB’s ongoing work to bring the best possible science to bear to find the aircraft.

It is particularly regrettable that Mr Higgin’s articles have now led to some of the MH370 next of kin expressing doubts about the ATSB’s conduct of the search, and by implication, our commitment to finding the aircraft. The ATSB’s search team, and the experts from many organisations both in Australia and overseas supporting the search, have worked with absolute commitment, dedication and a single minded focus on finding the aircraft to provide the answers for the families of those on board and to improve transport safety. It is extraordinarily difficult and challenging work.

Leaving aside his harassing and intimidating approach in dealing with my staff when requesting information, you can perhaps now understand why I find Mr Higgins’ approach to attacking the credibility of the search unwarranted. The ATSB reserves its rights not to interact with Mr Higgins.

Greg Hood
Chief Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer
Australian Transport Safety Bureau

MTF...P2

ps Another passing strange coincidence? Via the Twitterverse: https://twitter.com/nihonmama/status/157...1087721473

..FOUND IT. Note the title.

"highlighted a peculiar reluctance by the Australian government to endorse CSIRO and ATSB research that suggests success is close at hand."

https://web.archive.org/web/201710200139...used-look/



Which brings us back to "disappeared" Ean Higgins. #MH370