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Off the Mike Chillit seventh arc blog:

This story is currently doing the rounds on the MH370 social media front:

Sunda Strait Debris: March 12, 2014


Posted on April 20, 2016 by Mike Chillit

The text that follows is nearly verbatim from a report prepared by a Tweep who spoke with the man who posted an account of a debris sighting in and near Sunda Strait on March 12, 2014. I have not been able to speak to the witnesses, nor has anyone I know personally. One or two individuals are still attempting to make contact with them. The original report claims there were 6 individuals on the sailboat, but only two appear to be the focus of the report. Here is the Tweep’s account after she conducted a phone interview of a guy who posted the information on a well maintained website that covers commercial plane crashes and disappearances. The interviewer speaks and writes English, but her first language is French and the interview may have been in French (don’t know):

I just had a phone call with [the webmaster]: We can’t contact the witnesses: they want to keep anonymity. They are not young, and didn’t take pics because they hadn’t their phone with them on the deck of their boat.

They were sailing to India via Sunda Strait. They saw debris 4 days after the disappearance of MH370 (near and in Sunda Strait). They did a report to the Australian embassy (in Indonesia?) and to China in 2014.

I don’t know how [the webmaster] heard about it. (He owns an enterprise that deices planes at Geneva airport).

They transmitted their report to the Swiss police last week. Not before, because they had not heard about their testimony since they did it. Last week, on Jeff Wise (or elsewhere) someone quoted it. Since, they have been annoyed by journos and other people.

If we want more info, we have to contact the Swiss Police, which is now in touch with Australia or Malaysia (I don’t remember).

I came too late to [the webmaster]. It was not so easy to speak with him. But at the end, fortunately he told me that he will give me other infos if he has, in the future.

He is a straight and proud guy. On his website, he publishes only official infos. I guess he doubts about the MH370 debris, but will never tell it. However he remembered me a Boeing 747 which crashed in SIO on 1987; it still lies near Mauritius, below 4000m.
As you may have guessed, I have replaced the guy’s real-life name with “[the webmaster]”.

This is my recreation of where the debris was spotted in and near the Sunda Strait. As I’ve said, it is a logical fit. Some debris from that area would likely pass through the Strait into the Indian Ocean, and from there the Mascarene Island and Mozambique Channel areas are logical / plausible end-points.



Location of debris spotted by people on a sail from Perth to Singapore via the Sunda Strait. Flight #QZ8501 went down a short distance southeast of the Strait about six months after MH370 disappeared. It was days before anything was spotted, even when investigators knew where to look for QZ8501.

The original coordinates used north latitude instead of south. It didn’t make much sense to me the way the narrative was written, so I contracted the guy who posted the information. After some checking, he agreed that he had failed to enter a negative sign for the latitude. The change moved the debris location from near the Waypoint Igari area to where you see it depicted here.

I will update this post as new information becomes available.

April 20, 2016 @ 4:30 PM EDT
[I have tremendous regard for the Tweep who is working the trenches to get this information, and do all the other things in a very busy life.]

This information is coming from (our source): Ronan Hubert, directeur du Bureau d’archives des accidents d’avion.

Tweep: I believe a report has been sent to Swiss Police. Do you know who I can contact specifically?

Ronan Hubert: The testimony of the Swiss Citizen was transmitted to the Swiss Police oft the Canton du Valais (Wallis, capital city is Sion).

Tweep: How did you come across this information? Nothing has been published in the media.

Ronan Hubert: Approximately one year after the accident, Swiss Television made a special edition about the crash and I was invited to comment. This edition is called ‘Geopolitis’. You can find it on the website of Swiss TV (RTS). Following this, the person contacted me to give me her testimony. As this testimony seemed pertinent to me, I judged interesting at this time to put it on my website. There was nothing in the medias but my website has 3,500 to 10,000 visitors daily, from all over the world. And in this file, it is not my responsibility to give any testimony to the medias.

Tweep: Is there any chance that this could be a bogus report?

Ronan Hubert: It is not a bogus report and I trust this person as there are no profit at all on this story : no money, no return, no mention anywhere, nothing. But, as I said, the debris that they spotted are maybe from a boat and nothing was mentioned on this testimony or my website that these debris were from MH370. It is maybe a simple coincidence, maybe not. But for sure, these debris that were spotted four days after the crash are now far away from this position.

Tweep: How did the family know the exact coordinates of the location?

Ronan Hubert: The coordinates were given to the passengers as they ask to the ship personnel. For other details, I invite to contact the police directly. I’m still awaiting the details of the police officer who is in charge of this file.

Many thanks to Mr. Ronan Hubert for his assistance with this critically important bit of new information.

More to come

 
The latest MC (20 April 2016) update was also verified here (in bold blue):

Crash of a Boeing 777-2H6ER into the Indian Ocean: 239 killed









Accident description

• Date & Time
  Mar 8, 2014 at 0130 LT
  
• Type of Aircraft
  Boeing 777-200
  
• Operator
  
  
• Registration 9M-MRO
  
• Flight PhaseFlight
  
• Flight TypeScheduled Revenue Flight
  
• SurvivorsNo
  
• SiteLake, Sea, Ocean
  
• Schedule
  Kuala Lumpur – Beijing
  
• c/n 28420/404
  
• YOM 14MAY2002
  
• Flight number MAS370
  
• LocationIndian Ocean, World
  
• CountryWorld
  
• Region
  
• Crew on board 12
  
• Crew fatalities 12
  
• Pax on board 227
  
• Pax fatalities 227
  
• Other fatalities 0
  
• Total fatalities239
  
• Captain / Total flying hours 18365
  
• Copilot / Total flying hours 2763
  
• Aircraft flight hours 53465
  
• Aircraft flight cycles 7525
  
• Circumstances
  
  The Boeing 777-2H6ER took off from Kuala Lumpur Airport runway 32R at 0041LT bound for Beijing. Some 40 minutes later, while reaching FL350 over the Gulf of Thailand, radar contact was lost. At this time, the position of the aircraft was estimated 90 NM northeast of Kota Bharu, some 2 km from the IGARI waypoint. More than 4 days after the 'accident', no trace of the aircraft has been found. On the fifth day of operation, several countries were involved in the SAR operations, in the Gulf of Thailand, west of China Sea and on the Malacca Strait as well. All operations are performed in coordination with China, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Philippines.  No distress call or any kind of message was sent by the crew. The last ACARS message was received at 0107LT and did not contain any error, failure or technical problems. At 0119LT was recorded the last radio transmission with the crew saying "All right, good night". At 0121LT, the transponder was switched off and the last radar contact was recorded at 0130LT.  Several hypothesis are open and no trace of the aircraft nor the occupant have been found up to March 18, 2014.  It is now understood the aircraft may flew several hours after it disappeared from radar screens, flying on an opposite direction from the prescribed flight plan, most probably to the south over the Indian Ocean.  No such situation was ever noted by the B3A, so it is now capital to find both CVR & DFDR to explain the exact circumstances of this tragic event. Considering the actual situation, all scenarios are possible and all hypothesis are still open. On Mar 24, 2014, the Malaysian Prime Minister announced that according to new computations by the British AAIB based on new satellite data, there is no reasonable doubt that flight MH370 ended in the South Indian Ocean some 2,600 km west of Perth. Given the situation, the Malaysian Authorities believe that there is no chance to find any survivors among the 239 occupants.
  
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  According to the testimony of 6 Swiss Citizens making a cruise between Perth and Singapore via Jakarta, the following evidences were spotted on March 12 while approaching the Sunda Strait:  1430LT - latitude 6° S, longitude 105° E, speed 17,7 knots:  life jacket, food trays, papers, pieces of polystyrene, wallets, 1500LT:  a huge white piece of 6 meters long to 2,5 meters wide with other debris, 1530LT: two masts one meter long with small flags on top, red and blue, 2030LT - latitude 5° S, longitude 107° E, speed 20,2 knots.
  
  This testimony was submitted by these 6 Swiss Citizens to the Chinese and Australian Authorities. On April 21, 2016, it was confirmed that this testimony was recorded by the Swiss Police and transmitted to the Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board (STSB), the State authority of the Swiss Confederation which has a mandate to investigate accidents and dangerous incidents involving trains, aircraft, inland navigation ships, and seagoing vessels. The link to the STSB is http://www.sust.admin.ch/en/index.html.
  
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  On July 29, 2015, a flaperon was found on a beach of the French Island of La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean. It was quickly confirmed by the French Authorities (BEA) that the debris was part of the Malaysian B777.  Other debris have been found since, in Mozambique and South Africa apparently.
  

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