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Please someone??..anyone??..shut the Muppet up -

..As someone who has closely followed efforts to find MH370 from the beginning, it is annoying to read that Martin Dolan continues to blow off his and ATSB’s collective negligence in a horribly botched search for the plane and its victims.

To be clear, no one knows where the plane is: I don’t know where it is; Martin Dolan doesn’t know where it is; the Pope doesn’t know where it is; PAIN doesn’t know where it is. But I know that a random kid working his first job at a fast-food drive-up window would have made consistently better decisions than Martin Dolan made. And on top of it, Dolan has the chutzpah to suggest he has a “diminishing level of confidence”. Such a pretentious shrug of the shoulders!

..Martin Dolan is offensive: 1) he deliberately hired a company that intended to use cheap, outdated, nearly blind sidescan sonar towfish; 2) he deliberately ignored SAR applicants with proven track records in the Air France Flight 447 recovery (because he preferred to save a few bucks); and, worst of all 3) after all ‘Ts’ were crossed and contracts signed, Martin Dolan never looked back; never considered that his strategy halfway to Penguin Land was hopelessly flawed. Instead, he pulled strings to have CSIRO and other Australia General Fund “troughers” contribute ridiculous assessments of the “correctness” of his poorly informed decisions...

...Martin Dolan a free hand to do as he wished with the search itself at the single most critical juncture since the plane vanished.

And Martin Dolan’s instincts were to cover his behind. He quickly came up with a new drift model… invented overnight… to replace the one he had been using for six months. The original drift model predicted aircraft debris was likely to wash up on Indonesia’s Java and Sumatra islands if the plane came down on or near the 7th Arc in the Indian Ocean.

But with recovery of the flaperon thousands of kilometers in the wrong direction, Dolan instantly recognized he had a problem. With a free hand from the diminishing presence of Mr. Abbott, Dolan quickly convinced CSIRO to come up with a joke of an analysis that asked the drift question in a way that required the answer Dolan wanted. (NOAA made a special run for me with the same data, and it points unequivocally to the Wharton Basin area.)

Next, Dolan took steps to make sure he wouldn’t be pressured into moving the search at all. He found someone who came up with a Bayesian model to “prove” ATSB was searching the correct part of the southern Indian Ocean. It is a 27 page farce (128 pages for the full PDF). It was a farce the moment it was published, but it is now a verified farce. The only parts of MH370 that have been found have been found by people who are not being paid to do stupid things or claim they are knowledgeable of Bayesian Statistics...

From the other Aunty AM program (this am), Beaker is again flapping his felt gums:

MH370 search to be called on in July

Peter Lloyd reported this story on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 08:20:59

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MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: The man in charge of the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has confirmed the underwater hunt for the missing plane off the West Australian coast will be called off as soon as July unless significant new evidence emerges.

The search spanning an arc of 120,000 kilometres in length has failed to find any trace of the Boeing 777 that went missing in March 2014 on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew onboard.

Small fragments of wreckage have washed up in Africa, but that's not been enough to convince the Federal Government to commit beyond the $60 million already spent.

Peter Lloyd reports.

PETER LLOYD: It's modern aviation's most enduring mystery, the jet that vanished.

Since experts mapped the plane's final track deep into the Indian Ocean, it's been the Transport Safety Bureau Chief Commissioner Martin Dolan steering the improbable deep ocean hunt.

MARTIN DOLAN: Governments have commissioned us to cover up to 120,000 square kilometres, we've got about 15,000 square kilometres of that to go.

We are at the point of the search where we have to contemplate the possibility we won't find it. The families will be upset, disappointed.

PETER LLOYD: Upset doesn't begin to convey the fury of most MH370 families.

Most are mainland Chinese with less grasp of the megaphone to campaign for more transparency from the Malaysian government.

Sara Bajce is American, her partner Philip was on that plane.

SARA BAJCE: They are clearly hiding something.

PETER LLOYD: Who did it, why, and how are the big questions for those who insist it was foul play, and mass murder.

But the Indian Ocean has given up only five fragments of wreckage.

It took more than a year for the first piece to turn up, part of the wing, and debris was confirmed again this past week.

While the hunt for the hull continues, Malaysia has been doing the investigation.

It's looking at maintenance history, cargo, telco traffic from the plane, and the still unexplained first loss of power to MH370.

It went dark, then regained power as it hurtled into the night sky, off course, and unnoticed by the air traffic defence network operatives of Malaysia and Thailand.

The criminal case is still open in Malaysia and the French still suspect this was a terrorist act.

Sara Bajce just doesn't buy the Malaysian government narrative that the puzzle will be solved with the discovery of the wreck.

SARA BAJCE: That aeroplane flew for a very long time over Malaysian airspace. Got a 777, an unidentified object that theoretically has no communication with the ground, flying over their airspace and they're saying that their military just didn't see it.

Right?

Or that they didn't think it was a threat, they thought it was friendly, I don't believe that. The Malaysian military is quite sophisticated, they've got one of the best radar coverage systems in this part of the world.

PETER LLOYD: The families say they are battling the company for insurance. They say they've been made low ball offers. Malaysia says that's not true.

Regardless of what happens in the courts in this mystery, the ATSB's Martin Dolan says there is one certainty that barring any discoveries come July, the search will be off.

MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: Peter Lloyd.

  
He doesn't really say much; but then again he doesn't really have to in order to make any sane MH370 or PelAir follower feel violently ill -  


I find it extremely interesting that Dolan is suddenly spruiking to the MSM while the government is in caretaker mode and when he knows that he no longer has to front the Senators in Estimates - spineless buffoon...


MTF...P2