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Much like AG has done above, I would like to start a media/blog/social media archive here on this thread. No real rules to be applied just that the story, article, statement, video or pic must be verified and not be a regurgitated, pc'd or photo-shopped version pinched off the endless stream of mindless 24/7 MSM sound bites...

...Finally (for now) for the sake of the NOK and for the credibility of the JIT ICAO Annex 13 investigation I wish to reproduce in full the following article from the Malay Mail online:  Check out all theories including Maldives sighting before setting them aside, MH370 kin say

Overnight (AEST) over on the - Australia, ATSB & MH370 thread - Gobbles caught a Oz MSM story that featured our super sleuth muppet Beaker.. .. yet again flapping his felt gums to the media...  :

Warning!! The below article contains pictures of Truss playing handsies and Beaker (complete with beard). The article also contains musings and mi mi mi from Beaker;

http://mobile.news.com.au/travel/travel-...7315872082

So there you have it, the 'font of knowledge', the maestro of facial hair, leads the way by telling us they are now going to undertake some tasks that they should've considered 12 months ago!

Mi mi mi.......Muppet!!

Geez Gobbles beardless Beaker one minute..then Beaker resplendent with full greying beard the next?? Bit like the regurgitated MMSM story to which you link, here it was earlier in the week with a few different details in the Irish Independent news:

Probe boss 'hopeful' of finding missing MH370 Malaysian Airlines plane

Published 17/04/2015 | 02:30



Open Gallery 1Government ministers from Australia, China and Malaysia said they would double the search area for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 if wreckage is not found in the current target area. Photo: Reuters

Martin Dolan, an Australian career civil servant, has had to get to grips quickly with the murky world of maritime accident investigation.

As the man in charge of the search for the missing MH370 Malaysian Airlines plane, he has also had to work out how to motivate a team searching for months for debris in vast, dangerous and seemingly hopeless waters. But he remains upbeat.

"Do I expect to find the aircraft when I wake up every day? The answer is, I don't expect to, I hope to... but over the period between now and May, we expect to find the aircraft in the search area," he said, speaking from the Australian Transport Safety Board's headquarters in Canberra.

He said this is because he is getting more hopeful, rather than less, after months of disappointment, because he believes that success is closer as more ground is covered.

The prize is a big one: answers to the tragic mystery of what happened to MH370, the passenger jet which disappeared complete with 239 passengers and crew on board on March 8, 2014.

After a surface search for debris failed in the immediate aftermath of the accident, a more in-depth search involving a complex plan has been in place. However, despite all the massive resources and painstaking efforts nothing of substance has been seen or heard of the plane or the passengers since it vanished.

Irish Independent

 
This was the comment this article drew from Ben Sandilands on twitter...

"...Always entertaining to see him claiming to be doing anything other than following instructions from KL..."

What I found interesting about that article was the date & time - 17 April 02:30. Was that Irish dateline time or Canberra time?? If Canberra time, WTF was Beaker doing on the blower at such an ungodly hour & does that also mean that the muppet was left at home while the miniscule traipsed off to the KL Tripartite meeting?? And what journo worth his salt would dare to ring a foreign country public official after midnight (Oz EST) for an interview??

     
Now according to the Irish Independent  Beaker was apparently telephone interviewed 6 days before at 02:30 in the morning and the story through repeated regurgitation has evolved...& evolved till we get this headline from the MMSM main competitor i.e. Fairfax Media in their SMH newspaper:

MH370 search to return to square one and comb for any missed clues


Date April 22, 2015 - 9:22PM  


Tidal movements in the search zone and the abundance of rubbish in the ocean, have made the search for MH370 problematic. Photo: Reuters

Experts searching for missing plane MH370 will review data collected about a year ago to ensure no clues about the plane's fate have been missed.

As the international search enters its second year, Australian Transport Safety Bureau chief Martin Dolan said satellite data from the plane's last known communications will be combed for any details that experts may have missed the first time.

And an analysis of how planes behave when they run of fuel - something that many experts believed is what happened to the plane - will also be re-examined to help pinpoint the aircraft's possible final resting place.

Commissioner Dolan told News Corp Australia: "We keep on checking because until we find the aircraft everyone can say "well you must be looking in the wrong place because you haven't found it"."

Malaysian Airlines MH370 went missing on March 8 last year, with 239 people on board, including six Australians. The Boeing 777 was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when contact stopped unexpectedly.

Since the plane went missing, countless theories have been suggested as to what happened, including terrorism, suicide by pilot and mechanical failure.

Commissioner Dolan said the best possible lead from the plane's tracking system was that the plane had crashed in the Southern Indian Ocean varying significantly off course and running out of fuel.

The international party searching for the plane agreed last week to double the size of the search, which will now cover 120,000 square kilometres of the Southern Indian Ocean.

The bureau would not comment when contacted by Fairfax Media.

The comment at the end (in bold) is interesting..
FFS would someone get a muzzle on the muppet??
Oh well at least Ben brings it back to TAWS & some sense of sanity..

Latest MH370 update takes issue with search criticism

Ben Sandilands | Apr 22, 2015 6:46PM |

While there are no discoveries reported in the latest MH370 search update, it makes a point of rejecting recent criticism from a range of sources, as well as The Australian’s inexplicable re run of a year old story saying it could have been seen low over a ‘remote’ Maldivian Island on the morning of its disappearance.

It’s worth reading the update in full here.

The JACC site also has a graphic showing how the existing priority search area will be as much as doubled in size if nothing is found within its boundaries by around the end of next month, while the narrative makes a point of saying that this focus on the 7th arc could be adjusted in the light of further analysis.

The Search Strategy Working Group continues its analysis of the satellite communication system messages and aircraft performance. This ongoing effort may result in refinements to the search area along the seventh arc.

That could mean that it will be.

And Brock McEwen provides a helping hand followed by "K" & Ben..

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Brock McEwen
Posted April 23, 2015 at 7:33 am | Permalink
In its dismissive suggestion that alternative postulated locations for MH370 are not supported by “known facts and careful analysis”, one presumes the JACC refers to the Inmarsat signal data.
The Inmarsat signal data is flatly contradicted by all other potential sources of physical evidence:
1) Sensitive radar installations along its indicated path
2) Intense surface/deep-sea scans at its indicated terminus
3) Sensitive seismic equipment near its indicated terminus
…all of which add up to a big, fat ZERO.
(Yes, I realize many think wreckage lies south of where searchers have yet been. However, even THAT theory actually contradicts the Inmarsat data, which SPECIFIES flameout right on the 7th arc.)
“Careful analysis” thus suggests the Inmarsat signal data is FAR from a “known fact”.
Which puts alternative destinations in play.
Perhaps the top brass responsible for the many glaring holes in the official story could clear them up for us, rather than complain about the speculation that has filled the void.

[*] Sam Jackson
Posted April 23, 2015 at 8:06 am | Permalink
Well said Brock.
If the current search is standing down for the winter; the Malaysian government (not ATSB) could use the down time to call up a think tank and consider every scrap of evidence, fact, fiction and theory. Correlate, compare, cross check and test, then use that data to define the search area, accept the responsibility for making that decision and ‘front’ the project. Better that than allowing the blame to fall squarely in Australia’s lap.
MH 370 @ http://auntypru.com/forum/index.php
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Ben Sandilands
Posted April 23, 2015 at 8:27 am | Permalink
Brock,
Could you elaborate on ‘Sensitive seismic equipment near its indicated terminus’.
In relation to sensitive radar installations along indicated flight path, my much criticised cynicism prompts me to suggest that the Indonesian system was asleep at the wheel, and that the Australian system will be revealed sooner than later to have been an almost total waste of money and incapable of carrying out its proposed over the horizon functions to the extent promised but never audited.
Australia is neither upgrading nor investing in its home grown military radar capabilities. Perhaps for very good reasons?

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MTF...P2