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MAL join the MH370 floating leaf conga line -  

The 'he said, she said, they said...err someone else' said bollocks continues this AM, reported by 'that man' in the Oz...  

Malaysian airline and ATSB reject MH370 pilot hijack theory

• Ean Higgins
  
• The Australian
  
• 12:00AM August 10, 2016
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The Malaysia Airlines group yesterday joined the Australian air safety watchdog in a concerted campaign to discredit increasing evidence that Flight MH370 captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah ­hijacked his own aircraft and may have glided it to a landing outside the underwater search zone.

Malaysia Airline System Berhad issued a rare press release on MH370, saying it “notes recent media speculation around Flight MH370 and deliberate pilot ­action” and describing such reports as “speculative”.

“Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had served Malaysia Airlines for 33 years without any disciplinary or medical issues,” MAS said, adding he had “an ­impeccable safety record”.

The move comes as the Australian Transport Safety Bureau is also mounting an aggressive public relations initiative to dispel suggestions, including from the man leading the underwater search commissioned by the ATSB, that Zaharie flew the aircraft to the end.

A review of earlier reports by the ATSB shows it has changed its publicly expressed level of confidence in its preferred “death dive” theory that MH370 crashed quickly after running out of fuel with dead or unresponsive pilots.

Previously, the ATSB said a controlled glide under pilot command was “possible”.
The ATSB is now publicly placing more weight on the presumed accuracy of satellite tracking data to determine the circumstances in which MH370 went down, having previously warned of limitations with such information.

Transport Minister Darren Chester, the ATSB, the Malaysian government, and Malaysia Airlines have been trying to downplay revelations the FBI found a simulated flight route on Zaharie’s home computer largely matching the zigzag flight MH370 took from Malaysia over the Andaman Sea to the southern Indian Ocean.

They were also stung by a statement from the leader of the underwater search, the Dutch Fugro marine survey group’s project director Paul Kennedy, that he now thought Zaharie might have been at the controls and glided the aircraft down, and that the search area should next move to one based on that ­assumption.

As revealed yesterday, ATSB head Greg Hood told The Australian automatic satellite data that tracked the path of MH370 after transponder and radio contact were lost with the aircraft on March 8, 2014, had been re-­analysed by defence scientists.

He told this newspaper analysis of the signals most closely matched a scenario in which there was no pilot at the controls at the end of the flight.

However, in its earlier public reports, including those based on the Australian Defence Science and Technology Group review last year, the ATSB did not dismiss the controlled glide theory.

The ATSB came up with a “low priority width” of an alternative search area a further 60 nautical miles wide on either side, which, it said, “encompasses the possible but less probable controlled glide scenario”.

Shakes his head and exits stage right, muttering - UDB..UDB!   P2 comment: Embarrassed face for Hoody 

IMO, except for Z being the winner, ROB off JW pretty much nails it:

ROB
Posted August 9, 2016 at 12:44 PM
@Wasir Rozlan

Very nice resume of the situation, as you see it. However, that’s not how I would interpret the evidence. I’m not buying the inexplicable shit theory for one moment. I don’t think anyone would relish getting on a plane, with inexplicable shit waiting just off stage, ready to jump out and ruin their day.

One doesn’t need to invoke inexplicable shit to account for this.

To me, the only thing thst’s inexplicable is the behaviour of the ATSB. Imagine being the laughing stock of your professional peers around the globe. Imagine having to explain away the physical evidence of a hydrodynamically wrecked flaperon trailing edge, a similarly damaged outboard flap as the consequence of a steep, 15,000 to 25,000fps descent and impact.

If Boeing have actually signed up to this, then there must have been a serious amount of arm twisting behind the scenes. I don’t believe a word of it.

Will be interesting to see what the ICAO make of it, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had already been knobbled, into the bargain.

The real decider was the cold, deep and remote SIO. Who would want to waste any more time and money in searching it? Especially with no agreement likely on where to look next. Z will ultimately be judged the winner, the passenger and crew of MH370 and their NOK, the loosers.

Update: Hood & Foley PR campaign continues on NZ radio

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The search for flight MH370

Total Time 23:56



http://auntypru.com/wp-content/uploads/2...70-048.mp3

Well done Kathryn for compiling the most comprehensive Q & A sessions of the ATSB, and in particular Peter Foley, that I think there has ever been in the last 2 years. IMO if nothing else this is a positive sign that under Hoody the ATSB are going to be more transparent & open. This is something that under Dolan would never have happened.

 Other points confirmed from this interview are:

1) The ATSB/DSTO analysis of the 00:19 BFO data, which points to a between 12-20000 fpm ROD, is a new analysis. However there is no indication why the DSTG/ATSB now believe this data to be reliable?

2) The Pemba Island Flap analysis could be pivotal to proving the 'controlled glide' scenario but not necessarily rule out the pilot did it; or 3rd party hijack scenario.

3) The ATSB is still not entertaining (the IG & others) possibility of a more Northerly search on the 7th arc.  

Need to go back over this interview recording as there is a lot to absorb but I am starting to think the Hoody backed ATSB MH370 PR exercise is a positive sign. It could be that the ATSB is trying to recover some of the damage inflicted to their credibility through Dolan's obsessive secret squirrel control of anything related to MH370; or indeed any other high profile investigations ...


MTF...P2