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Captain's Log 05.11.16: Chinese whispers & the fine art of Spin-doctoring...

One & half days ago - because I'm pretty sure the ATSB work off UTC not LMT - Hoody's PR machine stepped into gear and unfortunately made another shameful addition to their Correcting the BOLLOCKS webpage: 3 Nov 2016 -Misleading media reporting on the First Principles Review into the search for MH370

Correcting the Record


Misleading media reporting on the First Principles Review into the search for MH370
3 November 2016

It has been reported by the ABC and news.com.au that the purpose of the First Principles Review meeting in Canberra on 2-4 November 2016 is for the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) to seek additional funding from the Australian Government to extend the search for MH370.

This is not correct.

The First Principles review meeting consists of experts from the Search Strategy Working Group including Australian Defence Scientists, Boeing, Thales, Inmarsat, the National Transportation Safety Board of the US and the Air Accident Investigation Branch of the UK along with experts from CSIRO, Geoscience Australia and Curtin University, and with representatives for Malaysia (including officers of the Malaysian Department of Civil Aviation) and the People’s Republic of China. They are reviewing all the available data and associated analysis, assumptions and modelling undertaken to inform the definition of the search area. The review will inform the remainder of the current search effort, and if needed, develop guidance for any future search operations.

Ministers from Malaysia, Australia and the People's Republic of China, agreed at the Tripartite meeting in July 2016 that should the aircraft not be located in the current search area, and in the absence of credible new evidence leading to the identification of a specific location of the aircraft, the search would not end, but be suspended upon completion of the 120,000 square kilometre search area.

It has also been suggested by the ABC that “Australia is understood to be using the meeting to put together the best scientific thinking, along with a sound and reasonable business plan that will make it impossible for Malaysia and China to back away from.” This is not correct. This is not the purpose of the meeting and the agenda is not to expand the search area.

Representatives from both the Government of Malaysia and the People’s Republic of China are present at the three-day meeting, and Australia continues to work closely with Malaysia and the People’s Republic of China on the search for MH370. In accordance with the Tripartite arrangement, Ministers from Malaysia, Australia and the People's Republic of China continue to take decisions together regarding the search.

For the First Principles Review, the ATSB has assembled experts from around the world to reassess the data available. A report detailing the findings of the First Principle Review will be made available following the meeting.
 



Last update 03 November 2016 
 

 
A note on this latest CTB entry...

If you could bother to visit the bureau's media pages - Media Releases and Alerts & News Items - or their twitter page - https://twitter.com/atsbinfo - you will see that the ATSB indignation and outrage does not stretch beyond the CTB page - why not? 

A couple of options:

1) The ATSB are deeply embarrassed that our national broadcaster could be so misled by scuttlebutt & innuendo;

2) The miniscule 4D NFI Chester, representing the Government, is actually the one outraged, indignant and embarrassed that one of the agencies he is responsible for appears to be contradicting the current Government (and Tripartite) policy on MH370.

However if that were the case wouldn't you think the miniscule's office would also be advertising the ATSB CTB statement? A quick peruse of 4D's media page suggests that didn't happen; (P2 comment - I also think the miniscule himself, given Barnbaby's long running feud and criticism with the ABC being too 'leftist', wouldn't pass up the opportunity to mudsling the other Aunty ) 

 3) Option three is my firm favourite and it goes along the lines of my previous post on the subject:   

Invariably this will stir up more consternation and self-righteous indignation from the BB critics and ATSB biased supporters (like Mick & Ben S). However IMO the 'he said, she said' & 'the pilot did it vs the pilot didn't do it' is somewhat irrelevant in the grand scheme of the MH370 search and is merely another cleverly manipulated smokescreen to help cover-up the deficiencies of certain DIPs to the MH370 investigation and search effort.  

IMO both BB & Ricardas make some valid points, that perhaps people in their rush to lambast the likes of Bailey, as an arrogant and ignorant former Skygod, should be considering and supporting.

BB - It appears to me that the taxpayer-funded ATSB members should be more focused on having an open, transparent and truthful inquiry into MH370.

On that point we should not forget that it was the Dolan led ATSB, that originally narrowed the scope of the 7th arc deep ocean search to the current high priority search zone. Now that same organisation believes we should be searching 'just a little bit' further North and wants our Government to go cap in hand to the other major DIPs (China & Malaysia at least??) for an additional $30 million to continue....

  
If my OBS happens to be true then the question that should be asked of the ABC, news.com.au (& any other MSM or social media outlet that was equally misled on the eve of the First Principles Review)...

Q/ Who was the source/mole that leaked this scuttlebutt as advertised in the B/S CTB statement? 

Ask yourself why is it we hear everything through this carefully scripted information vacuum and media funnel?



Ask yourself why it is not possible to get comment from other members of the SSWG in the above picture? They are not part of the MH370 ICAO Annex 13 JIT, so should not be gagged to comment on their thoughts and expert opinions??

Although I believe there are good expert people within the SSWG (see above) and parts of the ATSB, unfortunately their views and moral convictions are being swamped by bureaucratic, diplomatic and political self-interests...

Therefore for the integrity, transparency and psychological well being of the NOK, I am now totally in agreement with Mike Chillit, it is way past time that a fresh set of fully independent eyes and minds take over the MH370 search effort and investigation.


MTF...P2