[Fori362]

I guessed that might be the case. Not only here but in other, well-known, places where (in their case) discussion seems to have been locked and/or heavily edited with long-standing (professional) contributors being suddenly banned for expressing a seemingly unwelcome view.

And a great pity that is so, for that knowledge could perhaps be very helpful in determining what might/could have happened; to whittle down the likely actions and responses, if only to say (for example) 'A pilot finding himself in that situation (or his aircraft) would not do that; he would more likely instead do this...' or: 'The aircraft would behave like this...'. But I'm sure you've all been through the possible scenarios and options as given many times, contradictory as they seem to be.

Hopefully there is some section of the search effort that does want to find the aircraft and its FDR (irrespective of the MYG's seeming wish that it won't be) and wants to make that public in full.

Although the MY airforce observers being put on board OI to take charge of the FDR, when found, doesn't bode well for transparency and truth of the FDR data after the MYG's previous refusal to release the raw radar data and its subsequent classification of the radar, CCTV and ATC recordings.

Yet that placement is also an interesting departure from previous practice which suggests that perhaps a find this time is expected. No observers were placed at any point in the first search.

Credible would be good, but would be an unexpected, novel, new development in this saga.