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Okay we are now only a matter of weeks out from the '15-'16 Budget Estimates - & from an Australian perspective our government has committed millions more dollars(??) & resources to the planned expanded MH370 search area in the SIO.  As Brock McEwan states...

"...But the time is long past due for grassroots ACTION – not mere complaining about search conduct, nor bickering amongst ourselves. We must direct our questions re: holes in the official story to those who have actually MADE the holes – in this case, primarily agencies of the Australian government, whether puppets or not. If we ask hard pointedly enough, they’ll have to give up who they’re shilling for.

And then we’ll ask THEM the questions.  And so on, until we get the ANSWERS.

Eventually, we’ll get to someone who knows something – no matter WHAT flag they wave...

..The ATSB has misled us, and misdirected the search. Repeatedly. It is time for the general public to whom they are accountable (you and your compatriots) to bring them in for further questioning. Even if they’re a patsy, intense questioning will prove very useful.

Don’t think of it as damning Eisenhower for Kennedy’s sins – think of it as grilling Dean to get to Nixon..."

...it is in the Australian public/taxpayer interest that the many outstanding questions (that he and many others) have put to the ATSB (that so far are being continuously obfuscated or blatantly ignored) be answered. 

IMO the RRAT Committee Senate Estimates is the perfect forum to get these answers. And from last Estimates with the attendance of Mr Peter Foley (Program Director, Operational Search for MH370) it would appear that the powers to be were expecting more QONs to be asked. As it was Foley only gave a very limited update to the MH370 search:

Refer - ATSB Hansard 24/02/15 or...

So in order to facilitate the many pointed questions that the many concerned & intelligent individuals have in regards to the ATSB managed search for MH370 in the SIO, PAIN is happy to collate any offered QON and forward the same to the RRAT Committee Senators best equipped to ask the right questions.   No guarantees, but we promise to try. 

Anyone who wishes to pose a question to the ATSB on the MH370 SIO search etc. - at the Budget Estimates on the 25-28th of May - this is not a bad place to start.

Okay to kick off the Q&A list...

Q1/ I don't know about anyone else but I'd like to know who it is that sits on the SSWG?

Q2/ I'd also like to know the answer to Brock's (& presumably many others) question on why (& on what new evidence) the ATSB is making signs of searching beyond their original performance limit for MH370?? 

From thread - Less Noise and More Signal post #6 

"...If the ATSB’s Oct. Flight Path Analysis Update is to be believed, there is no point searching SW of [S38, E88], because that was where the performance limit crossed the 7th arc (translation: they feel MH370 lacked sufficient fuel to make it to any point on the 7th arc further SW of that coordinate, as it would cover too much distance within the prescribed amount of time).  

ATSB - MH370 questions for the Senators: cont/-

Okay from the Thorny & "K" posts I get...

Q3/ Why are we wasting money on a search that is quite obviously based on flawed and obfuscated (i.e. they know more that they're not telling us) data?

Q4/ Why is Australia carrying the can (responsibility) on this while the information vacuum from the Malaysians is simply stultifying?

The questions keep mounting, the search keeps extending the results need little 'technical' explanation.  The 'establishment' search area is now believed to be incorrect by so many as to bring reasonable doubt on the official conclusions.  The IG, Brock McEwan, Bobby Ulich, Paul Howard, Jeff Wise, Mike Chillit, to name but a few would would happily challenge the SSWG conclusions.   I believe they would be delighted to be proven wrong and even more pleased to throw their collective, not inconsiderable intellectual weight into assisting refine or remodel the search parameters.  But it is very wrong that they should be slapped down, dismissed and denigrated as 'amateurs' - especially by the likes of Dolan.  Anyway, this and more has been said many times over, to no avail.

    
Well said "K" and very much backs up my Q/ 1&2....   As does various parts of the latest off Jeff Wises blog piece - The Reasoning Behind the Continued Search of the Southern Indian Ocean for MH370:

"..The fly in the ointment is that the search area described in the area is now almost completely scanned, and the plane is not inside it. When the last square kilometer of the current 60,000 square kilometer search zone is scanned sometime next month, the hypothesis will have been falsified. The UFES will have been shown to be incorrect.

The failure to find the plane in the search area should not be regarded as failure. Rather, it is an important piece of information about the fate of MH370. It allows us to narrow down the list of possibilities going forward.

But it does force us to confront a difficult question: How do we best rationally proceed?.."

Top question Jeff, unfortunately I don't think the ATSB - led by self proclaimed super sleuth & media magnet Dolan (refer SMH thread) - intend for anyone but the faceless men & women on the SSWG to have any input on the way forward....

Hopefully???- MTF with questions for the Senators....P2