Why MH370 Military Officials Refuse Telling Truth
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Malaysia’s government has begun an independent investigation of civil aviation and military authorities to determine why identifying and tracking Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 failed during the first chaotic hours after it vanished. Military sources admitted to Reuters fear of losing their jobs if they disclose what they know, a possible indication of the depth of a military coverup.
Military Gagged
Reuters’ interviews with five officials, one senior government source and four other civilian and military officials, show they are all gagged. They all spoke under agreement of anonymity, all too familiar throughout the search and rescue.
They each claimed they could not be identified due to sensitivity of the issue and because they were not authorised to speak to media.
Each of the military sources said they were afraid of being fired. If any were US military, retaliation could be far worse than being fired. Chelsea Manning’s treatment, including torture and excessive detention sentencing, has served as a loud and clear warning to any troop who is tempted to obey the U.S. Constitution rather than follow orders to commit crimes.
One source told Reuters that military officials in particular were concerned they could lose their jobs. This has left the gate wide open for further public speculation about why he said that, under what grounds military personnel might be fired, and of course, what they are coerced to hide.
Preliminary internal enquiries come as tensions continue escalating between civilian and military authorities over who bears most responsibility for initial confusion and errors that led to a week-long search in the wrong ocean.
“What happened at that time is being investigated and I can’t say any more than that because it involves the military and the government,” a senior government official told Reuters.
New independent investigation
Accounts Reuters did obtain reveal growing tensions between civilian officials, the military and Malaysia Airlines over whether more could have been done in those initial hours.
Malaysia Airlines Chief Executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya told Reuters last week that internal enquiries were under way, although he declined to give details.
Although a government spokesman did not respond to Reuters questions over whether an investigation had been launched, the source said it was aimed at getting a detailed picture of the initial response to the crisis. It was unclear which government department was in charge or whether a formal probe had been opened. Prime Minister Razak had vowed last week to begin an independent investigation on MH370. In a carefully scripted statement at an earlier briefing, he stated that he asked each country involved in the search and rescue to be transparent, stopping short of accusing them of a coverup or naming names.
Malaysia’s opposition coalition has demanded a parliamentary inquiry into what happened on the ground those first few hours. Government officials have said any formal inquiry should not begin until the flight’s black box recorders are found.
The Boeing 777 was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew when it “disappeared” March 8. Malaysia prime minister finally said the plane crashed in the southern Indian Ocean after deliberately diverted from its Kuala Lumpur-to-Beijing route. Soon after that, however, the minister of transportation said he believed the all of the passengers were alive.
The search effort is off the Australian city of Perth, concentrating on finding any wreckage and the recorders, that might provide answers to what happened onboard. Thus far, critics have called that search effort a wild goose chase resulting in nothing except media frenzy and spending millions of dollars.
MH370′s first hour of “disappearance”
The five officials nevertheless gave the most detailed account yet of events in the hour after the plane vanished, according to Reuters.
They concurred that air traffic controllers and military officials assumed the plane had turned back to an airport in Malaysia because of mechanical trouble when it disappeared off civilian radar screens at 1:21 a.m. local time. That assumption, however, was made despite no distress call or other communication from the cockpit giving any clue the plane had been hijacked or deliberately diverted — as officials have concurred happened.
“The initial assumption was that the aircraft could have diverted due to mechanical issues or, in the worst case scenario, crashed,” said a senior Malaysian civilian source. “That is what we were working on.”
Officials at Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation, that oversees air traffic controllers, the Defence Ministry and air force, directed requests for comment to the prime minister’s office, that did not respond.
One senior military official said air traffic control had informed the military around 2:00 a.m. that a plane was missing. The standard operating procedure was to do so within 15 minutes, he said. Another military source said the notification was slow in coming, but gave no time.
Civil aviation officials told Reuters their response was in line with guidelines, but gave no specific time the military was informed.
Once alerted, military radar picked up an unidentified plane heading west across peninsular Malaysia, the senior military official said.
The air force has said a plane that could have been MH370 was last plotted on military radar at 2:15 a.m., 320 km (200 miles) northwest of the west coast state of Penang.
Top military officials have publicly said Malaysia’s U.S. and Russian-made fighter jets stationed at air force bases in Penang and the east coast state of Kuantan were not scrambled to intercept the plane because it was not viewed as “hostile”.
”When we were alerted, we got our boys to check the military radar. We noticed that there was an unmarked plane flying back but (we) could not confirm (its identity),” said the senior military source.
“Based on the information we had from ATC (Air Traffic Control) and DCA (Department of Civil Aviation), we did not send up any jets because it was possibly mechanical problems and the plane might have been going back to Penang.”
The military has not publicly acknowledged it tracked the plane in real time as it crossed back over the peninsula.
While fighter jets would not have had enough fuel to track a Boeing 777 for long and darkness would have complicated the operation, they could have spotted MH370 flying across peninsular Malaysia and possibly beyond, aviation experts said.
That could have enabled Malaysia to get a better fix on where it was headed and thus possibly ruled out the need to search off its east coast in the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea, around where MH370 was last seen on civilian radar.
Fighter pilots should be able to scramble within minutes, aviation experts said, although the time can vary widely from country to country. In Europe and North America, radar experts said controllers were trained to coordinate across civil and military lines and across borders.
They said military jets would have been scrambled, as they were from a Greek air force base in 2005 when a Helios Airways jet with 121 people on board lost contact over the Aegean Sea after suffering a decompression that knocked out the pilots.
Two F-16 jets could see the captain’s seat empty and the first officer slumped over the controls. The plane crashed in Greece after running out of fuel.
”This raises questions of coordination between military and civil controllers,” former pilot Hugh Dibley, a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in London, said of Malaysia’s response.
Another contentious issue has been whether the military was slow in passing on its radar data that showed an unidentified plane had re-crossed the Malay peninsula.
Two civilian aviation officials said military bureaucracy delayed the sharing of this information, although they gave no precise timeframe for when it was handed over.
“The armed forces knew much earlier that the aircraft could have turned back. That is why the search was expanded to include the Strait of Malacca within a day or two,” said a second senior civilian source, who was familiar with the initial search, referring to the narrow stretch of water between Indonesia and Malaysia, on the western side of the peninsula.
“But the military did not confirm this until much later due to resistance from senior officers, and the government needed to step in. We wasted our time in the South China Sea.”
Government sources have said Prime Minister Najib Razak had to force the military to turn over its raw radar data to investigators during the first week after the flight’s disappearance.
Military officials claimed they did not want to risk causing confusion by sharing the data before it had been verified, adding this was why Air Force chief Rodzali Daud went to the air base in Penang on March 9, where the plane’s final radar plot was recorded.
That same day, Rodzali said the search was going to expand to the west coast, although Reuters has not been able to determine if that meant the data was being shared with other Malaysian officials.
On March 12, four days after Flight MH370 disappeared, Rodzali told reporters there was still no confirmation the unidentified plane had been Flight MH370, but added Malaysia was sharing the radar data with international civilian and military authorities, including those from the United States.
Authorities ended the search in the South China Sea on March 15 after Razak said satellite data showed the plane could have taken a course anywhere from central Asia to the southern Indian Ocean.
A sixth source, a senior official in the civil aviation sector, said the plane’s disappearance exposed bureaucratic dysfunction in Malaysia, that has rarely been subject to such international demands for transparency.
“There was never the need for these silos to speak to one another. It’s not because of ill intent, it’s just the way the system was set up,” the official said.
Tensions have emerged between the government and state-controlled Malaysia Airlines.
Malaysia’s defence minister and acting transport minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, said in an interview with China’s CCTV that the airline would have to “answer” for its mistakes in managing relatives of the 150 Chinese passengers on board.
In his interview with Reuters, Malaysia Airlines chief Ahmad Jauhari downplayed the tension, calling it a ”slight differences of opinion.”
Source: Reuters
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Who in the military would risk the fate of Chelsea Manning by upholding the US Constitution over illegal orders?
ones that have an exit strategy like snowden did I suppose
This is the most important revelation yet about the silence of authorities. Congratulations on your excellent reporting.
Once again Deb, you provide superb information. I wish that all people putting information on BIN would meet your standards of quality. Thank You very much.
Hello Peter, Good to see you here again. Thank you for your very kind words.
More great work Deb! How can a plane flying without transponders(unidentified) not be considered a threat to military airspace?
The plane flew back over the Malay peninsula. Someone is definately lying here & if the Malay Air Force purchases US fighter planes, dont upset the Golden Goose!
“”Based on info…ATC & DCA ,we did not send up any jets because we thought it was mechanical problems….going back to Penang.”" We have all been told that ATC lost all contact so how did military know it was MH370?? More LIES !!
The 1st week was wasted looking in South China Sea, who has the POWER to make foreign military forces withold info, comply, or follow orders based on false information.
Weapons of Mass DEstruction in IRAQ ring a bell with anyone?????
Who made Bolivian Presidents plane forceland in Europe, thinking Snowden was onboard?
Where was NORAD fighters on the morning of 9/11? Coincidental wargames?
Diego Garcia can plan real time IRAQ bombing runs but cant see MH 370?
Who has the technology to fly drones anywhere over the planet?
Who doesnt like their hacking secrets revealed to the public? HINT:: Assange? Snowden?
Thank you Deano, for the compliment and the outstanding contributions in your comment. Yes, this hijacking was well planned, a very sophisticated operation that it seems only one cabal has the power to have achieved.
It used to be said, as the late Sen. Inouye detailed, that a Shadowy government controls the US, with its own black budget and black air force, navy… It seems that cabal has now united so well with the rest of our military, those good officials who know are too afraid to tell.
If it was really an accident, why is Hishammuddin Hussein shivering so much?
How many officials have had not only their jobs but their lives threatened if they tell the truth?
Why will they not spill the beans to a trusted reporter?
Do we believe there is absolutely no way to get the honest truth out and do so without divulging who you are?
Once the truth is out there the genie is out of the bottle and can be investigated.