MH370 Flimsy Report Draws Demands: All Raw Data, Formal Int'l UN-Sanctioned Investigation

A new, long awaited MH370 report that was released Thursday lambasts Malaysia’s government  and Malaysian Airlines for mismanaging the search and rescue (SAR) mission for missing flight and its 239 missing persons.  The five-page report is so flimsy, with so little new information, however, the public is reminded that officials have said a crime has been committed, there has been a hijack, key evidence is sealed, and a demand needs to be made for the release all the raw data.

The brief report dated April 9, that earlier was submitted to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), was little more than a recap of information already released since March 8. The document and accompanying materials contained no major revelations in what remains one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history and what has drawn criticism of Malaysia government, its airline, Malaysia Airlines System, and the key agencies involved with the Search and Rescue mission that bound Malaysia to the rule of saying nothing unless every team member agreed.

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“Over a month after the aircraft departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport, its location is still unknown,” said the report, which was emailed to news organizations.

The Malaysian government has been slammed for its alleged cover up of the crime, and ts botched efforts in the weeks after the Boeing 777 supposedly “disappeared” or “was  disappeared,” and its so-called investigation.  The new report, however, does highlight the precious few hours after the aircraft “went missing” and Malaysia’s unacceptable response. The report and supporting documents were ordered to be released by Prime Minister Najib. 

“Given the fall-out of the botched search effort, the Malaysian government is desperately trying to stem the bad publicity by increasing transparency,” write Value Walk’s Brian. “Of course, given the nature of the information being released, it could only go to fuel the flames.”

Mishandled or complicit from start?

According to the report, missteps began within the first hour after the plane “disappeared,” although there were irregularities noted before the aircraft departed, as discussed in former articles by this arthor and briefly mentioned below.

By 1.20 am, the plane appeared to have slipped the watchful eyes of air traffic controls. Instead of immediately sounding the alarm, however, there was allegedly confusion and then, what appears to be untruths. 

If there was confusion, according to independent researchers, it might have been due to there being two Boeing 777s not following standard operating procedures or typical Malaysia Airline’s operating procedures, flight paths or timelines, as seen in the article, Groundbreaking: 2 Malaysia Airlines Jets’ Timelines, Flight Paths Used In Hijack Operation. Even officials finally alluded to a second plane last week. 

Much original data regarding those two flights of the two Boeings were scrubbed from the internet before the first 48 hours of the crisis. That in itself would prompt any critical thinker to ask, “Why?” 

Fortunately for truth, much less so for conspirators in this crime, some people had the fortitude to take screen shots of the critically important data within the first hours and days of the crisis. Those screen shots are so obviously so important to solving the mystery, that someone, somewhere has tried to hide that evidence. Malaysia government and/or whomever wrote the report is also allegedly complicit, as they fail to mention the second plane and the other oddities tracked just before, during and after the crisis began.

Surely some people at Malaysian Airlines knew the oddities that both planes were demonstrating within the first few hours if not before MH370 ever departed Kuala Lumpur. The airline’s operations center, however, continued reporting everything was normal, even after the one plane stopped responding to contact from the ground and had diverted off its flight path. 

At one point, ground crews concluded the plane was over Cambodia, even though no part of the plane’s flight plane called for such a route. Eventually, however, the story goes that ground control figured the plane was, in fact, not over Cambodia. Yet again, no alarm was raised – even as air traffic controllers were reportedly frantically searching for the plane. 

The airline later added that it had been able to exchange signals, according to the report.

Half an hour later, according to the report, the airline reassured controllers the Boeing 777 was in “normal condition”, based on a signal placing it even further east — on the other side of Vietnam. In fact, by then, the Boeing 777 had flown back west across Malaysia and was already on a new southerly course thought to have taken it across the tip of Indonesia and toward the Indian Ocean, where some investigators claim it crashed with 239 people on board, despite no evidence and bamboozling Inmarsat data.

Allegedly unnoticed by civil controllers, due to its transponder switched off and some how allegedly not deemed a threat by a military radar controller, the aircraft flew back across Malaysia and the Malacca Strait for an hour, while the airline believed it was in Cambodian and then Vietnamese airspace.

Foreign authorities were  contacted in the early hours to see if they had spotted the plane. At least a dozen meetings between ground authorities occurred before emergency actions were finally taken. The false trail appears to have cost controllers time, according to maps and a chronology released Thursday.

Today Online reports that the confusion echoes the vanishing of Air France Flight 447 five years ago:  ”Controllers at first mistook a virtual flight path for the plane’s actual course, said an official report, which might have delayed a search operation. It eventually took two years to find the black box from the ill-fated Air France plane.

In both cases, people on the ground were looking only at projections but thought they were looking at real information. In both cases, problems occurred in managing a growing amount of air traffic crossing through remote areas, where controllers and dispatchers sometimes have to fill in the blanks by anticipating where an aircraft should be.

“It is a natural consequence of the old traditional industry ways, which are limited by communications capability,” said air-traffic-control expert Hans Weber, president of United States-based consultancy TECOP International.

Experts say such methods are not necessarily unsafe as controllers simply compensate for uncertainty by leaving a bigger “bubble” of vacant space around a jet to avoid collision, hardly reassuring. These uncertainties lead to delays and greater congestion.

“Controllers anticipate where a plane’s next call should come from: That is what they do because that is all they have to work with,” said Mr. Weber.

Alarm eventually sounded

Despite the plane and 239 passengers still missing by 1.20 am, no alarms were raised for four hours and ten minutes – at 5:30am. Even that, however, didn’t spur Malaysian authorities to action.

A full scale search did not begin until 10:30am, after any lay person on the ground would have had a better chance of spotting it and after it would have had enough fuel to land somewhere – possibly safe and sound but hidden from the lay person.

At that point, Malaysian Transportation Minister Hishammuddin Hussein reportedly learned that the plane might have possibly ventured into the Indian Ocean. By the time Malaysian finally sounded the alarm, nine hours had passed. International protocols generally call for an emergency response within a half hour of a plane losing contact with the ground. 

Even once the alarm was raised, Malaysia continued to mismanage the crisis – or manage it precisely as the hijackers and then the “Search and Rescue” team ordered. This resulted in criticism from emergency and aviation experts from around the world and strong rebukes from China.

As far as the so-called audio recording of final words from the plane that was released this week, that too was nothing but a sham, according to many critics. They accuse the officials of doctoring the recording, deleting parts, and one critic, experienced in the US Air Force, alleges that the recording is not even from the cockpit or the pilot’s cabin.

Read Highly Suspicious MH370 Audio Recording Played For Families

“MH370 is a subject of extreme importance because of the deceptive and deliberate lack of information coming out of the Malaysian government and the possibility of a similar disappearance happening again,” wrote Before It’s News commenter Wiseman.

Wiseman reflects sentiments of many of Flight 370′s 239 missing persons’ loved ones and fellow air travelers when he says, a demand needs to be made for all the raw data to be released and a full investigation needs to be conducted. 

“Otherwise, we will never be able to determine what happened. Meaning no snippets, the original and complete cockpit voice recording to include raw radar data must be released to the public,” Wiseman says. “So far, the Malaysian government has only released snippets of the cockpit recording. This is totally unacceptable. The Malaysian government refuses to release to the public the complete data they have so that independent forensics can be done and investigators can come to their own conclusions.

“Given that, why has the UN not launched an investigation into the loss of MH370? It is time for the UN to step in to start an ICAO investigation.

Wiseman says that when he was a United States Air Force navigator, he read about aircraft disappearing and an investigation was started right away before wreckage was found. 

“This was done because of the important need to take sworn testimony to build the context of the crash,” he says. “Why won’t the Malaysian government release all documentation in their possession so that an internationally required investigation can be done?

Wiseman agrees with most Before It’s News readers and many Twitter users in that the behavior of the Malaysian government is very suspicious. 

“I believe more went on about this flight than the Malaysian government is willing to tell the world. The actual cockpit voice recordings to include radar data has been sealed, while it concurrently does not want to start an official ICAO aircraft investigation. This should make you very concerned.

This is what is not happening, he says: “An (sic) formal international probe under UN-sanctioned rules would possess certain powers to include the legal rights to take testimony from all witnesses and other parties, the right to have exclusive control over the release of information and the ability to centralise (sic) a vast amount of fragmentary evidence.” (Legal limbo hampers probe into missing MAS plane)

“Apparently, the world does not care enough about the fate of the passengers of MH370,” Wiseman said, “because search operations are now getting scaled back.”