MH370 – Between facts and myths

After more than 3 months of agony and shooting blanks, the MH370 saga is still muddled by myths than facts. People are still guessing and extrapolating from myths and not wanting to know the facts and starting on another wild goose chase based on their beliefs and gut feels.
 
What is really important now is to go back to facts, what was known, from the ground and on radar and radio. What were the last know contacts, I mean seen by the controllers on the radar screen and not by someone who believed he had seen something that might look like MH370 or they believed could be so. The radar contacts will be the most important primary source of where MH370 was before disappearing, its location, heading, height and speed.
 
The next important information will be the radio conversation between air traffickers and the captain or co pilot. And it will really be good if the military radar stations could come out with positively identified radar contacts and not some fabrications. Stick on to confirmed radar blips and information and then work on from there.
 
Based on the reports in the papers today, the aircraft was flying into the Indian Ocean. If that was so, which radar station had positive contacts on their screens? Forget about the Immarsat handshake as it did not have any positive location of the aircraft. If there was anything of real value, it was only the initial handshake. After that, all the arcs were unreliable but just extrapolation.
 
The investigators must get real and positive radar identification as proof that the aircraft was heading into the Indian Ocean. Do they have any? If the aircraft was flying over the Indian Ocean, the Indonesians were the best people to pick it up. The Indians could possibly pick up as well in the Andaman region. If both countries did not, then why? The Australians were unlikely to see anything.
 
The search in the southern Indian Ocean is likely to be extrapolation and nothing else and the reliability is very low. Unfortunately, based on what were reported, the known facts were very limited unless the Indonesians and Indians could offer more. If both could not show anything, the Indian Ocean theory is as good as fabrication.
 
When the radars failed to provide more new evidence, the best people to be able to unravel this mystery or conspiracy will be the intelligence people, working on the paper information available and their sources. The technical experts could not go any further than 100km from the last know sightings on radar. To believe that they could guess where the aircraft could be, thousands of kilometers away, is as good as believing where God is. And I think believing in God would have more credibility than believing in these technical experts when real information was so few and so limited. There are real limitations on what the technical experts can do if the only thing they knew was the location of the aircraft in the South China Sea and nothing else.
 
It is unbelieveable that the Australians are rehashing the same plot that the crew were all suffering from hypoxia and were not in control of the aircraft. So were the passengers and none of them knew what was happening and were unconscious all the way, at the same time. The fact was that the crew could turn make a U turn which required tremendous conscious effort but following that they were unconscious after switching the aircraft to auto pilot and point it to the Indian Ocean. Why would they want to point to the Indian Ocean? Another best, no radar station picked up any blips from the aircraft on their radars. They expect the whole world to be stupid enough to believe in this story.
 
Well some do, and some pretended to do so, and are mounting another huge search operation in the Indian Ocean. And all of them are not boy scouts but adults, professionals, but doing things that innocent and ignorant boy scouts would do, wasting millions of dollars and resources on a wild imagination.

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