HCM is in South Vietnam. That may be a little south of the turning point of MH370, but that point is certainly not 'north of Vietnam', which extends a long way north past Hanoi at the top of the Gulf of Tonkin.
In the next paragraph FR24 refer to the 'handshakes .... leading to the current search area in the southern Indian Ocean', but that takes no account of the fact that the handshakes pointed to a northern and a southern arc.
Arising out of this, my questions are:
- Why was the northern arc never searched properly?
- Why was it abandoned so quickly?
- Why don't FR24 refer to it?
- The glossary defines ELT as Emergency Locator Transmitter. "Activated automatically upon impact, the ELT emits distress signals ... to locate the aircraft's position swiftly". Can the ELT be turned off with the other aircraft information systems as Zahiri is supposed to have done?
- I have not come across a reference to ELT in all the reading and research I have done. If there was no ELT transmission from MH370, why was that?
- I know there were supposed to be some bleeps from the 'black box', but as I understand it, they were never verified. There would be no emission of ELT if the plane were safely landed somewhere, would there?
- As far as I know there have never been any details of what the mega spyware kept by the USA at Pine Gap in Australia, and on Diego Garcia, knew about MH370. They can monitor almost anything almost anywhere on the planet. If MH370 turned south when it passed the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, it was about 1800 miles from Diego Garcia. If it flew south, and if it passed east of Diego Garcia, it was only about 1000 miles away, and if it reached the search area west of Perth, it was within range of Pine Gap too. Am I wrong about all of that?
- Has anyone asked the USA what it knows about the plane? If so, what did the Americans say?
Tezza.
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