Malaysia misled search allies over MH370 crash search

[FarCenter]

Confirmation that Malaysia’s military knew exactly where Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was until the minute is disappeared near a rocky outcrop in the northern approaches to the Straits of Malacca on Saturday morning would mean it mislead 10 allies, including Australia, into participating in a farcical and costly search for the missing Boeing 777-200.

Australia, China, Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and the United States were among the countries that deployed significant resources into efforts to find the jet which had 239 people on board, and vanished from civilian air traffic control radar screens about 42 minutes after it departed Kuala Lumpur for Beijing at 12.40 am on 8 March.

But MH370, which had its identifying transponder switched off, was according to national media tracked all the way to a low altitude location near Pulau Perak (Silver Island) by Malaysia’s military radar.

What is even more reprehensible about such a search circus is that one of the speakers at the daily press conference was Malaysia’s defence minister Hishammuddin Hussein, who must surely, as the responsible member of government, have known what the military openly revealed to the media in Malaysia yesterday.

The minister absented himself from yesterday’s search update conference in Kuala Lumpur to participate in a flight to western Malaysia in the newly expanded search area, which had actually been extended no later than sometime early on Monday.

It is possible that Hishammuddin Hussein flew to the site of the crash yesterday on that flight.

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2014/03/12/malaysia-mislead-search-allies-over-mh370-crash-search/

Pulau Perak is a rocky outcropping housing a lighthouse and Malaysian Army radar.

[Swede Atlanta]

1. The response (or lack thereof) by the Malaysian military is very suspect.....

I am not a conspiracist but it appears to me someone is covering something. Why would they not have immediately said they had some important evidence that suggested the aircraft had diverted from its original flight path.

[Loudly]

4. I liken it to the Pakistani army not letting us know

that Bin Laden lived down the street from their national military academy.

To cover for radical Islam.

[Gravitycollapse]

2. Incompetence or conspiracy. Pick your poison.

[shraby]

3. Reuters is now reporting that the military is denying they said any such thing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/11/malaysia-airlines-plane-search_n_4945387.html