'I could even make out the plane's doors': Inhabitants on tiny remote island in Indian Ocean

[Surya Gayatri]

saw low-flying jet on morning MH370 went missing and plead with investigators to visit them so they can share their story.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3025270/I-make-plane-s-doors-Inhabitants-tiny-remote-Island-Indian-Ocean-saw-low-flying-jet-morning-MH370-went-missing-plead-investigators-visit-share-story.html

Locals from the Maldives island of Kudahuvadhoo claim they saw a low-flying jet on the morning MH370 disappeared

The island is over 5000 kilometres away from the current search area

Members of the community say it was so low they could see the plane's doors and make out the distinctive colouring on the side of the jet

Locals made statements to verify what they had seen to officials

Curtin University acoustic scientists say they recorded 'distinctive' noise from the area at the presumed time of the crash

[Cooley Hurd]

1. If it were flying low enough to make out the colors of it...

...then it's likely it crashed nearby (unless it *was* hijacked and the low altitude was on purpose to stay out of radar).

[Surya Gayatri]

2. Histoire à suivre, as the French say. To be continued...

[Cooley Hurd]

3. According to the NY Post (I know... blecch), this was known last year...

http://nypost.com/2014/03/19/residents-on-remote-island-we-saw-missing-plane/

Residents of a tiny island in the middle of the Indian Ocean say they saw a “low-flying jumbo jet’’ four hours after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished from radar for the last time, according to a report Tuesday.
The residents live on the remote island of Kudahuvadhoo in the Maldives — which has an international runway that was among five that the plane’s pilot had used for practice on his home flight simulator, according to the Malaysian daily newspaper Berita Harian.
Kudahuvadhoo residents told the paper that the massive plane they saw rumbling above them at around 6:20 a.m. March 8 had Malaysia Airlines’ trademark white body and red stripes.
“I’ve never seen a jet flying so low over our island before,” one witness said. “I could even make out the doors on the plane clearly.”

So, I'm guessing this was already vetted?

[KittyWampus]

4. thing is, this would be close to last established flight trajectory, IIRC.

[Cooley Hurd]

6. I believe you're right:

[Surya Gayatri]

5. Hard to say...

This is the date line on the article...in the DM, admittedly...

Published: 06:06 GMT, 4 April 2015 | Updated: 12:25 GMT, 4 April 2015

[Cooley Hurd]

7. Maybe it's getting a second look?

The Curtin University data is certainly interesting.

[Surya Gayatri]

8. ^^^This!^^^

[thecrow]

9. I cannot believe they didn't look into this already.

This came out shortly after the plane went down. I remember doing the google on it.

[malaise]

10. Yep this was in the news very early

and dismissed by the establishment.
There were also more than a few rumors about the role of interests in Diego Garcia.