Not someone.. EVERYONE.. countrys with modern(ish) militarys operate early warning radar 24/7 It's common practice to record all data and time stamp it for incidents exactly like this.So punter are you basically saying that someone using radar that night should have it's last position before it went below radar ? So who the fuck and why the fuck are they keeping it a secret. I am in agreement that something doesn't seem right about this whole thing.Radar works night and day..Something seriously STINKS about this investigation.
There are multiple long range radars in the area from bases & warships. Each logs their raw radar video for weeks. The raw radar "paint" data shows altitude trajectory
I was in the Royal Navy for 6 years. Airliners are the easiest thing in the planet to track. We used to see them 900 miles away, our raw paint used to correlate perfectly with the IFF transponder data.
This is not the south Atlantic. SE Asia is congested with lots of countries close by.. probably even a few warships in the area to.
Asian incompetence/retardness... or just lack of cooperation and national pride?
.......but it did take 5 days to find the wreckage of Air France 447. This incident was at night so maybe there wasn't much activity nearby plus reduced vision. Although I see what you mean: odd that were told the plane's last known position was over the sea and now they are searching land?
Also Air france crashed literally in the middle of the Atlantic between Americas and Africa..
The Gulf of Thailand is a very cozy little area, with lots of bases, lots of radars constantly tracking and probably a few warships.
If it blew up the radar paint would have just disappeared
If it crash landed you'd be able to see the altitude gradually drop
May? these things are not ambiguous.. it either stayed on track or it turned around.. there's no may about it..Malaysia's air force chief said early Sunday that military radar indicated the missing jet may have turned back to Kuala Lumpur
And they've indicated they're actually looking at military radar so surely they'd be able to ascertain if the thing flew 300miles west, across the country and into the Andaman sea
We have RAF Flyingdales in the UK