18 March 2014 (08:56 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Jumada l-Ula 1435/27 Esfand 1392/18 Ding-Mao 4712
“On satellite surveillance, I cannot disclose who has what satellite capability, but I can confirm we have contacted every relevant country that has access to satellite data.
On analysis of radar data, in the southern corridor Australia and Indonesia have agreed to take the lead of their respective parts of the search corridor.
In the northern corridor, China and Kazakhstan have agreed to lead in the search areas closest to their countries.”-Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysian Defense Minister and acting Transportation Minister
The grossly oversized search area now covers 3.6-million square kilometers (2.24-million square miles)!
A Malaysian news source revealed they are getting inside info from contacts working at Australia’s Jindalee Operational Radar Network, a powerful over-the-horizon radar system, which can not only monitor air traffic but also ships at sea, even noting the height of waves! The news source also has contacts with Pine Gap, a joint U.S.-Australian satellite tracking station. These sources are apparently where the claims that MH370/CZ748 was “hugging the terrain”.
The same news source then rented an airline flight simulator and determined that the Boeing 777 is capable of flying at 24 meters (80 feet), or “on the deck”! However, built-in inhibitors kicked in trying to push the fly-by-wire aircraft higher: “The person would have really needed to have done his homework. But, if he referred to maps, it is possible. For airplanes like the 777-200, terrain maps are available.”–Captain Amin Said, SimFlightKL
The Royal Thai Air Force has turned over radar data indicating that it had a UFO (unidentified flying object) on its radar, that could have been MH370/CZ748. This has got Malaysian officials upset because Thailand sat on this info for a week!
The Thai radar data shows the UFO flying erratically and towards the Malacca Straight! RTAF officials explained why they sat on the info for so long: “….we did not pay any attention to it. The Royal Thai Air Force only looks after any threats against our country, so anything that did not look like a threat to us, we simply look at it without taking actions.”-Air Vice Marshal Montol Suchookorn
Don’t forget that Thailand is dealing with ongoing Obama regime instigated regime change operations, I mean ‘democratically’ motivated ‘peaceful’ protests.
Montol Suchookorn confirmed Thai military radar picked up “not a normal signal” at 01:28 hours, just minutes after communications with MH370/CZ748 and Malaysia and Vietnam were cut off. He added that the signal was not steady and did not have any identifiers.
The New York Times has started a new rumor; that MH370/CZ748’s flight computer was altered, possibly before it took off, to automatically change course at a per-determined waypoint.