the malaysian military doing when they spotted some odd flight on their radar. it seems that the plane took off at 12:41 a.m. traveled in northeast direction towards the gulf of thailand and vietnam. north of malaysia went through three military radar zones. and being spotted by four person radar team to the northwest of the country. no one saw fit to scramble any of the american-made f-18 or jets there on stand by. well shouldn t they be even more suspicious because at that point when they go to the radar it doesn t provide identifying characteristics at that point. tail numbers. weren t they the least bit suspicion the malaysian military as to what this big junk of metal in the air is doing flying through our airspace? absolutely.
the malaysian military doing when they spotted some odd flight on their radar. it seems that the plane took off at 12:41 a.m. traveled in northeast direction towards the gulf of thailand and vietnam. north of malaysia went through three military radar zones. and being spotted by four person radar team to the northwest of the country. no one saw fit to scramble any of the a f-18 or jets there on stand by. well shouldn t they be even more suspicious because at that point when they go to the radar it doesn t provide identifying characteristics at that point. tail numbers. weren t they the least bit suspicion the malaysian military as to what this big junk of metal in the air is doing flying through our airspace? absolutely.
probable? unlikely. peter, what bothers me is this boeing 77 apparently flew over very populated areas of malaysia and the malaysian air force didn t scramble jet fighters, didn t do anything as far as we know, right? that s the question. they were tracking it on primary radar which can occasionally, particularly at the outer limits, be unreliable, but naes the question. how did it come back over the island without anyone being alerted. when you ve had those incidents where a private pilot takes a left turn anywhere near washington, d.c. and everything lights up like a red alert. you know that s a measure of where the u.s. is in terms of unidentified flying aircraft. here you have an aircraft crossing one, two, three separate military radar zones. rene, you reported this notion of a pilot deliberately shutting down that so-called acars system, there s no real reason to ever do that, right?