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Originally Posted by HardDrive
This is an area of the world that not seen foreign aggression (yes, I'm familiar with the Vietnam war, you know what I mean) in many moons. Not a lot of need for civil air defense.
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That's just one factor. I don't have confidence that the Malaysians even know what questions to ask to figure out the rest of the equation. Are they leading the investigation, or just getting their cues from the New York Post?
OK, so let's say you have no military radar. How else can you figure out what happened to the plane? Civilian radar/air traffic control? That of neighboring countries? When the flight went missing, what notices were put out around the region that you've got a jumbo jet with 200+ people MIA? What did those foreign eyes in the sky see? Seems like transponder or none, it's still a bit hard to hide something the size of a 777 up in the sky when you have some idea of where to look within an hour or two of the plane going missing. How does the plane fly for 4-7 more hours after going dark and no one figures that out until days later?
When do you put in that call to Boeing that you've lost a plane they've built and you need the specs to help you find it? Does no one at Malaysian Airlines know how these planes are built and their systems work? Has the minister of whatever tried asking one of the fellow 777 pilots for some help in figuring this out?
When do you pay a visit to the homes of the pilots to check them out? A week later? Or was it a day later? Whose got the right story? Minister dude or the chief of police?
What's the point of having a passport for international travel when no one seems to check to see if the passport's valid or not? The best the head security dude can say is that one of the stolen passport travelers looked like a Brazilian footballer because of his dark skin? That's the level of sophistication we're talking about? Fk, you might as well have me be the sketch artist. I can draw stick figures real good.
When do you call in foreign/neighboring nations to help you look for the plane? Again, a week later? How often does the search pattern expand by several orders of magnitude on a daily basis, instead of the other way 'round?
These Malaysian yahoos have bungled the search and investigation to a ridiculous degree, and that's putting it nicely. They couldn't find their way out of the proverbial paper bag.