MH370 may have been spotted by military radar, but Thailand didn’t share until now because it wasn’t asked
BANGKOK — Thailand’s military said Tuesday that its radar detected a plane that may have been Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 just minutes after the jetliner’s communications went down, and that it didn’t share the information with Malaysia earlier because it wasn’t specifically asked for it.
A twisting flight path described Tuesday by Thai air force spokesman Air Vice Marshal Montol Suchookorn took the plane to the Strait of Malacca, which is where Malaysian radar tracked Flight 370 early March 8. But Montol said the Thai military doesn’t know whether it detected the same plane.
A Malay daily Berita Harian reported Tuesday that an investigation of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s homemade flight simulator discovered the runways of five airports near the Indian Ocean loaded into it.
It was too early to reach a conclusion about the significance of the new finding, an unnamed source told the paper.
The simulation programs are based on runways at the Male International Airport in Maldives, an airport owned by the United States (Diego Garcia), and three other runways in India and Sri Lanka, all have runway lengths of 1,000 metres.
Mayasia’s Defence Minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, denied Monday that the plane had landed at US military base Diego Garcia, but the source said this site will still under investigation based on the data in the flight simulator.
Additionally, several residents of the Maldives have reported seeing a “low-flying jumbo jet” at about 6:15 a.m. the morning MH370 went missing.
“I’ve never seen a jet flying so low over our island before. We’ve seen seaplanes, but I’m sure that this was not one of those. I could even make out the doors on the plane clearly,” an eyewitness told Haveeru Online.
Thailand’s failure to quickly share possible information regarding the fate of the plane, and the 239 people aboard it, may not substantially change what Malaysian officials know, but it raises questions about the degree to which some countries are sharing their defense information, even in the name of an urgent and mind-bending aviation mystery.
MH370 may have been spotted by military radar, but Thailand didn’t share until now because it wasn’t asked
BANGKOK — Thailand’s military said Tuesday that its radar detected a plane that may have been Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 just minutes after the jetliner’s communications went down, and that it didn’t share the information with Malaysia earlier because it wasn’t specifically asked for it.
A twisting flight path described Tuesday by Thai air force spokesman Air Vice Marshal Montol Suchookorn took the plane to the Strait of Malacca, which is where Malaysian radar tracked Flight 370 early March 8. But Montol said the Thai military doesn’t know whether it detected the same plane.
A Malay daily Berita Harian reported Tuesday that an investigation of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s homemade flight simulator discovered the runways of five airports near the Indian Ocean loaded into it.
It was too early to reach a conclusion about the significance of the new finding, an unnamed source told the paper.
The simulation programs are based on runways at the Male International Airport in Maldives, an airport owned by the United States (Diego Garcia), and three other runways in India and Sri Lanka, all have runway lengths of 1,000 metres.
Mayasia’s Defence Minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, denied Monday that the plane had landed at US military base Diego Garcia, but the source said this site will still under investigation based on the data in the flight simulator.
Additionally, several residents of the Maldives have reported seeing a “low-flying jumbo jet” at about 6:15 a.m. the morning MH370 went missing.
“I’ve never seen a jet flying so low over our island before. We’ve seen seaplanes, but I’m sure that this was not one of those. I could even make out the doors on the plane clearly,” an eyewitness told Haveeru Online.
Thailand’s failure to quickly share possible information regarding the fate of the plane, and the 239 people aboard it, may not substantially change what Malaysian officials know, but it raises questions about the degree to which some countries are sharing their defense information, even in the name of an urgent and mind-bending aviation mystery.
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