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LTGB Part III: KL right of reply? - via the URM (URM - Unmanned remote Muppet)

In what would appear to be a pre-emptive move, early yesterday the Malaysian's deployed their SMH URM (incognito with beard on) to the ABC studios in Can'tberra & here is what they had to say in defence of recent Senior Airline Pilot's assertions that the Pilot did it..

Renewed speculation over the fate of MH370

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Broadcast:Wednesday 13 January 2016 8:05AM (view full episode)
Image: Co-pilot Brett McKenzie of the Royal New Zealand Airforce helps to look for objects during the search for missing MH370 (Pool/Getty Images) Link to larger image.Image: Co-pilot Brett McKenzie of the Royal New Zealand Airforce helps to look for objects during the search for missing MH370 (Pool/Getty Images)

There's been renewed speculation about the fate of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, nearly two years after its disappearance.

Now, senior airline pilots from Australia, Britain and the US claim the search team's theory of oxygen deprivation could be wrong.

They're suggesting a rogue pilot steered the plane down.

The clock is ticking; the Federal Government expects the search will be called off MH370 in June this year, after covering 120,000 square kilometres.

Martin Dolan, Commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is leading the search, joins Sarah Dingle on Summer Breakfast.

Which has led to 'That Man' updating the running commentary in the Oz today:

‘No push to drop rogue theory’

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The head of the MH370 search has ­denied Malaysia was applying pressure to reject theories a ‘rogue pilot’ flew it to its end.

The head of the Australian organisation searching for Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 has ­denied Malaysia was applying pressure to reject theories a “rogue pilot” flew it to its end, but said the Malaysians support that approach.


Australian Transport Safety Bureau chief commissioner Martin Dolan told The Australian the Malaysians accepted the ATSB’s determination the satellite tracking data for the last part of the flight was consistent with the crew being disabled by lack of oxygen from decompression or otherwise “unresponsive”.

In an ABC radio interview yesterday, Mr Dolan rejected assertions by veteran commercial airline pilots that MH370, which disappeared with 239 people aboard on March 8, 2014, on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, was most likely hijacked by captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and flown right through to ditch in the southern Indian Ocean.

“We have certainly considered that as a possibility; all the evidence we have at the moment says that is very unlikely,” he told the ABC.

As reported by The Australian this week, former US airline captain John Cox said the fact MH370 ended radio contact and radar transponder transmission early in the flight, and flew a course right along the airspace boundary between Thailand and Malaysia before turning south, points to an “intentional act” by the pilot to try to avoid detection.

Mr Dolan said the ATSB was concerned only with what happened to MH370 after it made its final turn south. “Speculation about who might have done what and why … is the responsibility of the Malay­sian investigation and secondly is not important to our job, which is to find the aircraft.”

He said there was no need to change the priority search area to include a “rogue pilot” ­theory because satellite tracking data indicated the plane was not subject to pilot inputs on the last long leg and was on autopilot.

Some observers in the aviation community have suggested Mal­aysia was pressuring Australia to ignore the possibility the captain hijacked his aircraft because it could be construed as a political act, since he was a strong supporter and relative of opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim.

Mr Dolan said: “The Malaysian government is aware of and supports the basis on which we have determined the priority search area.”

He denied Malaysian authorities had asked the ATSB to ignore the rogue pilot theory.

How can you tell when the URM is under direct control from Malaysia? The felt lips are moving & a couple of seconds later, rising slowly in crescendo, you can hear mi..mi..mi..mi..mi..mi
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