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Via the Sun Daily:

MH370: Experts dispute dive theory
Posted on 10 August 2016 - 10:07pm
Last updated on 11 August 2016 - 01:27am

Update to 'HSSS' bollocks -

Today by 'that man' in the Oz :

ATSB secretly retracts its consensus claim on MH370 ‘death dive’


The Australian
12:00AM August 12, 2016

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An Australian government agency has secretly retracted its claim that international scientists and air crash investigators had reached consensus that ­Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went down quickly in a “death dive” rather than being flown to the end by a “rogue pilot”.

The backdown indicates that the Australian Transport Safety Bureau no longer commands unanimous support among its global advisory group for a public relations narrative it is running in conjunction with the Malaysian government and Malaysian Airline System Berhad.

ATSB chief commissioner Greg Hood went on the offensive this week in an interview with The Australian to try to discredit the theory that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah hijacked his own aircraft and glided it outside the current search area.

Mr Hood insisted analysis of Inmarsat satellite tracking data by Defence scientists had ­concluded that MH370 rapidly descended in an unpiloted crash.

The ATSB has previously claimed it had “consensus” for that view within the Search Strategy Working Group, made up of experts from Inmarsat, Boeing, the US Nat­ional Transportation Safety Board, aerospace group Thales, the British Air Accidents Investigation Branch, the Malaysian Department of Civil Aviation and the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation.

It has abandoned that claim, without acknowledging it has done so or explaining why.
Aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey, a member of the independent group of MH370 expert observers, spotted the deletion of the “consensus” claim through a computer change tracker, and revealed it to The Australian.

On July 27, in its regular weekly bulletin, the Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre, established by the ­federal government to direct the search for MH370, promoted the ATSB’s theory that the aircraft went down ­suddenly.

It downplayed FBI findings that Zaharie had run a simulated flight to the Indian Ocean on his home computer that closely matched the zigzag route the Boeing 777 took. MH370 went missing on March 8, 2014, on a scheduled flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Mr Godfrey said the most likely explanation for the “consensus’’ removal is that one of the experts on the strategy group complained that they did not support such a conclusion.

“Another possibility is that it was assumed there was a ­consensus, but then some party complained and the published report had to be changed.”

JACC director Annette Clark, ATSB spokesman Daniel O’Malley and Transport Minister Darren Chester’s office ­refused to answer questions about MH370, while the ATSB spokesman who issued the July 27 bulletin, Tim Dawson, hung up when asked to explain the ­deletion. Mr Hood did not respond to a request for interview

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