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Captain's Log - DOI archive entry 01.10.2016 

Via Chillit's 7th Arc blog... :

Australia’s Struggle With Insanity
Posted on September 30, 2016 by Mike Chillit 



The critical “7th Arc”, where MH370 is believed to have crashed, is 4,000 km long in the Indian Ocean, and stretches from Java, Indonesia to -40° South. The 7th Arc appears to be reasonably correct, but less than 25% of it has been searched by Australia’s ATSB, which has lead investigative authority. In spite of not finding anything in the original 60,000 square kilometers, Australia has repeatedly refused to search any other portion of the 3,000 km that remain unsearched.

I will have all vessel AIS information for a 300 km strip on each side of the entire Indian Ocean’s 7th Arc sometime next week. Both “Satellite-AIS” and “Terrestrial-AIS” versions for a 4,000 km strip of ocean. Everything. Deliverables for the now awarded RFP posted one week ago include a graphic of vessel locations between midnight March 5, 2014 and midnight March 10 / 11, 2014. I will also use accompanying digital information to prepare graphics in my own format, but the contractor’s effort to provide its own version is greatly appreciated.

Separately, I will encourage one or two research analysts I trust to conduct their own review of the data. More eyes are better than fewer eyes in all complex analyses, from my point of view. The goal, of course is to identify vessel positions that might help determine where best to look for the missing plane. I continue to place a fair amount of trust in the “7th Arc”. It’s one of the meager bits of information we have that seems to actually be helpful. I have tried to find fatal problems with the 7th Arc construct, and one or more may yet emerge, but so far I have always come back to it as one of the few fairly useful metrics we have.

As readers will know if they follow my mumblings on Twitter and here, the commercial cargo vessel “Stella” was within 150 km of ATSB’s “crash location” at 00:19 UTC March 8, 2014 when ATSB claims the plane crashed in “Penguinville”. And Stella was headed directly into the plane’s descending flight path. If the plane had been anywhere in the area, it would have been seen to within a gnat’s eyelash of absolute certainty. Yet, to my knowledge, no one connected to any Australian entity has attempted to speak to the ship’s Captain or owners to determine if anything was seen. There were thin patchy clouds overhead, but it was daylight in the early morning hours of Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere.

The obvious explanation for the absence of reports from the Stella crew about a crashing airliner is that it did not crash anywhere near where Australia has been searching for nearly three years. There is no other plausible explanation.

If you are in charge of an important investigation, how do you justify closing your mind and all of your senses to the things that were going on at the time you believe such an important event happened? How can you do your job when you close yourself to everything that is at odds with what you prefer to believe? It’s known as being DELUSIONAL.

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