‘OUR CEO WENT TROPPO!’ BUSINESS NEWS: The international iron, steel, and aggregates conglomerate SCP Mining and Metals, is to close down all operations in South East Asia. All assets are to be liquidated but job losses will be kept to a minimum, a company spokesman said today. The UK company, which boasted offices in Piccadilly, […]
‘A POLITICAL FANATIC’ – BUT ALSO ‘FANATICAL ABOUT HIS JOB, HIS FLIGHT SIMULATOR AND HIS D.I.Y. VIDEOS’ Leaders of the opposition Pakatan Rakyat Party in Malaysia have dismissed a report in the Mail on Sunday that the Captain of Malaysian Airlines MH370 was a ‘political fanatic’ and that this may have something to do with […]
EFFORTS MADE TO AVOID RADAR DETECTION – PILOT MUST HAVE HAD KNOWLEDGE OF BOEING 777 – BUT WHO AND WHY? Stopping short of using the word hijack Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announce today that Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 ‘appeared to be intentionally steered off course by at least one person with considerably flying experience.’ […]
BUT INFO STILL COMING FROM ANONYMOUS SOURCES. Bloombergs wire service is today reporting that Malaysian Flight 370 sent its last signal from the Indian Ocean off Australia. The pulses provide no data about the plane’s speed, location or altitude. Still, they allow calculations of an arc along the earth’s surface where the plane was each […]
Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary The Thai holiday island of Phuket made the headlines this week on account of the fact that the passports of two foreigners which were stolen there were later used by Iranians to board flight MH370. It almost made the news again as Phuket and the Andaman Sea were included in the […]
Canadian Police have issued a child sexual abuse arrest warrant for a lawyer, who is reported to have fled either to Thailand of Cambodia. John David Coon is wanted by the Ottawa Police Service after they “began an investigation following a complaint of a sexual assault on a minor by an adult male during the […]
MH370’S ENGINES DID NOT TALK Malaysia’s defence and acting transport minister Hishammuddin said this afternoon that Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 did not send out signals from its engines. This was confirmed by Rolls Royce. Nevertheless the search had now been extended to the Indian Ocean (average depth 13,000 – deepest at Java Trench 26000) in the […]
With news now coming from the Wall Street Journal and followed up in most of the international media that Malaysian Airlines MH370 flew on for another four hours, this site is now taking a break for a few hours, out of respect for the families and to allow Rolls Royce, to confirm that the engines […]
An occasion I will be missing tonight is a seminar at the Foreign Correspondents of Thailand by the De Vere Group. The notice of the meeting says ‘suggested payment 200 baht to charity’. A better one would read perhaps 200 baht to journalists! The all charitable De Vere group has been involved in massive internet […]
SO WAS OIL RIG WORKER RIGHT AFTER ALL? Satellite images released by the Chinese authorities now show possible aircraft wreckage 141 miles from its last known radar location and very close to where a New Zealand oil rig worker reported seeing a plane going down. After massive speculation which included the rejection of Michael McKay’s […]
Andrew Drummond is a British independent journalist and occasional television documentary maker. He is a former Fleet Street, London, journalist having worked at the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Observer and The Times.