As expected the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline have come in from some stick from the family of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the skipper of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370. Mailonline had published a couple of stories, the first said that Captain Zaharie was a political fanatic who was upset that Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia’s opposition leader […]
With a distinct possibility that the wreckage spotted today in the Indian Ocean by five different aircraft will be from flight MH30 British Airways has been forced to abandon an appallingly timed advertising campaign. Screens in railway stations in the London, notable Euston, carried the advert ‘Escape the commute and discover the Indian Ocean’. It […]
FACT, RUMOUR OR JUST SPECULATION? With reports today from a pilot colleague alleging thar Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was ‘probably in no state to fly’ because his life was crumbling due to marital problems – more and more pressure is being put on the Malaysian Government for straightforward answers. The latest report comes from a […]
NO MORE BS EXPECTED – BUT AUSSIE’S REMAIN CAUTIOUS. RAAF and RNZAF Orion aircraft were today rushing to a location 2,500 km south west of Perth where items which may be debris connected to flight MH370 have been seen floating in the sea. Also due on location was a United States Air Force Poseidon aircraft. […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Vietnamese search and rescue teams were put back on alert today after a New Zealander working on an oil rig has now claimed he saw the plane disappear off the Vietnamese coast near Vung Tau. Doan Huu Gia, deputy general director of Vietnam’s air traffic management confirmed authorities had received the email from Mike McKay, […]
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.