News Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crash

[Yanick]

And the plot http://gma.yahoo.com/malaysia-airliner-kept-pinging-indication-crashed-indian-ocean-194746310--abc-news-topstories.html?vp=1.

I read an article several days ago in which the author interviewed investigators who look into these sorts of events and the possibility of pilot suicide struck me as very odd. I mean, if you hate your life and such, why would you kill so many people along with yourself? Just do it in peace and alone (CO poisoning via car exhaust for example).

If it is true that two independent communication systems were shut off at different times, I would strongly entertain some type of hijacking or something. What would be the point of turning off communications systems if the pilot(s) simply wanted to off themselves? I would imagine just doing a nose dive into the ocean would be sufficient, but I'm not expert in these things.

 

[arildno]

And the plot http://gma.yahoo.com/malaysia-airliner-kept-pinging-indication-crashed-indian-ocean-194746310--abc-news-topstories.html?vp=1.

I read an article several days ago in which the author interviewed investigators who look into these sorts of events and the possibility of pilot suicide struck me as very odd. I mean, if you hate your life and such, why would you kill so many people along with yourself? Just do it in peace and alone (CO poisoning via car exhaust for example).

Ever heard of school and workplace massacres? It is a very common pattern that the perpetrator kills himself afterwards.

To go out in a blaze of glory might lessen the barrier to perform the act of suicide.

 

[Borek]

why would you kill so many people along with yourself?

It is called an extended suicide. Not that rare.

Compare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990

I am not suggesting anything, it is just not unheard of.

 

[Yanick]

Yes, I understand that these things happen. I just find it a bit strange, is all.

I'm not sure you can parallel a pilot suicide event with something like a school/workplace massacre. The former involves literally just killing complete strangers, maybe a couple of flight attendants who the pilot would be familiar with. Things like school or workplace shootings occur in environments where there is some type of familiarity with the people, the location etc. I don't mean to over generalize and over simplify here, by the way, but it is fairly common that the perpetrator of a massacre of some sort has either been, or perceived to have been, slighted, offended etc. Obviously there are many exceptions and each case is pretty much individual, but from what I know of the latest school shootings and such in the US, there is usually some type of connection between the perpetrator and the location/people, even if there is no hard evidence about the motive.

So it is not that I don't believe that these things happen, I just can't imagine how screwed up a person's mind must become to literally just sentence complete strangers to death. People who could not possibly have had any affect on one's life. It is no different to random acts of terrorism, except that terrorist do it for some ideological reasons. "Extended suicide" just sounds like a wishy-washy euphemism. It should just be called cold blooded murder.

 

[arildno]

"I just can't imagine how screwed up a person's mind must become to literally just sentence complete strangers to death. People who could not possibly have had any affect on one's life"
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Well, I can easily imagine that. Because I don't buy into a progressivist dogma that humans are "essentially" good, so that bad actions "must" be explained that the perpetrator felt slighted in some way by the victims.

The idea that humans are "essentially" good is so ingrained in society that you need not consciously adopt any such dogma, yet still be influenced by the false logic of it.

Once you fully and consciously discard that dogma, you suddenly see how pervasive, in big and small ways, that dogma really is.

 

[SteamKing]

A clarification

http://news.yahoo.com/rolls-royce-concurs-malaysia-missing-jets-engine-data-100810333--sector.html

LONDON (Reuters) - Rolls-Royce said on Friday it concurred with denials from the Malaysian government that reports a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet may have flown on for hours after it vanished from radar screens were not true.

The first sentence of the Reuters report has been further clarified to remove the words "were not true." from the end of the opening sentence of the article. Trying to parse the original sentence could make your head explode.

 

[nsaspook]

The source of plane position data from the 'ping' is interesting if true. If it were from a normal, open and official source you would think that it would have used from the beginning to direct the search. This leads me to believe it's being derived from a secondary source as we are moving the search into areas that the operators of the plane and local officials say they have no information on. It's possible to have a direct intercept but if the pings were to a Inmarsat/Iridium system like Aero L that's on the network but not actively sending data it's possible a 'system internal or external of the Sat operator' with access to raw link data ("transport layer") could also be the source of position information.
http://www.canadasatellite.ca/Inmarsat-Aero-L-H-H-I-s/2142.htm

From WSJ:

Malaysia Airlines said it hadn't received any such data. According to Boeing, the plane's manufacturer, the airline didn't purchase a package through Boeing to monitor its airplanes' data through the satellite system."

The US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the situation by name, said the Boeing 777-200 wasn’t transmitting data to the satellite, but was instead sending out a signal to establish contact.Boeing offers a satellite service that can receive a stream of data during flight on how the aircraft is functioning and relay the information to the plane’s home base. The idea is to provide information before the plane lands on whether maintenance work or repairs are needed.

Malaysia Airlines didn’t subscribe to that service, but the plane still had the capability to connect with the satellite and was automatically sending pings, the official said.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/satellite-bleep-deepens-unprecedented-malaysia-airlines-mystery/story-e6frg6so-1226854490107

 

[jim hardy]

Now the rumors are it was tracked passing waypoints used by airliners headed toward mideast and Europe.

http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big...ts-missing-malaysia-airlines-mh370-flown-deli

n a far more detailed description of the military radar plotting than has been publicly revealed, the first two sources said the last confirmed position of MH370 was at 35,000 feet about 90 miles (144 km) off the east coast of Malaysia, heading towards Vietnam, near a navigational waypoint called "Igari".

The time was 1.21am.

The military track suggests it then turned sharply westwards, heading towards a waypoint called "Vampi", northeast of Indonesia's Aceh province and a navigational point used for planes following route N571 to the Middle East.

From there, the plot indicates the plane flew towards a waypoint called "Gival", south of the Thai island of Phuket, and was last plotted heading northwest towards another waypoint called "Igrex", on route P628 that would take it over the Andaman Islands and which carriers use to fly towards Europe.

The time was then 2.15am. That's the same time given by the air force chief on Wednesday, who gave no information on that plane's possible direction.

A fellow on pprune ( A self described blog for RUMORS) posted the day of disappearance a suggestion it went that direction, a couple days later posted an aero chart with a course drawn on it to Yemen with no coment.
I wonder who he is and what he knows.

It's worthy of Tom Clancy.

 

[SteamKing]

Now the rumors are it was tracked passing waypoints used by airliners headed toward mideast and Europe.

http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big...ts-missing-malaysia-airlines-mh370-flown-deli



A fellow on pprune ( A self described blog for RUMORS) posted the day of disappearance a suggestion it went that direction, a couple days later posted an aero chart with a course drawn on it to Yemen with no coment.
I wonder who he is and what he knows.

It's worthy of Tom Clancy.

Or Ian Fleming.

 

[Borg]

I can't believe that the plane landed anywhere. Once the passengers realized that they weren't where they should be, they would have turned on their cell phones. Sooner or later one of those phones would connect with a passing cell tower and there would be a record of it. Maybe some NSA spook could look that up.

 

[Evo]

I can't believe that the plane landed anywhere. Once the passengers realized that they weren't where they should be, they would have turned on their cell phones. Sooner or later one of those phones would connect with a passing cell tower and there would be a record of it. Maybe some NSA spook could look that up.

If they had their phones and if they were alive.

 

[Borg]

If they had their phones and if they were alive.

A phone left on in their luggage (in the cargo bay) would also ping towers as it passed.

 

[Borg]

Now the rumors are it was tracked passing waypoints used by airliners headed toward mideast and Europe.

http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big...ts-missing-malaysia-airlines-mh370-flown-deli



A fellow on pprune ( A self described blog for RUMORS) posted the day of disappearance a suggestion it went that direction, a couple days later posted an aero chart with a course drawn on it to Yemen with no coment.
I wonder who he is and what he knows.

It's worthy of Tom Clancy.

I looked on pprune and ran into one interesting bit on info on the potential engine pings. It was mentioned that the pings identify the engine and not the aircraft. If the engines were swapped, they could be on a different aircraft.

 

[arildno]

I looked on pprune and ran into one interesting bit on info on the potential engine pings. It was mentioned that the pings identify the engine and not the aircraft. If the engines were swapped, they could be on a different aircraft.

Why should the pinging then have stopped, as it has done?

 

[Borek]

I looked on pprune and ran into one interesting bit on info on the potential engine pings. It was mentioned that the pings identify the engine and not the aircraft. If the engines were swapped, they could be on a different aircraft.

But swapping engines is more complicated than swapping slippers or gloves, so I find it hard to believe nobody would notice engines were on a different plane.

 

[Czcibor]

A phone left on in their luggage (in the cargo bay) would also ping towers as it passed.

People should switch off their mobiles before loading them to cargo bay. Setting aside all matters concerning that's required, doing otherwise would be a wasting of batteries.

 

[Borg]

Why should the pinging then have stopped, as it has done?

Good point. It was a quick post as I was walking out the door. It was one of the last posts on that forum and nobody had thought about that yet. Of course this assumes that people are continueing to look. If the engines were on a different aircraft, it could have landed for the night (five hours later) and would stop pinging when the engines shut down. If the ping search was only done for that day, the engines could be pinging today. I would hope that someone is still looking for pings from the engines but, I'm always nervous about making assumptions.

But swapping engines is more complicated than swapping slippers or gloves, so I find it hard to believe nobody would notice engines were on a different plane.

According to the members on that site, engine swaps do occur often enough for this to be thought about. But, as arildno pointed out, they should have started pinging again eventually.

 

[Borg]

People should switch off their mobiles before loading them to cargo bay. Setting aside all matters concerning that's required, doing otherwise would be a wasting of batteries.

Just noting another scenario where phones could ping a cell tower. I wouldn't even put a phone in my luggage but I would bet that there's a phone or two in every cargo hold. Someone who's careless enough to put a phone in their luggage doesn't seem to me to be someone who is going to be careful about turning it off.

 

[lisab]

Just noting another scenario where phones could ping a cell tower. I wouldn't even put a phone in my luggage but I would bet that there's a phone or two in every cargo hold. Someone who's careless enough to put a phone in their luggage doesn't seem to me to be someone who is going to be careful about turning it off.

Totally agree. But we don't know what the cell companies know. Perhaps they did get pings, reported them, but didn't go to the media about it.

Seriously, what percent of the population would forget to turn off a device, or just disregard the rule -- maybe 1%? Maybe 5%? Well, there were over 200 people on that plane.

And I wouldn't limit that to only people who put their phone in luggage.

 

[Pythagorean]

A Malaysian government official involved in the probe told the Associated Press on Saturday that investigators are now certain that one or more people with significant flying experience hijacked the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, switched off communication devices and steered it off-course. The official said that hijacking was "conclusive" and no longer just a theory.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/03/14/malaysia-airlines-search/6409061/

 

[gfd43tg]

If the plane was hijacked, I don't think the hijackers successfully landed it, even somewhere remote. Someone would have noticed it, and the passengers would have starting calling on their cell phones.

 

[jim hardy]

Is there any group on Earth who:

1. Is sophisticated enough to pull this off
2. Would want for hostages a hundred Chinese artists, twenty or so electronics experts on western military stuff, and a handfull of Malaysian civilians?
3. Is crazy enough ?

 

[Monique]

1) Phones do not need to be turned off with all airlines
2) Phones still ping when turned off, in a similar manner that the airplane still pinged with communication devices turned off

 

[Pythagorean]

Sources told the Reuters news agency on Friday, meanwhile, that the path Flight 370 appears to have taken after diverting from its intended route strongly suggests that a trained pilot was still in control of the aircraft.

The news agency said investigators believe the missing jet appeared to follow a known air navigational route, based on the radar blips seen by the Malaysian military.

That would have taken the plane into the Andaman Sea and toward the Indian Ocean, and according to Reuters, "could only have been set deliberately, either by flying the Boeing 777-200ER jet manually or by programming the auto-pilot."
Reuters cited another source as saying the official investigation was increasingly focused on the possibility that someone with training as a pilot deliberately diverted the flight.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysi...still-no-answers-in-search-for-missing-plane/

 

[Monique]

1) Phones do not need to be turned off with all airlines
2) Phones still ping when turned off, in a similar manner that the airplane still pinged with communication devices turned off

I can't trace the answer to point 1, and I don't know where I've heard point 2 (probably some crime show on TLC). Anyway, here some support:

from: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...3cf4-f0b1-11e2-bed3-b9b6fe264871_story_2.html
By September 2004, a new NSA technique enabled the agency to find cellphones even when they were turned off. JSOC troops called this “The Find,” and it gave them thousands of new targets, including members of a burgeoning al-Qaeda-sponsored insurgency in Iraq, according to members of the unit.

 

[Pythagorean]

Apparently, the cellular network is acting as if it can't locate the phones:

27. What about reports that passengers' cell phones continued operating after the flight's disappearance?

The answer to the question about meteors and conspiracy theories applies here, too. When phones are disabled or turned off -- which would presumably happen after a plane crash -- calls to those cell phones go directly to voice mail. Friends and loved ones of the missing passengers, however, reported ringing when they called. Technology industry analyst Jeff Kagan says a call would connect first to a network before trying to find the end user, and the ringing sound callers hear masks the silence they would otherwise hear while waiting for the connection to be made. "If it doesn't find the phone after a few minutes, after a few rings, then typically, it disconnects, and that's what's happening," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/13/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-questions/

Which implies they're out of reach of cell phone towers. I think this could be the case whether the plane is crashed or hijacked.

 

[Pythagorean]

Here you go:

Missing Malaysian Jetliner: Could Phone Tracking Help?

Locating the mobile phones of the 239 travelers on the Boeing 777 that vanished Saturday isn't as simple as activating a "Find My iPhone" app, given the speed the plane was traveling, its altitude and the fact it was probably flying over water. Many people assume smartphones to be all-powerful tracking devices. Often police, rescue units and others can use a person's phone to pinpoint the user's precise location. Even so, there are large portions of the planet that don't have the transmission towers that are necessary for mobile communications. In the case of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, smartphones are unlikely to lead investigators to the plane.

http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0330042BAMG9

 

[Borg]

It's pretty clear that someone was deliberately attempting to conceal the flight path and it looks like it was headed toward the Indian Ocean. What if one of the pilots decided to kill himself and didn't want to ever be found. What would be the best way? Could the plane have been soft landed in the middle of nowhere so that it floods quickly with little or no floating debris?

 

[nsaspook]

It's pretty clear that someone was deliberately attempting to conceal the flight path and it looks like it was headed toward the Indian Ocean. What if one of the pilots decided to kill himself and didn't want to ever be found. What would be the best way? Could the plane have been soft landed in the middle of nowhere so that it floods quickly with little or no floating debris?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...e-paths-for-missing-malaysia-airlines-flight/

If it flew deep into the Indian Ocean and crashed we might not ever find it. I just don't see how it could have flown the Northern track and been missed by paranoid military operators in that part of the world as an incoming 'UFO'. The released map shows the mirror image of possible ping locations (not a flight path) seen with stationary single detector tracking when dealing with just a EM signal time and phase delays/shift wavefront. I'm pretty sure the official positioning is much narrower due to additional data that's being kept private so far.

If the officials have hard evidence that this was something other than a mishap I think they have an obligation to at least say how they know that without giving away details. If it's impossible for this to be an accident then say it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...-11e3-af5f-4c56b834c4bf_story.html?tid=pm_pop

In the most comprehensive account to date of the plane’s fate, Najib drew an ominous picture of what happened aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, saying investigators had determined there was “deliberate action by someone on the plane.”

 

[arildno]

Well, if the plane did go the northern route over India and Pakistan, say, there is no particular reason why we should expect either of these countries to be forthcoming with what they know and, also, what they DON'T know.

To publicize their own military surveillance capacities (or the limitations of it) would be tantamount to disclosing state secrets.

 

[nsaspook]

Well, if the plane did go the northern route over India and Pakistan, say, there is no particular reason why we should expect either of these countries to be forthcoming with what they know and, also, what they DON'T know.

To publicize their own military surveillance capacities (or the limitations of it) would be tantamount to disclosing state secrets.

They don't have to be forthcoming, for obvious reasons the US closely monitors that area for alert activity. We might not directly see what they see but we do see their reactions to events in near real-time and have a very good idea about the limits of their capabilities. An incoming object the size of a 777 simply can't be missed with active air search radar looking for targets. You see all kinds of weird crap on long range air search radar moving in all directions from ducting and random reflections but when it's steady and headed your way you tell someone about it.

Maybe the Aussies can find something on their systems (Jindalee Radar) after a review but the plane looks to have been tracking away from it if it went south.
https://www.airforce.gov.au/Technology/Surveillance44-Command-and-Control/Jindalee-Operational-Radar-Network/?RAAF-dq9yQKwX6WliV2hNVcj38sG4oMWiAMtQ

 

[Czcibor]

On Polish media (one of the main TV station) there is a rumour that in cargo of that plane there were a few tones of gold. (if it was true then many of already knowns pieces of info would suddenly have logic...)

I'm waiting whether this got confirmed or debunked.

 

[arildno]

Right now, I'm beginning to think Ernst Stavro isn't dead, after all.

 

[Borg]

On Polish media (one of the main TV station) there is a rumour that in cargo of that plane there were a few tones of gold. (if it was true then many of already knowns pieces of info would suddenly have logic...)

I'm waiting whether this got confirmed or debunked.

I saw something like that on the other forum thread that I've been reading. It started with one troll post at 6am today and it's been like candy to the conspiracy nuts on the thread. Not one link to a single source though - just a lot of ifs, ands and maybes about how the crew landed in a secret location to offload the gold. Even if there was any gold, the main problem is that the flight crew wouldn't know about the manifest until right before the flight. That doesn't give them any time to plan or coordinate something out of a Tom Clancey novel.

 

[Czcibor]

I saw something like that on the other forum thread that I've been reading. It started with one troll post at 6am today and it's been like candy to the conspiracy nuts on the thread. Not one link to a single source though - just a lot of ifs, ands and maybes about how the crew landed in a secret location to offload the gold. Even if there was any gold, the main problem is that the flight crew wouldn't know about the manifest until right before the flight. That doesn't give them any time to plan or coordinate something out of a Tom Clancey novel.

Thanks for info.

I thought that at this moment coolheaded people create stories in style of Tom Clancy. This time, to become a conspiracy nut, one would have now write a story in style of Stephen King :D

 

[SteamKing]

I saw something like that on the other forum thread that I've been reading. It started with one troll post at 6am today and it's been like candy to the conspiracy nuts on the thread. Not one link to a single source though - just a lot of ifs, ands and maybes about how the crew landed in a secret location to offload the gold. Even if there was any gold, the main problem is that the flight crew wouldn't know about the manifest until right before the flight. That doesn't give them any time to plan or coordinate something out of a Tom Clancey novel.

Yeah, right. Like no one's ever had their luggage pilfered and things taken from a commercial flight. I'm pretty sure any reputable insurance company covering such a shipment would insist on a wee bit more security than this.

 

[StevieTNZ]

A new twist:

Someone deliberately diverted Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and shut down communications with the ground, and the jetliner continued flying for six hours, Malaysia's prime minister said Saturday.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11220613

 

[nsaspook]

Just another data point on why the southern path is more likely. Being hijacked to land in Pakistan or anywhere else north is a real stretch when most of the facts now point to crew interference or a weird set of non-deliberate events that mimic that.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...airspace-Kolkata-ATC/articleshow/32091364.cms

Speaking to TOI, air traffic controllers' guild secretary Sugata Pramanik said that while flight MH370 could have avoided detection on the Secondary Surveillance Radar, the blip by the huge Boeing 777-200 ER aircraft would surely have been spotted by the Air Force that uses Primary Surveillance Radars to detect such intrusions. Any flight that moves in the north-western direction towards Kazakhstan from Malaysia, as suggested by Razak, is bound to pass through Kolkata Flight Information Region. (FIR).

"If an aircraft wants to avoid being seen, they can easily become invisible to a civilian radar by switching off the transponder that relays information about the plane. But it cannot avoid defence systems. The Indian Air Force has radars in multiple installations across the country and it is inconceivable that none of them spotted the odd blip with no flight clearance," he said.
...
There are nine Air Defence Identification zones in the country that are manned 24x7 to prevent an enemy aircraft from violating Indian airspace.

Guild member Sushil Mondal concurred, explaining that all hell would break loose if Air Force detected an aircraft that did not have air defence clearance. Any plane flying through Indian airspace is first required to submit the flight plan and manifest to the air traffic controls in its flight path. This is then relayed to the Air Force for permission.

 

[m k]

Any idea how many satellite pings there have been?

 

[nsaspook]

Any idea how many satellite pings there have been?

Most reports don't have an exact number but once or twice a hour is what I've heard. Unfortunately extra pings captured by one geostationary bird at the edge of it's coverage still generates a huge arc of possible positions (unilateration/near or far) that can't be used to narrow the flight path just from that information. You need extra timing data from separate points to use Multilateration/TDOA with fixed detectors in space.

One thing we might be able to deduce from a single detector at that distance is if the plane seemed stationary (at the same measured distance) over several pings. It could mean the plane is circling at a point, landed or is following the arc path.

 

[mheslep]

Right now, I'm beginning to think Ernst Stavro isn't dead, after all.

If only. Ernst would have long ago released a hand-on-the-cat video demanding fat stacks and we'd know what had happened.

 

[mheslep]

An incoming object the size of a 777 simply can't be missed with active air search radar looking for targets.

There's a range limit with every radar. With the aircraft's transponder turned on range is about http://public-action.com/911/transpon/ Turn off the transponder and detection range used by commercial aviation ground radar falls greatly, and of course identification is gone.

US military radar can throw out a lot more power, but it can not be everywhere, or look everywhere, at the same time.

 

[arildno]

If only. Ernst would have long ago released a hand-on-the-cat video demanding fat stacks and we'd know what had happened.

Eeh, I think the cat is dead??

 

[mheslep]

Eeh, I think the cat is dead??

Copy cats.

 

[arildno]

Copy cats.

Lol!

 

[nsaspook]

There's a range limit with every radar. With the aircraft's transponder turned on range is about http://public-action.com/911/transpon/ Turn off the transponder and detection range used by commercial aviation ground radar falls greatly, and of course identification is gone.

Sure nothing is all powerful, not even OTH radar that can see for thousands of miles but my point about detection was about fixed defense radars (mainly in India and Pakistan) and their early warning aircraft. The released 'ping' map of possible locations shows it could have been over a huge swath of Earth's land and sea out of the range of almost anything but I think the reports of paths near India air space are unlikely.

India has a very advanced early warning system including a modern BMD.
http://zeenews.india.com/news/natio...e-being-used-for-9/11-type-attack_918414.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish_Long_Range_Tracking_Radar

 

[m k]

You need extra timing data from separate points to use Multilateration/TDOA with fixed detectors in space.

Can we assume something from it?
Like no major distance changes.

How about a fake ID, like swap with something that never took off?

 

[mheslep]

but I think the reports of paths near India air space are unlikely.

Those types of long range radars are large, usually fixed location, and expensive. I'd expect those that India has are oriented towards Pakistan and not out over the vastness of the Indian ocean.

 

[nsaspook]

Those types of long range radars are large, usually fixed location, and expensive. I'd expect those that India has are oriented towards Pakistan and not out over the vastness of the Indian ocean.

I agree and that's mainly why I think the plane was lost there (Indian ocean) and never came close (<300 miles) to a large populated land mass that a nation like India would try to protect from a 9/11 hijack type event.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/indian-search-for-missing-malaysian-plane-on-hold/2014/03/16/ff3764be-acc8-11e3-b8ca-197ef3568958_story.html

“So far no sighting or detection has been reported by the units deployed for searches in various designated areas,” India’s Defense Ministry said in a statement Sunday.

“The Malaysian authorities have now indicated that based on investigation, the search operations have entered a new phase and a strategy for further searches is being formulated. Accordingly, search operations have been suspended and all Indian assets earmarked for search operations have been placed on standby,” the statement said.
...
Vinod Patney, a retired air force officer, said it was unlikely - but not impossible - for an aircraft to intrude a country’s airspace undetected.

Officials said there was effective radar coverage in the region, with a large number of flights between Europe and Southeast Asian using this route. Also, India has tightened security in the area, which is a strategic shipping lane for oil tankers.

 

[Dotini]

Focus has shifted to the pilot. According to controversial reporting, he was in the midst of an emotional meltdown.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-trial-jailed-opposition-leader-sodomite.html

The object of his emotions, one Anwar Ibrahim, is featured in this up-to-the-minute wiki article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Ibrahim

The lid is somewhat lifted on internal Malaysian politics. Malaysia has affiliations with western nations.