Originally Posted by
hoss183
........deliberate disabling of the transponder?
It is NOT known, NOT factual, that the transponder was deliberately disabled.
What IS known is that the transponder signal ceased. There is a huge difference.
That cessation could have been as a result of someone deliberately switching it off OR as a consequence of electrical malfunction/interruption.
Please: stop perpetuating conjecture as fact. Better still, stop relying on the media for facts, or on these various opinion pieces by blokes trying to make a name for themselves. I know the Aussie lead investigator personally and know what the ATSB line of thinking was. I have been in the ATSB conference room in Canberra looking at the plotting chart and all the evidence to date. I have seen some of the bits of the aircraft they have recovered.
I know for "a fact" that much of what has been published in the media is conjecture and speculation, as opposed to reasoning based on actual evidence.