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Old 13th Mar 2019, 15:20
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double_barrel
 
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Originally Posted by davionics
Witness accounts need to be impeccably interpreted. Surprised to see witness accounts publicity released so fast.

I believe they are worthless. A colleague who works on eye witness interpretation comments:
  • These witnesses appear to have discussed with each other, so contaminated each-other’s recall, so they are not independent witnesses, rather one compound account
  • The account will have passed through a non-specialist translator with their own pre-conceptions and interpretation.
  • With all due respect to these farmers, they likely have no experience of any technology other than perhaps a mobile phone and a bus
  • Even the best witnesses mix-up the sequence of events in fast and traumatic events, tales of fire/smoke in plane crashes are literally text book examples
Also, in case anyone is unaware, there are dozens of fake videos circulating in Kenya and presumably elsewhere. I was shown one yesterday purporting to be from inside ET302 as it went down, I was shown this by an intelligent person who truly believed that it had been sent to a friend by her son on the flight. Sick, but all this nonsense adds to the cloud of confusion and hysteria.
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