Originally Posted by
Neogen
Onetrack - or they sighted the radar return, informed the chief, RMAF scrambled the jet and overzealous RMAF .....
One fact for sure: Malaysian officials have given ambiguous, inaccurate and at times directly contradictory information since the aircraft's disappearance.
I just don't see RMAF getting all the way through the chain of command from the radar grunt, to whoever has authorization to shoot down bogeys, to a fighter jet, in the amount of time it takes for a 777 to go from the point where transponders were shut down to the point where it exited Malaysian waters on the way into the big unknown (30-40 min), at 2 in the morning.
When Soviets shot down KAL 007, it took 2.5 hours to get the ducks lined up and to give an order to fire.