Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't find the exact quotes buried several days ago in the thread.
But haven't all of the statements from Malaysia denying ACARS messages been very cautiously worded, and stopped short of complete denials that there was any signal received by ANYONE, ANYWHERE?
The first statement, from several days ago, if I recall correctly, seemed to be "the last message MAS rec'd was at 1:07" and then the next sentence was worded a bit differently--"no distress signals were sent."
The wording the other day was that the US claims were "inaccurate," and that Boeing, RR and MAS did not receive any ACARS messages -- but that does not exclude the possibility that someone else DID receive this (or something).
And I thought Boeing and RR themselves did not directly comment.
I've just thought that these "denials" have stopped short of complete denials, and indeed, have been awkwardly worded in so doing.