uhhhmm..here we have many things similar to what happened on 9/11.
Aircraft diverting and no too much ATC enquiry about it.
The military "got distracted" at the beginning.
Many different scenarios proposed and then a direct accusation, in this case to the pilots, that will make all the parties happy isn't it?
So the Malaysian government is saying that the only way to detect an "intruder" is having the transponder ON?
If the intruder has it OFF the military will not intervene cause the spot is too tiny and almost invisible to the radars?
What sort of radar they got not detecting a 70 x 70 meter airplane without transponder?
No datalink from the 777 to the MAS HQ after the initial turn back?
The Vietnamese promptly reported to the Malaysian that the aircraft turned back and the Malaysian did not reply at all. It was silence, silence, silence.
It seems to me a very bad managed inside job.
May be those 2 pilots and the crew were really able to "stop the plan".
Otherwise why the Malaysian Government let 8 country search the aircraft where the Malaysian knew very well it was not even close to that area?
A similar accident happened in Italy in 1980 where in the following 10 years 40+ military people died in very strange circumstances. Al those people were witnesses of the ditching of the Itavia DC9 in the Mediterranean sea.
Hope no strange accidents will happen in the future the those military that for sure have witnessed many things and are now under an enormous amount of pressure from their Government and not only.