Originally Posted by
Pace
Lonewolf
I would have thought the very opposite as an aircraft which had lost radio and transponder identification the first obvious place to look would be along set airways?
Did it?
I don't know the airway structure here but an early map showed a possible route passing through or near a number of reporting points. It was said, I believe that these did not represent an airway but a flight along the FIR boundary.
I am guessing that the RPs were on the boundary for traffic
crossing the boundary not flying
along it.
If one wants to confuse then flight along an FIR boundary is a good way of doing it as authorities might assume the aircraft was in contact with the opposite agency.