Jindalee OTHR
Jindalee is an OTHR using High Frequency transmissions determined by an FMS A frequency management system.
It has three main lobes.
But only one transmitter with a steerable beam at a secret location.
The time of the alleged transition of the Malaysian flight, it has been suggested occurred off the beam when the radar beam was looking North.
Debate will occur as to if any HF OTHR operating in the 17-24 MHZ band would have propagation at that time of day/night.
And why ask Jindalee why not ask the Russians and the UK one on Cyprus and all the other OTHRs operating at the time,
To find out if you had HF prop between central Australia and Malaysia...
You would need the sounder data from Xmas island, but it would be easy using IPS charts on the day to see the MUF on the NW path to see if the OTHR would have produced a paint, which would be just a dot and have to be correlated with other radar data from Malaysia to join the dots.
I think if the RAAF have data they have given it to their Orion pilots and it maybe the reason why the search area has been narrowed slightly.
I still ask the question (please don't shoot the messenger) if the aircraft was under pilot/hijacker control, how did the people involved control 200 passengers for 7 hours going into daylight over vast expanses of ocean.
When it would become obvious that they weren't going to China?
As in Boston a few passengers could easily overcome the person guarding them and the longer the standoff went on the more determined the people would become to find out what was going on and try something.
And so far no one on board appears to be a radical...bent of self destruction 3000km out in a remote ocean. what would be the point?
Last edited by ZAZ; 20th Mar 2014 at 02:58.