@dicksorchard. Nothing like some political noise to keep people stirred up. Does BFA to help find the missing aircraft, however ... comments on the criticisms from the political opposition.
He indicated that it was even possible that there was complicity by authorities on the ground in what happened to the plane and the 239 people on board.
Gee, political opposition indulges in speculation about the evil in current party in power. Straight out of Politics 101 playbook. Not original.
It was “not only unacceptable but not possible, not feasible” that the plane had not been sighted by the Marconi radar system immediately after it changed course.
I'll suggest the man has never served a day in uniform, nor ever sat at a radar console on the mid watch.
The radar, he said, would have instantly detected the Boeing 777 as it travelled east to west across “at least four” Malaysian provinces.
Indeed, if it was on, operating as advertised, and manned.
Mr Anwar said it was “baffling” that the country’s air force had “remained silent”, and claimed that it “should take three minutes under SOP (standard operating procedure) for the air force planes to go. And there was no response.”
Maybe nobody told the Air Force Planes to go. Maybe they were not in the Alert 5 status at midnight-ish on a Friday night.
He added: “We don’t have the sophistication of the United States or Britain but still we have the capacity to protect our borders.”
Fair statement.
It was “clearly baffling”, he said, to suggest that radar operators had been unable to observe the plane’s progress.
Maybe they saw it and it didn't register that something was well out of order. See above: midnight to dawn shift, your A side is probably not on watch.
@mickjoebill: why would they leave the navlights on if it's a human up to no good? If it was a "something's wrong" scenario, interesting idea there.