No news
I think we'er all frustrated by the lack of concrete evidence in this case. Obviously so are the journalists who keep coming up with sensational claims, unconfirmed rumours and technical impossibilities to keep their reports fresh. The FL450 story persists, even though it would appear to be outside the capabilities of a heavily loaded B777. (Was anything ever said about the climb rate or how long it spent up there?) A phone call made by the captain before take-off (already done to death) and now a phone call from the FO - or was it his girlfriend or a family member for whom he bought a phone? Passengers alive and well in Kandahar, or dead over the South China Sea? Claims that the aircraft was flown like a fighter - or was it a Cessna? The fact is, we don't know what the facts are, and journalists are still milking the story in the hope of getting a scoop - if somehow their stories can still fit the data when the wreckage is eventually found, then so much the better for them. As for Capt Zaharie: hero, villain or victim? All we can say for sure is that he was the ranking officer on the flight deck when the flight left KUL. The rest is just hypothesis based on the facts at hand and, increasingly, journalists are cherry-picking the facts at hand to spin a coulourful tale that brings sales, but gets us no closer to the truth. Even worse, they're reporting what other reporters wrote as if it absolves them of responsibility for verifying the source.
Last edited by InfrequentFlier511; 13th Apr 2014 at 22:54.
Reason: Bad journalism takes more forms than I first thought.