Originally Posted by
onetrack
Hishahmuddin's statement on the Four Corners program was pretty clear on the delay relating to the release of the Immarsat information - Malaysia just wanted it verified.
However, I fail to see where it would take 3 days to verify it - particularly when there was an urgent SAR operation in progress.
There speaks someone who has never had to review 'the tapes' of an international incident.
The information would need to be checked and double checked by the appropriate experts to ensure that attention was not taken away from current search by incorrect assumptions.
Then the release would need to be cleared by the company managers/directors and the wording of any documentation and information release very carefully checked.
Lawyers will have been required to check the INMARSAT liability for the use of the information by foreign SAR and the contractual and legal (data protection) terms that may limit the release of 'private' information. Given the amount of technical, legal and administrative work involved, INMARSAT getting the information out in only 3 days was startlingly efficient.