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Old 29th Oct 2014, 08:38
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slats11
 
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Thanks Exoixx. That fills in a few blanks. I never saw that story. Will try and find it on line.

The timing still looks very odd.

MH370 goes missing on evening of 7 March UTC, and the world knows its missing by morning of 8 March UTC. The circumstances of disappearance are highly unusual from the outset - e.g. no distress call.

Inmarsat hand the information over on 11 March UTC. 4 days later. After Inmarsat had specifically very recently looked into applying this technology to track a missing plane (as a result of AF447).

I find it difficult to believe Inmarsat took days to discover they actually had this information. Or that it would take 4 days to deduce the plane kept flying for many hours after lost contact.

Did someone at a high level (political rather than Inmarsat) sit on this for a long time? Just one of the many questions surrounding the early response to this incident.

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