EXDD:
"If the FDR isn’t there, a criminal investigation needs to be conducted as to who paid whom what amount of money and for what purpose to move it, or, what other circumstances led to its disappearance, or even its return to the site."
What info has led to this statement?
Slats:
There have been speculation for some time that the wreckage has been disturbed. It has been rumoured this was done in getting the recorders.
I have no knowledge if this is true or not, but these rumours have been going around for a while.
For those interested this was referenced several times in the infamous closed Senate thread and on here earlier on in the year...
Yakkity Yak shades of Hempel - Part one
{Fascinating rumour: Talk around the Norfolk Island traps (BRB 
) is that there is a photo floating around of an open access panel to the black box??..
}
Yakkity Yak shades of Hempel - Part two
From the PBRP (Pirates Bar Room Plunderers..
) the story goes that the rover had roped the tail and the locals were all geared up to retrieve the black box. However then mi..mi..mi beancounter Beaker got the trembles and put the khybosh on it citing OHS issues, decompression chambers and of course limited funds...
...then the locals offered (for next to nothing) to drag the wreck towards the shore where the ocean bed rises up to a depth of 30m, thus allowing recovery of the box through a normal freedive. They again were all set to go and had lined up the local freighter to snag the mooring rope with it's anchor, but again Beaker got all squeamish and refused to give the green light...so..so close but no cigar!
..rumour amongst the PBRP is that the box is now proudly sitting on someone's mantelpiece in yonder Norfolk Isle..
Now you can see why this tale has
shades of Hempel, in both cases the necessary crew was ready and eager but the powers to be got cold feet right on the vinegar stroke..
I'll be back!
