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Old 3rd Jun 2016, 13:42
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Re "mystery" reports on MH370...

It has taken aviation a long time to develop present standards, procedures, formats and fact-checking to which the investigative process and final report must adhere.

While there are clear signs that we are rapidly leaving the age of rationality and enlightenment values, there are some human activities which remain within rationality's purview; - the investigative process is one.

The "mystery" document reads like all other conspiracy-theory publications. It survives on curiosity and pure volume of text and pictures, trying to be what it can never possibly be: the final report.

Sunfish, re the MSR804 ACARS tea-leaves, fully concur with your views. I recall the sometimes-wandering, sometimes quasi-prescient discussions of the AF447 ACARS messages which, until the 3rd Interim Report remained a logical mystery. It was a long time before even just the timing of the messages was understood and that such did not necessarily indicate which occurred first. When all was revealed, it was an interesting exercise to compare the various theories put forth with the actuality after the recorders had been read.

It is not the first time that reference here to various aspects of the remarkable series of threads discussing the loss of AF447 has been made, and with good reason I think.

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