Originally Posted by
MickG0105
Okey doke, so just to be clear, based on how a different airline configured a different model Panasonic IFE on a different airplane type, you believe that "in all probability" 9M-MRO had a hitherto undisclosed and undocumented pax cabin SATCOM air-to-ground telephony capability? Seriously?
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
The Factual Report has two statements regarding the two SATCOM calls made from the MAS IOC to MH370 that states, "This call would have been routed to the cockpit and....".
These are redundant statements if the calls could only go to the Flight Deck and implies the calls could have been routed elsewhere on the aircraft.. Its not proof that the capability was there, but its hardly a revolutionary capability and certainly not type specific.
I have attempted to verify if the capability was present but am yet to receive an answer
The fact also is that we dont know what was omitted from the Factual Report. The report already contains at least one glaring error when it states that the fuel burn difference between the left and right engines was 1.5T per/
hour instead of per flight.