A new report by UK Daily Mail has indicated that the missing Malaysian plane, MH370, which has been missing for 71 days was accidentally shot down by US-Thai fighter jet. Read the rest of the story from UK Daily Mail....
The grieving family of missing Malaysia Airlines
Flight MH370 have criticised the timing of a
new book that claims the plane may have been
accidentally shot down and the search for
survivors covered up.
The family of missing Brisbane man Rod
Burrows say they are at pains to understand
how still, after 71 days of ongoing global search
efforts, no one knows what happened to
the missing plane which vanished on March 8
and how a book could be released so soon
after.
Flight MH370: The Mystery makes the
incredible claim that the airline was shot down
by US-Thai joint strike fighters accidentally as
part of a training drill gone horribly wrong. The
book goes on to claim the search party was
purposely sent in the wrong direction as part of
a cover up.
Irene Burrows, Rod's mother, told the Sun Herald
that the book had been released too soon, and that
despite the speculation, it offers no concrete
answers. Read more after the cut
'There's absolutely no answers,' she said. 'It's
devastating for the families, it's been 10 weeks
tomorrow and there's nothing.'
She said both her and husband George are still
trying to comprehend what happened, and that a
book full of conspiracies released just 71 days after
its disappearance, does nothing to alleviate the
pain of losing their son.
But according to the book's author, Nigel
Cawthorne, there may never be a clear answer.
He writes in the book how the Burrows, and
hundreds more in their situation, will 'almost
certainly' never know the real story behind how the
ill-fated plane vanished on March 8.
He writes: 'Did they die painlessly, unaware of
their fate? Or did they die in terror in a flaming
wreck, crashing from the sky in the hands of a
madman?'
It is then that Cawthorne makes the incredible
assertion that the plane was shot down
accidentally over the South China Sea by a joint
US-Thai joint strike fighter team, and the searchers
sent in the wrong direction as part of a cover up.
He describes how a man, while working on an oil
rig in the ocean at about the same time the plane's
transponder went off, saw a burning plane and how
this was right near the military exercise being
conducted with personnel from various other
countries.
He claims that these countries may have then sent
searchers in the wrong direction in order to cover
their tracks.
'After all, no wreckage has been found in the South
Indian Ocean, which in itself is suspicious.'
He said with the amount of disinformation
regarding MH370, it is best to be skeptical.
Cawthorne also raises more doubt into toe plane's
disappearance, claiming it could have been located
if its tracking software had been upgraded -
something that costs just £6 ($10) per flight.
According to Cawthorne the Boeing 777-200ER had
a ‘data package’ that only transmitted the most
basic flight information, so authorities weren’t able
to get a GPS fix on it.
For just $10, however, this package could have
been improved, the book says, resulting in far
more detailed information about the 777's
movements being pinged.
‘For US$10, you could have told within half an
hour’s flying time where the plane would have
gone,’ a source told the paper.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, meanwhile,
has called for real-time tracking of planes and
improvements to their communication systems to
prevent a repeat of the 370 tragedy.
In an opinion piece published on Wednesday in the
Wall Street Journal, Najib called for changes that
would ‘make it harder for an aircraft to simply
disappear, and easier to find any aircraft that did.’
‘One of the most astonishing things about this
tragedy is the revelation that an airliner the size of
a Boeing 777 can vanish, almost without a trace.
In an age of smartphones and mobile Internet,
real-time tracking of commercial airplanes is long
overdue,’ he said.
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