Malaysia Airlines missing jet: Thailand gives radar data 10 days after plane lost

[magical thyme]

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Thailand's military said on Tuesday that its radar detected a plane that may have been Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 just minutes after the jetliner's communications went down, and that it didn't share the information with Malaysia earlier because it wasn't specifically asked for it.

Montol said that at 1.28am, Thai military radar "was able to detect a signal, which was not a normal signal, of a plane flying in the direction opposite from the MH370 plane," back toward Kuala Lumpur. The plane later turned right, toward Butterworth, a Malaysian city along the Strait of Malacca. The radar signal was infrequent and did not include any data such as the flight number.

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Butterworth has a military airport with 11,000 foot runway and entrance over water. This again suggests a catastrophic event and pilot attempting to get to closest safe landing.

[Blue_Tires]

1. I'll just say the supposed cooperation of the countries involved

has been less than ideal from the beginning...

[Glimmer of Hope]

2. It doesn't sound like that they were pro-active at all.

[Iliyah]

3. Heard that on the radio news and hubby and I shook our heads

[jakeXT]

4. Indonesia would be more interesting, but they won't even allow overflights /nt

[Thor_MN]

5. They were waiting for "Do you have any information, ASSHOLE?"

[SoapBox]

6. There is something going on...

Seems to be more concern about power and control, than those 239 human beings.

This thing is a mess.

[magical thyme]

7. since it was military radar, some countries may have been reluctant to share

and yes, this thing is a mess.