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the Sun daily
New MH370 theories
KUALA LUMPUR: Ten weeks after the mysterious disappearance of MH370 while headed for Beijing, new theories are still emerging.
A book about the missing flight suggests it may have been shot down during a military exercise and the accident is being covered up, while former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad believes the plane did not crash but “is somewhere, maybe without MAS markings”.
Flight MH370 – the Mystery, written by Anglo-American author Nigel Cawthorne, cites anonymous sources to suggest that misinformation was released so the search would concentrate on the wrong area, The Sun-Herald newspaper in Sydney reported today.
The book, the first to be published about MH370 and which goes on sale today, cites a claim by New Zealander Mike McKay that he saw a burning plane from the oil rig he was working on in the Gulf of Thailand on March 8, the day the plane went missing.
Cawthorne links McKay’s supposed sighting to joint-US military exercises in the region at the time, saying if MH370 was accidentally shot down during live fire exercises, “those involved would have every reason to keep quiet about it”.
He even suggests that if the flight black box is found, it could be a fake planted by those involved in the cover-up but he added: “I’m not saying that’s what happened.”
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1049339
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ONE OF THE BOOK’S BASIC ARGUMENTS IS THAT IF ONLY MAS HAD SPENT US$9 MORE PER FLIGHT, MH370 WOULD HAVE BEEN TRACKED BY A GPS FIX!
Nigel Cawthorne, Flight MH370: The Mystery
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MailOnline
MH370 could have been found if airline bosses had paid just £6 to upgrade tracking software, claims new book
The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is the most extensive and expensive ever undertaken, but it’s been claimed the plane could have been located if its tracking software had been upgraded – something that costs just £6 ($10) per flight.
According to new book Flight MH370: The Mystery, 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 six pounds, however, this package could have been improved, the book says, resulting in far more detailed information about the 777’s movements being pinged.
The book, by Nigel Cawthorne, says: ‘Along with several other carriers, Malaysia Airlines had opted for a cheap data package for its aircraft that transmitted only minimal information rather than pay an additional small fee to transmit detailed flight data.’
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名為《MH370客機之謎》（Flight MH370: The Mystery）的新書指出，肇事的波音777-200ER所用的是“數據套裝”，即是只會傳送最基本的飛行資訊，但如果馬航願意多花10美元，升級軟 體，提供該客機更為詳細的資訊，外界就有可能找出它的位置。（台灣《蘋果日報》）
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