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Originally Posted by Peter B - CV8
If it was a gradual thing & the plane kept flying on for hours - then it would have appeared on someone's radar at some point.... The fact is that it just simply disappeared. The structural flaw/sudden catastrophic event scenario seems the most likely (at least to me).
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But this is the thing - the only way it will turn up on civil aviation radars are if the transponder is active.
However military radars are 'active' and will pick it up regardless of whether it has a transponder or not, and the families gathered in KL are cracking the ***** because authorities arent detailing what (if any) information gathered from military radars that could potentially solve this awful riddle.
Now Vietnam has cracked the ***** and pulled out of the search citing misinformation and incompetence coming from Malaysia about where to search etc.
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