"MH370 THE SECRET FILES." A book by Nigel Cawthorne.

This is the fifth book I've read on MH370, and for the best part they've all had something valuable to offer. Well, three anyway - this being one of them.

It's incredibly satisfying reading these books and coming across the statements of those who have been involved in the 'search and rescue' exercise for MH370, along with the numerous bullshit nonsense that flies in the face of what we know as being fact.

Having personally extensively investigated and tracked this case from the end of March 2014, I can spot the red spot on the Dalmatian before I see it!

So, other than to praise Nigel for a well-written and informative book, I thought I'd mention some of the areas I found especially interesting.....

The Cellular Phones ~ As I've mentioned in my first report on MH370, there were two calls placed in quick succession, both from the First Officer's handset. The data of those call records was in possession of a telecommunications provider, after the calls had registered through a cell tower in the vicinity of Penang. They refused to supply the specifics of those calls. Was this their own sole decision or did they have some 'encouragement' from governmental sources? Authorities had indicated that they tried calling one of the MH370 passenger phones which was given to them, and that the call failed to connect. However, some crew phones did 'ring out' [terminology for reaching the exchange limit of rings before diversion to messaging or 'unavailable' announcement being presented to the caller.] This lead the relatives to believe information was being hidden/withheld. Certainly - what did the airline/government have to hide? I understand from a source of mine within the aviation industry that it is common practice for cabin and flight crew to leave their phones on.

Inmarsat ~ MH370 made regular communications to Rolls Royce and to Boeing. These were routed via Inmarsat services. However, it is understood that the system Malaysia had on-board was an older and earlier version which did not supply GPS co-ordinates.

Tracking ~ India's Rear Admiral claims it's possible that their country's military radars where switched off, as they operate on an 'as-required' basis. Surely this is a huge concern from a defence perspective. Thailand's military also took a rather laid-back response to an unidentified aircraft flying near to [but not in] their airspace. Malaysia's Butterworth base was equally delinquent in their slap-happy non-response.

The Malaysian military claim the aircraft climbed to FL450, then fell to FL230 in less than a minute. Investigators don't believe the readings, and I certainly wonder whether those changes are possible within the minute time frame.

Comment was made that there was nowhere in the Archipelago to land a Boeing 777 without attracting attention. Well there was certainly one flying through over the Maldives on the morning of March 08 2014. It was observed by local Maldivian's who described it and matched the identification of MH370 both in size and colors. From there it flies south and over the Archipalego and onto a straight line-up for finals at Diego Gar'CIA.' The atoll of Diego Garcia is THIRTEEN [13] FEET ABOVE MEAN SEA LEVEL! This would definitely make it look like MH370 had crashed at sea. How convenient!

A pilot who spent years as a First Officer on 777's said some of the aircraft data is transmitted from equipment outside the flight deck, making it even harder to avoid leaving an electronic trail. Aviation consultant Chris Yates made a comment that even an experienced pilot would find it a struggle to pull off this vanishing act. Former Home Office scientific advisor, Dr Leivesley, said hackers could change the speed, altitude and direction by sending radio signals to the FMS. The systems for locating aircraft are less sophisticated than those tracking cellular phones?

Air Force chief General Tan Sri Rodzali Daud alleges that 370 changed course after Kota Bharu and took a lower altitude, turned into the Malacca straight before the signal was lost. He says, "Some things I can tell and some things I can't. There are spots in the world where you can not communicate."

They say this now, but at the time they knew not what aircraft was in their airspace - or such is the illusion they present us with.

The Flaperon ~ Comments have been forthcoming that the Malaysian government and Malaysia Airlines have behaved in a very dismissive manner from the very beginning and showed their bumbling incompetency. I certainly won't challenge that!

So.... to the flaperon.....

Both Malaysia Airlines and the Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak, made statements respectively about the flaperon, 'conclusively confirmed,' and, 'indeed' as being from MH370. The flaperon was sent to France for metabolic testing. The astonishing thing is that there is nothing to validate which aircraft it belonged to. Nothing in writing. No report. Why would a part for an American aircraft be sent to France for testing? Doesn't make any sense.

A maintenance seal and paint color on the flaperon were alleged to match Malaysia airlines records. But an Australian official said the paint was not a unique identifier for MH370. The same batch was used on all Boeing aircraft when they were manufactured.

There was virtually no apparent compression damage to the flaperon leading edge. It was unlikely to have been attached upon any impact, given this to be the case.

The barnacles also flag concern, as I have previously detailed in my Agent reports. The barnacles are from a species which lives well to the north of the search area. The ID plate was missing off the flaperon. Modifications didn't match the maintenance records of Malaysia Airlines. The work they claim they had done didn't match the discovered piece.

So, there is even more coming to the surface than we expected. Just that it's not exactly what we were ultimately wanting.