MH370 - A PEEK BEHIND THE SCENES OF MY INVESTIGATION

MALAYSIA AIRLINES - MH370. Take a peek behind the scenes to discover some of the aspects I was presented with in my investigation.

Trying to find answers and truths behind any investigative case - especially aviation ones - is no mean feat; and that's just when we're talking about the professionals who are trained and make often life-long careers of it.

Of course, they're dealing with an actual crash site and the wreckage and carnage left behind, whereas I am no expert, have no training and certainly don't have any experience in the 'field' [no pun intended.]

But while I fit well outside the box of a professional - having never flown a jet or attended a crash site - I have been on many flight decks and have a fairly good knowledge of aircraft system and commercial aviation, but still way off being anything experienced. The closest I've been to any crash is seeing the FDR and CVR from the Boeing DC-10 which serviced the fatal Air New Zealand flight, TE901 on November 28 1979, where 257 souls perished on Mt Erebus, Antarctica. It's certainly an eerie feeling to be looking at the actual retrieved remains of those recording devices.

No, I can use my limited knowledge to be able to understand the dynamics of what we are 'officially' presented with by authorities, airlines, governments etc, but it's the digging for the information and data, the files, photos, videos, recordings etc which I like to think I specialise in. Sort of like a desktop jockey - so to speak. In saying that, it's a case of then being able to analyse what is found and whether it fits in with what we do know; what we have been told, or even lied to about. It requires a lot of research and being able to think outside the square and ask tough questions of what I find, such as.......

The Malaysian Government admitted to a group of fishermen seeing a low flying aircraft matching the colors, size and description of MH370 and that it was relevant to the lapsed time. They immediately went on to say that the fishermen wouldn't know what they saw, as such weren't credible witnesses and the government weren't reading anything into it. So, down track I'm reading one of my six books on MH370 which I have bought. In one, it mentions the same Malaysian government official saying he made a mistake and that the aircraft which the fishermen saw was actually a scheduled Maldivian Airlines Bombardier Dash 8. So, I go away to get a firm idea of what a Dash 8 is and I find it's a twin turbo prop 50 seater. A huge difference from a Boeing 777. Then I get to thinking - what's one of the main industries of the Maldives? Hmmm...... Tourism maybe?! So, can a large aircraft such as a 777 be capable of landing on low lying atolls such as the Maldives? I confidently rapidly decide that the two don't create a good picture of belonging together. So I start thinking that if aircraft are going to be flying in and out of the Maldives for tourism, surely these fishermen would recognise the magnitude of the size of this B777 - especially given they had estimated it was approx 500ft above them. They described being able to see finer details of writing on the wings, which was no doubt on the flaps. They described the engines as screaming. So I think, with the air being thicker at lower altitudes the engines would be working harder and the flaps would be extended for lift. So then I start thinking - where the hell is this thing going!

Everything I've tracked to then has stacked up and fit together. I've gone to great pains to make sure that I haven't let my opinions or feelings factor into anything, and dealt solely with what I found and ascertaining where, or if, it fit into the equation according to the path the aircraft tracked, time differences, laws of nature, and laws of science. Extensive investigating lead me to uncover some evidence that confirmed fairly conclusively [without traveling to an Atoll in the middle of the Southern Indian Ocean], that MH370 did indeed track to Diego Garcia, an American occupied and tightly controlled military installation fairly directly south of the Maldives. But, can the aircraft get there at that low [estimated 500ft altitude - give or take a few feet!] Research shows that the area directly south of the Maldives is the Chagos Archipelago. It's also low lying, and then we reach Diego Garcia - 13ft above mean sea level with an 11,000ft long concrete runway - home to B52's and other large aircraft. Doing research into the place brings up some disturbing history. Viewing the Google Maps satellite images reveals what appears to be a row of B52's lined up on the tarmac. Closer observation of the water within the lagoon-type area reveals what appears to be underwater facilities or structures of some sort. When I ventured back to check the maps at a later stage the colors looked odd. They didn't seem uniform or match. Very much as you would expect to see if you took a blue square of paper and stuck it onto another blue piece of paper and then photocopied it. The end result would be where you would see that something had been overlapping the image - a manipulation of the original document. I came across a requisition order completed on the day MH370 'vanished' which stated a request for a ship for the transportation of people, machinery or both. The person who had presented it was ex-personnel on the Atoll. In the document was a blue link to click on for further information. I paused, pondered and assessed whether I would 'take a chance' and click it. I decided yes. A new tab opens on my screen, completely black except for a central space for user login and password. At the top of the screen is the U.S crest and the words "United States of America. Department of Defense." Naturally, I got the hell off there rapidly. That same morning the Ocean shield ship set sail from Australia - in the direction of Diego Garcia, which has been described as a CIA black ops set-up. I don't know about that so I couldn't firmly say yes, but it is interesting to look closely at the name - Diego GarCIA. Coincidence? I've gone to extreme measures to make sure I haven't seen what I've wanted to see and that everything logically fits together and makes sense. It's interesting to note that there's only 70 miles difference between the scheduled route from Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, and the route which it appears MH370 took to Diego Garcia. Something else which I found interesting - if not troubling - is that Diego Garcia is in the vicinity of where the Southern Indian Ocean search operations were being conducted and yet no assistance was offered to assist. Not even to offer refuelling services, meals, sleeping quarters for search crews. Why? The aircraft sent from Australia flew for approx 5 and a half hours with only enough fuel to circle for 2 hours before heading back to Australia.

So, this is just a wee bit of what I've been exposed to throughout my private investigation. Next I'll be talking about the frustrations of dealing with the so-called professionals in the MH370 case, and how they seem so disinterested in hearing anything outside their clicky world - or so it seems.