The main thing that has always bugged me about the pilot was the video of him when he was being searched before boarding, and he looked directly up at the cameras. Nothing concrete but it sure looked a little suspicious to me.
I wonder if he did that every time?
I wonder how many people look up?
There is an important reason for a may-day call even if the plane was going down. And that is to inform someone that the plane is crashing and where it is crashing so that they know where to look for survivors.
I agree flying or trying to fly a wounded plane is first priority, but a may-day call is also vitally important. It was reported that Cell Phones were turned on and/or off from that plane according to some reports so even if communication was out, the cell phones were an option if plane could fly low enough to a tower which it obviously did at one point according to 1 news report.
Also, that lady in the boat that also supposedly spotted smoke trailing a plane while she was sailing admitted to get funds for directing more "hits" on the website in which she released that information. According to what I read there. I dont consider her credible based on that.
All JMO of course.
I have read most of the thread; Kate did not say that. Took me a little bit until I got the key words right but I found the quote.
Post #270 was quote by member
SaltyMonkey in post #271 who is the one that said Kate only answering on the forum will lead people to believe she wanted people to go there for that. The fact is that she was
only answering questions there because it was public; her words could not get misconstrued. She has been taking a beating from people there.
I agree, and all this talk of only answering questions on CF will grow suspicion you are only doing this to increase "click's" on the site.
edit - the Phuket Gazette did an article
New crowd-sourced data shows Phuket yacht sighting, MH370 flight path correlate - Volunteer members of the public, one of them a flight test engineer who used flight-simulator software, compared the logged course of Ms Tees yacht SY Aaza Dana as it passed south of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and cross-correlated it with data from the International Maritime Organization navigation and communications satellite network, Inmarsat. -
Ms Tee provided the Gazette a copy of her report of the latest findings to the JACC (to read her report in full, click here), in which she detailed the sighting of a buoy and the glow of a bright orange light from beyond the horizon, which she saw after March 7.
If the [projected] flight plan is correct, and I genuinely believe it is, since it illustrates exactly what I saw, and where and how the trajectory changed, then this flight headed off back over our track, Ms Tee told the Gazette.
That meant the plane headed towards military exercises where we had seen what we now believe to be a military convoy, and an isolated marine buoy that was either a submarine buoy or an acoustic target buoy (used for missile practice).
Now, I know that big military convoys have excellent radar tracking systems and etc, and yet they didnt see this and report it? I dont believe that, and dont understand why not.
Image below shows their track in blue