Without Providing Solutions, The Malaysian Insider @tm_insider Now Attacks Subang ATC

Without providing solutions or suggestions on how to find #MH370, Pro-Opposition news portal The Malaysian Insider has resorted to attacking the Subang ATC for what it perceive as "incompetence" of the personnel on duty at the fateful night #MH370 gone missing. The sorry part is The Malaysian Insider has made no attempt to engage with Subang ATC to hear their story but instead attack them and question their credibility. I find this very disturbing where now we see pro-opposition portals starting to attack the relevant agencies under the MOT. The Malaysian Insider should be providing solutions and suggestions rather than blaming people. 

What did the Subang air traffic control do when it found out that flight MH370 did not check in with Vietnamese air traffic controllers in the early morning of March 8?

Apart from getting a pilot to contact the missing aircraft, nothing much is known about what else the air traffic control (ATC) did that a deputy minister presumed that military radar operators ignored the plane because a turn back was ordered.

Deputy Defence Minister Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakri has now said his presumption was "not accurate" but questions remain whether the ATC did anything about the lost aircraft.

"It is not clear what the ATC did. We know MAS knew the plane was missing but did the military know?

"In fact, did other ATCs in the region know that MH370 was missing? They could have tracked it if they received early information," an aviation industry official told The Malaysian Insider.

It is understood that Malaysian investigators have found it difficult to get radar data from neighbouring countries as regional military officials are reluctant to reveal their capabilities.

"It can't be that all of the radar operators were sleeping on the job at that time," the aviation industry official said.

Australian news site news.com.au quoted a Straits Times report this week that Malaysian authorities had infuriated passengers’ loved ones by telling them at a briefing this week that there was “sealed evidence that cannot be made public” in relation to the missing flight.

“The sealed evidence included air traffic control radio transcript, radar data and airport security recordings,” the paper reported.

The remarks by Malaysian authorities – made at the Metropark Lido Hotel in Beijing – have not been reported by other major newspapers, despite being widely shared on social media, news.com.au said.