Who got Inmarsat's #MH370 data BEFORE Malaysia? => SITA

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MAP: SITA radar coverage: http://bbr.asia/sita.jpg


Nihonmama
Posted December 14, 2014 at 10:41 PM
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Victor:

“Without a doubt the French investigators were frustrated by the lack of access to the raw data that was given to them, so much that they packed their bags and went home.”

Here’s the important point: BEA were asked by Malaysia for assistance. If Malaysia’s sole aim was (is) to obstruct, why ask for help? And why, wouldn’t UK’s AAIB comply with BEA request on Malaysia’s behalf?

“This was widely reported.”

If so, there appear to be many following MH370 who missed that. And was Duncan’s tip widely reported?

“The data flow I believe would be: Inmarsat -> ISAT-> AAIB -> Malaysia.”

Interesting. What Stephane Berthomet said suggests a different data flow:
Inmarsat-> SITA-> MAS

September 16, 2014 at 11:20 PM

I wrote:

“As Berthomet relates, armed with that tip and Inmarsat’s statement that it gave its MH370 data to SITA (which in turn, gave it to Malaysia Airlines), he approached SITA directly. SITA did not confirm Berthomet’s tip — but it didn’t deny or contradict his information either.”

“Inmarsat said that all the data reached Malaysia and Malaysia redacted the logs.”

The problem with “Inmarsat said” is that what Inmarsat says is not incontrovertible proof, but hearsay. Inmarsat is not the Alpha and Omega of what is true, although many appear to think that’s the case. Most certainly not with respect to the data logs. As posted previously here, this Q&A between Inmarsat’s Martin Dickinson and Paul Sladen on the issue of the redacted logs (@7:42) tells a story, one that (should) cause people to ask more questions about Inmarsat and the data, not less: http://t.co/MoExIxkz4Y

“It might be true that Inmarsat’s path prediction algorithms never reached Malaysia”

And how could that be (and why would that have been) given that Malaysia, owner of MAS, would be the #1 party in interest?

“but I would be surprised if the all the data owned by MAS is not in the hands of the Malaysian investigative team.”

That may be true. But what’s of equal interest (at least to me) is what else was happening to the data while it was making it’s way to Malaysia.

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