MH370: Adakah Kerahsiaan Tentera Membantutkan Uasaha Menyelamat?

Malaysia Airlines MH370: is military secrecy hampering the search?

Former air crash investigator David Gleave says efforts to trace the missing Malaysian Airlines flight may be being hampered by regional powers' reluctance to share information about the reach of their military radar systems Naval and land-based military radars of nations close to where Malaysia Airlines MH370 disappeared are likely to have tracked the aircraft, says David Gleave, a former air crash investigator.

But sensitivites over revealing the extent of their tracking capabilities may mean governments are unwilling to reveal how much they know. "The first thing we don't know in the public domain is what the military ground radar were seeing," says Mr Gleave, who now works as an aviation expert at Loughborough University.

"We have an area of relatively high tension politically, so we have Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Burma, Singapore - could all have their radars working but we don't know what they've seen, and one reason for not saying what they've seen is that it would be to declare their military capability to the other people around them.

"However this aircraft should have appeared on several military radars for a considerable period of time." He adds that the activities of naval ships in the area, which would also have the capability to track aircraft flying in their vicinity, are also unknown.

The last time the Boeing 777 made contact with air traffic controllers was around 1.30am Malaysian time on Saturday.

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