Engine Data Reveals That Flight 370 Flew On For Hours After It "Disappeared"

Advocatus Diaboli writes "Aviation investigators and national security officials believe the plane flew for a total of five hours based on data automatically downloaded and sent to the ground from the Boeing Co. 777's engines as part of a routine maintenance and monitoring program. As part of its maintenance agreements, Malaysia Airlines transmits its engine data live to Rolls-Royce for analysis. The system compiles data from inside the 777's two Trent 800 engines and transmits snapshots of performance, as well as the altitude and speed of the jet. Those snippets are compiled and transmitted in 30-minute increments, said one person familiar with the system." Update: 03/14 11:41 GMT by S : The WSJ has since updated its report to say the data was from the plane's satellite-communication system. However, Malaysian authorities have denied both scenarios, saying neither Boeing nor Rolls-Royce received data past 1:07am (the flight initially disappeared off radar at 1:30am).

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Re:Turns out, no.

[AK Marc]

RR Malaysia denied it, making it debunked. The US has indicated they "believe" it flew for hours, but has not indicated how they knew it. My best guess is that the US has some illegal military operation that caught it, and so the US tried feeding "parallel construction" to point Malaysia in the right direction with lies. But Malaysia is seeing through the lies, and not taking the hint. And that's somehow Malaysia's fault. Now RR Europe may have "new" information, which has not been given to the Malaysian investigators, but it's more likely another US lie.

If it actually happened as TFA asserts, why would RR Europe not tell RR Malaysia the details, so that RR Malaysia, actively involved in the investigation, could be giving correct information to the investigators? What possible reason would RR Europe have to leak the information to the US, to then leak to the press, while never letting the investigators, or even their own employee, know what's happened?