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| The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld (left), Secretary of Defense, and Najib Tun Razak, Malaysia Minister of Defense, pose for a photo at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. on May 2, 2002. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
I cannot help but think that this change of heart came about due to the interview late last week, conducted by CNN's Richard Quest of Malaysia's prime minister, Najib Razak. Now Richard Quest is certainly not my favorite aviation authority. His accent, loud and blustering voice and his general demeanor (that of a pompous, arrogant horse's ass) make me want to rub my eyes with sandpaper but be that as it may, he did effectively goad Malaysia's prime minister into making this report public. He was however unable to gain an admission from the prime minister that flight MH 370 is lost when a month ago the prime minister in a badly botched move on the part of the Malaysian investigative team announced..."flight MH 370 ended in the south Indian Ocean".
The report went on to recommend that all aircraft flying over vast seas be tracked in real time. The technology exists.. The cost, about $100,000 per plane for retro-fitting is however prohibative according to airline accident investigators and aviation specialists. This is bullshit! Would you pay $10 more for your transcontinental airline ticket to have it tracked? Would a $10 increase in airfares ground flights? This is ridiculous!
The most disturbing piece regarding the release of this preliminary report is that Malaysia announced that as of next week the centres where families are staying for support, briefings on the progress of the investigation, etc. are being closed in an effort to get the families of the passengers to go home. This poses a problem for many who live in rural or remote parts of China and Malaysia where there is no television or wireless internet. Families feel that this move isolates them from others who share their fear and grief and is a deliberate attempt by Malaysia to spinter and fracture the cohesiveness and comfort of the family groups that have formed thus thwarting their efforts to remain informed and actively participate in the investigative process.
While I understand that this type of support cannot last indefinitely, this is an unprecedented occurrence. There has been not one shred of evidence found that MH 370 even crashed! And from the report it is clear that Malaysia waited some four hours before anyone clued in to the fact that the plane was lost! Couple that with lies and misinformation, ghastly and insulting public relations and a badly bungled investigative process during the first few weeks, I believe that Malaysia better rethink their strategy regarding the family members of those passengers on flight MH 370.
Finding the plane and caring for the families are all that count....the rest is bureaucratic bullshit and I for one am sick of it!
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