New ATSB Report Appears

Duncan Steel : 2014 October 08

Well, it’s a new (update) report from the ATSB, but it doesn’t contain much actually new, because the Independent Group (IG) had already reached essentially the same conclusions and published them here a couple of weeks ago. One wonders whether the two might be related? Rather earlier, the IG had posted similar recommendations (and pleas for the release of information unconscionably kept secret) in preceding posts earlier in September, and indeed in posts in June, July and August.

Below we (the IG) show how our recommended end point relates to the location that the ATSB has belatedly arrived at, after wasting millions of dollars surveying a wide area much further NE.

Note also that the ATSB (and their cronies) have at last realised and accepted that the IG was correct that the final BFO values can be interpreted in terms of a plunge into the sea from high altitude: we have previously given the speed with which the aircraft hit the sea (near 300 kph). As of yet the ATSB is still not interpreting the final BFOs correctly, in our opinion.