Why would it be a huge conspiracy though? Why must we always translate a CT into there being to many moving parts, and too many people have to be involved. According to those standards there could never ever be a CT, or a secret at the highest level, and well we know this to be untrue.
Too many people involved and too big risk for Inmarsat business. They are a serious western company and I believe them (note that I don't believe all western companies just the proven majority of them).
On April 9, after Aussie PM Abbott expressed supreme confidence in the position of MH370's FDR, I suspect you'd have felt that "any theory that disproves [the fuel analysis leading the search to 20s, or the acoustic pings keeping it there] delves into a huge conspiracy" - yet here we are, hundreds of miles from the then-official theory.
Trust me, Stevan: I am not "conspiracy-inclined" - I am "coincidence-averse". There is a big difference.
And the staggering coincidences seem to pile up higher and higher with each passing day. Something smells.
umm, can't see how it's connected with each other, Abbott is not the expert, Inmarsat technicians are
they just made the mistake in expressing supreme confidence regarding FDR and pings, that is all, Inmarsat doesn't have to express anything, they have a reliable data that is cross-checked, huge difference
Why does a CT have to involve a LARGE number of people? Why must we always make that correlation is all I'm saying?
in this (Inmarsat) case it would have as I suspect many ordinary employers have access to data, they aren't exactly intelligence service, just a satellite company
note that my speculation that puts the blame on malaysian government actually involves some sort of conspiracy as they fear (although they probably can't be certain) the pilots main goal was revealing their incompetence and brutality
that's not out of this world at all, you just have to live a bit longer in a 3rd world country to understand how low governments can go in hiding what they have(not) done
so to conclude, my view is that Inmarsat is to be believed but not malaysian government, because Inmarsat has revealed basically everything they had while Malaysians still keep secret things like fuel load, cargo list and many other things(except complete radar data that I understand why they don't publish) while I can't see how those could spoil the investigation, especially at this point
And honestly, how do they know this plane that popped up on radar after MH370 switched off it's communication is MH370. I never understood the part. When the plane turned its ACARS off, they noticed that another plane was flying in the opposite direction, at least this was the original news. How did they know for sure with a 100% certainty that this was flight 370. Also do radar recordings record altitude as well, or only direction and speed?
Because it was the only plane with transponder turned off, easy to assume it was MH370 (unless aliens sucked it into space and sent us its copy...).
(Edit: responding to Jason's post of 15 min ago ("what's your theory?"), which I don't see, here, now)
Either..
...the (presumably suicidal, per various speculative reports) pilot tried to ditch in the "roaring forties" - the least accessible spot possible (out of spite), and the rest of this fiasco is either GROTESQUE incompetence or a (sickening, in my opinion) attempt to save money (by searching closer to port, in calmer waters) during the "media frenzy" portion of the search), OR...
...the (presumably valuable, per various reports of mysterious cargo / expert passengers) plane's contents were abducted in order to extract their value - and the rest is a run-of-the-mill cover-up. #1033 describes one way this might have been achieved.
Every day the investigation team fails to admit to the former, I lean more toward the latter.
the Captain had the problems in his life but IMO not worth committing the suicide, especially bringing 200 souls with himself, also as he was actively campaigning against more radical Muslims that rule the country I would call it certain that he is the type of person that greatly despises 9/11 methods
also going to the least accesible spot possible is much easier to execute if you don't have to overfly Malaysia and fiddle with low-flying to evade radars, just take the flight to mideast and get south after you get to Andaman, nobody would notice anything, this way there was still a possibility that he gets military aircraft follow him (and alarm indonesian military to engage their planes, together with informing big countries to start satellite tracking)
speaking about valuable contents, noone would transport anything worth this type of hijacking without military escort, and that would be transported in military transport planes anyway
Intel - embedded in cargo or passengers - capable of imparting military dominance.
To name one.
huh, don't you think one of the big players(China? USA?) would chime in already on that? Their intelligence would sure know more details.
also don't you think they would apply satellite tracking of the plane if there was really something that important?
just doesn't make sense that China or USA get damage from all of this and still remain silent