Missing MH370: Military Radars Didn't Pick Up Plane, Maldivian National Defence Force Says

Malaysia Star ^ | Wednesday March 19, 2014 | Patrick Lee

[nickcarraway]

Missing MAS flight MH370, which was reportedly sighted over Maldivian atoll Kudahuvadhoo, did not appear on the nation’s military radar.

“Further to the surveillances conducted thus far, none of the military radars in the country have detected a trace of the missing plane,” a Maldivian National Defense Force (MNDF) spokesperson said in a statement on its Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.

It added that airport radars in the Maldives also had not picked up any sign of the missing plane, which was supposedly seen by Maldivians above Kudahuvadhoo at 6.15am on March 8.

Residents on Kudahuvadhoo had told a local news portal there that they saw a “low flying jumbo jet” with supposed Malaysian Airlines colours on the morning of March 8.

Eyewitnesses also claimed that the aircraft sighted was travelling towards the southern tip of the Maldives.

According to Wikipedia, the island of Kudahuvadhoo is about 1.15km in length, and is nearly 180km from the Maldivian capital of Male.

Surveillance efforts, according to the MNDF, were being conducted with “a heightened level of vigilance” and that it was helping the Maldivian Police Service and international agencies with regard to the missing plane.

[nickcarraway]

[RC one]

It kind of feels like a Lusitania in the making kind of thing.

[Foxnard]

My theory also relates to the following article:
http://www.ibtimes.com/malaysia-airlines-flight-spotted-maldives-examining-latest-theory-mh370-1562221
1. Catastrophic event (shortly after 1:19) results: Pilot programs route to nearest airport (WSW direction, lowered altitude); either failure of communications systems or pilots cannot communicate due to environmental or equipment degradation; transponder and ACARS (reports every 30 minutes) fail.
2. Pilots lose consciousness, nearest airport is passed, autopilot maintains direction and low altitude / low speed.
3. 6:15 AM Maldive-time (9:15 AM Malaysian time) MH370 passes low and slow over Kuda Huvadhoo in the Maldives. It has been flying about 8 hours. My opinion is that the articles only quote one person, and I would question that account’s accuracy for the plane’s flight direction. He said North to South-East direction, but I would hold to a West-Southwest direction – the same as it flew from Malaysia. The unexpectedly ‘late’ time of passing this position, I would say is due to its low altitude and slow speed over the entire distance after passing the pilot’s desired airport. The Maldives discount the report, but other than not seeing it on radar (it was too low), I didn’t see a reason. Multiple people were said to have seen the airplane.
4. I would suggest a search of the ocean in that same WSW direction from Kuda Havadhoo.
5. I believe that after this long of a search, that their current theories are institutionalized, and my simple logical theory doesn’t fit their current assumptions and working rules.