Long before it gets to east Africa it would pass almost directly over Diego Garcia. Clearly we would have known of its approach 1500 klics out. The Indians would have acquired it earlier. It seems certain someone’s radars picked up something on a westerly heading over the Straits at 9,000 meters. Which military’s radar made the contact? Was the sighting reported up the chain? If it was Malaysian with their Brit roots I’d expect details of the contact and reports. Indonesia and Thai,not so much.
First off, we are fed BS by M government and silence by US govt, sooo....nothing is fully believable at this point, however...
US was shown searching west of Malay Peninsula yesterday and did not dispute. Further, US govt said yest no explosion on sat and we looked, (thorough coverage).
Now Malay govt says plane descended, turned west, crossed over, and descended again. Malacca Strait a busy place.
All along, they said it went quiet on original course.
If this is believable and not more BS, it is clear that SOMEBODY turned off all comms, flew the wrong way for a long while, then descended again, and now, the plane isn’t in the water, so it either kept flying and landed somewhere, or it flew on and crashed further west yet.
Again, IF we aren’t hearing more BS, somebody took this plane and most likely still has it.