Heard the rumor a few days ago that it might have been “shadowing” Singapore Airlines Flight 68
This was the flight path
http://pt.flightaware.com/live/flight/SIA68/history/20140307/1640Z/WSSS/LEBL
Nice research. That flight route jibes with almost all known facts about the missing plane. It explains why India military missed the shadowing civilian aircraft with transponders shut off.
I don’t know if I’m reading it correctly (it’s in a different language), but I think it says that the Singapore 68 left KL at 12:59 am, heading NW. MAL370 left at 12:41am, iirc, it traveled NE for about 45 min - hour and turned west. Could MAL370 still catch up with Singapore 68 in order to shadow it?