‘My parting shot is America has the best weapons and satellites!

Russia certainly the best spies – sorry MI6!
China the world’s best hackers!

And the irony is we are told that none of them can find MH370 (9M-MRO)!’

MH370 (9M-MRO) CIRCUS JESTERS CLUELESS AFTER 4 YEARS SAYS MALAYSIA ASEAN APEC LEAD CONSUMERIST PROF DR JACOB GEORGE!

In 2014, during the massive disinformation sessions where juveniles performed crisis management and corporate communication exercises to an audience of hard core battle hardened journalists who have personally witnessed all kind of global crisis, I asked the following questions in a London room where several of my foreign media friends, journalists and established professionals from various fields were gathered with me for afternoon tea and to address what in the world was happening to the simple cry for truth to be spoken with clarity and precision?

Among the questions were: Why did Malaysia take a week to call off the search in the South China Sea if it already knew that MH370 (9M-MRO) had flown across the Peninsula to West Malaysia?

At that moment, we were all aware that families in over 14 countries were traumatized by the mysterious disappearance of MH370 while on an overnight flight to Bejing and the narrative that was taking place at a certain hotel in Sepang, Malaysia.

At that stage in the UK, I remember my daughter crying, upset and telling me not to return on any Malaysian Airlines flights, to withdraw from that ‘Customer Service Survey’ I was conduction on board a A380 from Kuala Lumpur to London flight (Return) and to stay on longer there and continue engaging on this matter therein with my associates from over 14 countries thus giving birth to the team called IIT370 (International Intelligence Taskforce 370)!

Fast forward 2018 – This mystery has not been solved in spite of the involvement of 26 countries deploying dozens of ships and planes to scour thousands of nautical miles of land and sea on two major searches!

Today more than 4 years later, we do not know where 9M-MRO is, we are still clueless how to call and run press conferences, manage protocols which are super sensitive to inform and engage the next of kin (NOK), to organize one stop updates which encompasses all the ingredients and DNA of this episode so that the stakeholders of the political decision, the search administrators and the investigative team are all present in a single seating to meet and update not just families still torn asunder with tsunami of emotions but a wide audience of journalists!

It is foolish when one hears the MC of the Press conference thinking he is being truly professional, street smart and clever by repeating that more time is given to all to ask questions to show accountability, transparency and good governance when the pertinent questions asked are not answered because those with the locus or that scope are not present at that Press Conference organized!

So much for professionalism and insights if any, gathered post that storm at a Sepang hotel in 2014?

Those there can only answer areas within their scope and even that, the point being it is a narrative open ended where we all acknowledge there is a tragedy but we cannot finger what, who, where, how except provide conjectures, leave things as open, wide, avoiding responsibility (?) and as confused as it always has been since post March 8th 2014!
How can you provide any report when the most important piece of the narrative is not there!

An aircraft and its passengers or what is left of them?

This is elementary!

To date – the fact remains after all the financial costs and the sophisticated technology deployed, claims, counter claims, assurances from a wide body of academicians, politicians, third parties and busy bodies, the search has not yielded any results!

To compound this mystery, there is the tragedy of 239 lives whose fate is still unknown.

Are they alive?

Are they being held captive?

If dead where are their bodies?

If in the ocean deep will it not be surrendered?

Many on that flight were either known to me or my friends too!

Family, friends, next of kin of both the passengers and crew are in agony and pain and very angry as can be seen as I witnessed their comments given to a live audience of international journalists last Monday in Putrajaya!

Inexplicably, after 4 years there are still grouses and complaints of not being given adequate information for whatever reason.

And all of them are still suffering over the mysterious disappearance of that aircraft that never came home and their loved ones in it.

To those of us at the IIT370 there are many questions to this mystery but the truth is elusive.

What really happened?

Will we ever know the truth?

We know that both the US and other nations operate spy satellites in the area!

My team and I at IIT370 felt that latest report made available raises more questions than answers!

I cannot but wonder what ever became of that 4566kg of mangosteen fruit and 221kg of lithium-ion batteries?

Did the ocean deep hide them too?

My team and I always felt that in any situation of public and global interest deliberations, we should demand accurate, up-to-date information!

We should demand immediate and strategic action from our government and others working with us!

We should demand accountability and transparency!

We should demand responsiveness and responsibility.

They, being the administrators who have taken upon themselves to address this phenomenon of a vanishing aircraft at this age and time, with the kind of technology we have, must be more forward, than they have been!

My parting shot is: America has the best weapons and satellites!

Russia certainly the best spies – sorry MI6!

China has in my mind, the world’s best hackers!

And the irony is, we are told that none of them can find MH370 (9M-MRO)!

So where indeed is MH370 (9M-MRO)?

Perhaps, what is left of her is closer to us in Malaysia than we think?

MALAYSIA ASEAN APEC LEAD CONSUMERIST PROF DR JACOB GEORGE SAYS – THANK YOU TO THE MH370 INVESTIGATIVE TEAM FOR A JOB WELL INITIATED DESPITE HORRENDOUS CHALLENGES!

There are far too many noises and entrenched positions taken that will make the distraction and highlights no matter who takes the helm of investigating the disappearance of MH370 (9M-MRO)!

After over four years there is still far too much anger, emotional fallout and roller coaster anxiety swings!

Some want their pound of flesh in the form of assignment of blame, a rapid fire between government agencies but is this acceptable?

This is why universally investigators and those who spearhead leads to be objective and visionary cannot come from those who have virtually personal interest or personal loss in a tragedy!

The objectivity goes off the window!

The media – what about them?

They want to sensationalize news!

They want a smoking gun as it adds to their branding and career lift!

But they are also Super Street smart as they have not taken their respective governments to task either!

Starting with the Americans and the Australians!

Why such kid gloves treatment to both the US and Australia and to the manufacturer and the engine producer?

The perfect line I heard and I do not blame for once this team who had manned this narrative when they say – ‘Dato we cannot determine with any certainty” why Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014.

Far too many imponderable and added with the conspiracy theories floating about, some play up replayed by certain NOKs, NGOs types, writers on social media masquerading as journalist uploading, updating whatever is in the media/social media traffic thinking they are doing the course a great service in information dispensation?

This also includes the super busy bodies!

So echoing what the lead investigator Dr Kok Soo Chon shared with me and he was super honest about his when he stated that the investigative team is unable to determine the real reason for the disappearance when he released that massive 495-page report today 30th July in Putrajaya!

A great deal of work went in and among them that 9M-MRO (MH370) turned back, and that had to be done under manual control.

Of course as I concluded with my friends at the IIT370 there were super misgivings, incompetence, and vicarious liability and basically failures by those on the ground, in positions of command and control, after the plane diverted from its planned flight path, with Ho Chi Minh failing to notify Chinese authorities when the plane failed to make contact with them, and then air traffic controllers failed to initiate emergency procedures, thereby delaying any search and rescue.
Interestingly where were our super professional Malaysians while all these were happening?

Sleeping on the job?

Even post tragedy early days we were having a super circus both at the press conferences and at Sama Sama Hotel at Sepang, with ‘juveniles’ handing corporate communications and crisis management!

And what happened to the key intervention by the Singaporeans without which everyone still be celebrating or in comatose?

No mention about the super efficiency of the Singaporeans why – ashamed that they showed us to be absolutely incompetent?

Today at the media briefing my learned friend also dismissed all those super conspiracy theories about the plane and its pilots, and ruled out plane malfunction as a contributing factor.

But inexplicably the possibility that a third party was involved in the demise of the plane was left in the air?

As for me the team lead answered with dedication, accountability with what his team and he had!

And throughout the session he took pains to revisit, reassure that this was not the final report neither that he was not willing with his team to meet stakeholders!

But he was very professional enough to put caveats where it was needed and basically run the field on their term of office.
No one is happy where we are at today!

No one in that hall I can say had a monopoly of righteousness either.

It is easy to accord the blame game!

This has been rather long for my team and I too as I remember only too well in London then informed that this Boeing 777 left Kuala Lumpur at 12:41am local time, bound for Beijing, with 12 crew and 227 passengers on board and never came home!

We have had the most expensive search of aviation history not once, but, twice!

As for the report before some gun trotting media cowboy continues to target us Malaysians remember a fact!

This report was prepared in consultation with seven other countries, including Australia, USA, China, Indonesia and the UK, who endorse its findings.

So before the western dominated media spanners continue accusing Malaysians of a cover up remember – this report was in collaboration with your country as well!

And to those morons who went on a talk show months ago claiming this was cold blooded murder cum suicide bear in mind the findings of the investigative team that there was no evidence to blame either dear friend Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah or First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27!

Putting it legally the investigation found no anomalies or abnormal circumstances around the lives of the two men in charge.

The last positively fix was made by surveillance systems at the northern tip of Sumatra, which now raises key questions about the statement made both in affidavit and to media with our team at IIT370 by witnesses seeing with their naked eye seeing the aircraft hit the water in Northern Sumatra!

And desirous to meet both Premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed and newly minted Transport Minister to share their experience and provide the GPS, ordinance and footage of the event!

As I told the investigative team today – it is a great opportunity to debunk the claims after all the area is close, shallow compared to the SIO and we have independent witnesses!

What do we have to lose?

I rest my case – period!