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refer to an article titled '€œMH370 search moves into new phase'€ (The Jakarta Post online/ANN, April 14).

If the Inmarsat data and its interpretation are reliable, then they are looking in the right place. The terrain of the ocean floor in this region makes it possible that MH370 might rest there and never be found.

However, if the Inmarsat data is somehow less reliable, then all eyes should be on the Carlsberg ridge off the Maldives route as it is the only area to have thrown up a plausible acoustic event at the right time '€” see the work of Dr. Alec Duncan et al at Curtin University.

There are also multiple eyewitness accounts from a small island in the Maldives. If MH370 continued on its westward track, it could easily have ended in this area, either because of running out of fuel or being shot down after having been deemed an immediate or potential threat at Diego Garcia.

Inmarsat is a well reputed British Plc that wholly owns a subsidiary in the US known as Inmarsat Government. One of the immediate team members (a key satellite controller with the surname Fairbairn) responsible for the findings died tragically and unexpectedly of a heart attack on March 18, 2014. He was only in his very early middle age by all accounts.

The other slightly odd thing is that Diego Garcia canceled all flights for a period of 72 hours from March 8, 2014.

Nimeni
Jakarta