Part ro all of this could also have been as a political protest against the leader of the opposition, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's conviction.
As posters on this thread have alerady said, it's an important aspect of their culture to appear in control and all knowing so this would have been a way...
Wasn't there a report that the plane climbed to 45,000ft, far higher than their normal operating altitude and then made a rapid descent? or was this found to be untrue? (was it the Malaysian authorities saying this earlier in the week?)
If it did climb that high, its unlikely to have shadowed...
But if they were continuing to cover Syria and Ukraine as you suggest, wouldn't they have to "spend time saying the same thing, using different sentences and 'experts' just to fill the airtime..." because nothing major has changed? and that coverage would be over a longer time frame than the...
So let me get this right, you want the news broadcastings to stop reporting on this missing plane after 5 days because they are just going over the same bits of information but getting the views on it from several different sources, but you would like them to carry on reporting on things like...
There was a very good documentary on the Air France crash on channel 4 called 'Fatal flight 447: Choas in the cockpit'
The cause of the crash was that the speed sensors froze up and the auto pilot could not longer tell how fast the plane was going and handed control back to the pilots.
The...