Malaysia Flight MH370 Latest News: Conspiracy Theory Surfaces Again

With no physical trace yet of Malaysia Flight MH370, conspiracy theories continue to multiply.

The latest conspiracy theory revolves around Malaysian authorities who deliberately chose to ignore data from British-owned satellite Inmarsat which indicated that the plane was last recorded over the Indian Ocean and west of Perth, Australia, before it disappeared.

There has been no shortage of conspiracy theories since the plane disappeared. There have also been a number of false reports on the plane wreckage allegedly having been found.

The latest theory is based on the pings that Inmarsat recorded over the Indian Ocean, which Malaysian authorities apparently chose to ignore during the first five days of the search.

When news first broke out in the West Australia newspaper that Malaysian officials did not consider the data from Inmarsat within the first 24 hours of the MH370 disappearance, conspiracy theorists quickly took note of it and began to spin the story that the Malaysian government just did not want to know what happened to the plane.

According to the report by the West Australian, the Malaysian government was eventually forced to acknowledge the data from Inmarsat when the latter approached the Air Accidents Investigation Branch in Britain with the data. It was only then when its importance was recognized.

The prolonged delay in the use of Inmarsat tracking data meant that for days the Malaysian authorities searched the South China Sea for the plane and ignored the section of the Indian Ocean where it was last recorded.

The initial search in the Indian Ocean only started 10 days after the plane disappeared. Many oceanographers said 10 days would be enough for the debris to scatter in the ocean.

Reporting on the current search, Bloomberg said the plane could be somewhere near the seventh and final arc on the route that it disappeared. This is the area that is being scanned by the ship Fugro Equator which has so far covered 200,000 square kilometers of the search grid.