Did Malaysia Airlines MH370 shadow a Singapore Airlines Flight 68 SQ68-SIA68 flight en route to Europe (Barcelona, Spain) to avoid radar detection? that’s the latest rumor put out by someone named Keith Ledgerwood. This story about MH370 and Singapore Airlines SQ68-SIA68 is getting a lot of attention of social media. The New York Times is reportedly due to report a new, important story on MH370 later tonight, I don’t know if it includes the Keith Ledgerwood rumor/theory.
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| New rumor: MH370 shadowed Singapore Airlines SQ68 to avoid radar detection |
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How does this solve the mystery??? We know MH370 didn’t fly to Spain! Once MH370 had cleared the volatile airspaces and was safe from being detected by military radar sites in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan it would have been free to break off from the shadow of SIA68 and could have then flown a path to it’s final landing site. There are several locations along the flight path of SIA68 where it could have easily broken contact and flown and landed in Xingjian province, Kyrgyzstan, or Turkmenistan. Each of these final locations would match up almost perfectly with the 7.5 hours of total flight time and trailing SIA68. In addition, these locations are all possibilities that are on the “ARC” and fit with the data provided by Inmarsat from the SATCOM’s last known ping at 01:11UTC.
There are too many oddities in this whole story that don’t make sense if this theory isn’t the answer in my opinion. Why did MH370 fly a seemingly haphazard route and suddenly start heading northwest towards the Andaman Islands on P628? If not for this reason, it seems like a rather odd maneuver. The timing and evasive actions seem deliberate. Someone went through great lengths to attempt to become stealthy and disable ACARS, transponder/ADS-B (even though SATCOM to Inmarsat was left powered).
After looking at all the details, it is my opinion that MH370 snuck out of the Bay of Bengal using SIA68 as the perfect cover. It entered radar coverage already in the radar shadow of the other 777, stayed there throughout coverage, and then exited SIA68’s shadow and then most likely landed in one of several land locations north of India and Afghanistan.
Singapore Airlines Flight 68 final destination was Spain, and took a similar route that ML370 allegedly took.