Originally Posted by
MANman
see also:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...rash-live.html
09.30 Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, Malaysian civil aviation chief, said earlier that the widened search includes northern parts of the Malacca Strait, on the opposite side of the Malay Peninsula and far west of the plane's last known location. Mr Azharuddin would not explain why crews were searching there, saying rather cryptically, "There are some things that I can tell you and some things that I can't."
I don't have the transcript from the Press Conference, but it would appear he made the comments in response to a question "why search around Malacca?"
They decided to search there and he is not saying why.
If they really did know the last sighting was in Malacca, even while they have been searching off Vietnam and this was kept quiet for some military or incompetence reason, then people, especially the Chinese, will be really quite angry.