Originally Posted by
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So they knew almost real time that the plane had diverted having contacted Malaysian military radar?
MH370 never contacted the RMAF; RMAF radar picked them up on two radars, Kota Bharu and Butterworth, but the operator's either failed to notice or to report the target. The radar data were recorded, and sorting them later revealed the "boogie". No communication, merely an aircraft "painting" the screen. No way of even ascertaining 100% it was MH370.