Originally Posted by
userasc
I am confused with the decision of the new area of search. Could it be that instead of the speed change they found a sign of MH370 on some radar.. i.e Indonesian or Australian radar?
Seems unlikely - the projected track of the a/c remains well outside the detection range of any standard radar, and it's been said that the OTH-B system they have was directed elsewhere at the time.
That said, I'm just a tad skeptical that they'd completely abandon the southern search sector and send them north based on what seems to be very incomplete data - I suspect there may be some additional data point they're not talking about that convinced them to make this move. After all, there were a lot of satellite photos of various objects in the southern sector,