Tak rehearse kt 777 ke??

Like I have posted before, civilian radar signature reading (in this case 777) falls to DCA
UFO, like their name is "unidentified"!

Macam2 ada kat PULPAK tu bro
by request mesti ada dah 9M-MRx at their disposal!

Did they call the DCA to identify the aircraft?

Did they even challenge the plane? An aircraft without a transponder could be flying blind or having severe malfunctions. Was that even taken into account?

sorry bro, I can't answer that for you
but seriously the DCA/ATM SOP should be review and changed

I feel that they owe it to the families of the victims to answer this properly. If the plane was detected there and then, it could be a difference between life and death.

I agree with you, but I am under oath here

i'm not even mad, this is funny

No, it should be the DCA calls the RMAF to identify the plane or track it where it was last seen on ATC radar
But in this case the ATC assume first the plane had crashed, and then the SAR was activated without considering the probability of hijack or takeover

For the million dollar question, military radar don't monitor commercial aircraft, and the blip they see in the radar is no different from any other commercial flight flying on that time

That's DCA's job as they have both approved route and flight plan

Thats why, DCA and military must link their data (route, flight plan and transponder data) in the future and better co-operation also
But this also would take a huge undertaking as new infrastructure (both mobile and static radar) to be done, and a centralized air defence command (NORAD equivalent) would certainly be built

I mean, doesn't the military track unidentified aircraft? After 9/11, even commercial aircrafts can become a weapon of mass destruction. The military uses IFF right? If there is a plane that doesn't have a transponder, and doesn't display IFF, isn't that a cause of concern?

i don't care about MH370... i'm more concern if RMAF had tried to get visual confirmation when they saw a UFO on their radar...

by reading ur post, this is what i understand:

1. The military radar does not display flight numbers nor flight details like they do on an ATC screen.

2. The MH370 blip the military saw on their radar screen appeared like any other normal flights, so they wouldn't have known any abnormalies.

Correct?

So my next question is, how does military know if the blip they see on their screens is a threat?

All modern commercial aircraft is equipped with IFF (Mode III)
That's how our military radar sees it, but it doesnt tell you anything more than that (other than it's a commercial flight)

After 9/11 the most proactive approach they have done is to embed an air marshall on american flights,
Thats probably more effective than having more radar to watch the planes

they shud tell the same to the US airforce that failed in their duty to detect & reacted swiftly towards 2 commercial planes that hit WTC

Flying silent without any identification
Not transmitting IFF even when interrogated, or recognized as foe
Approaching a restricted no-fly-zone or breaching minimum safe altitude (MSA) area
Flight pattern and radar return close to known fighter aircraft

There's lots more, but that is under MKN to determine

I thought IFF is turned off when transponders are turned off right?

True, you can turn off the transponder from transmitting anything
but IFF system works by replying the radar return (interrogation)

Transponder data is transmitted
IFF data is not transmitted, instead it's interrogated by radar system

However, in this case transponder is inactive and IFF fails to respond right?

And i thought id never see posts like this anymore in kopitiam with everyone seeming to agree with everything the white people say..

Im particularly wondering why Are the western media so unusually interested

The military radar positively identified the commercial plane, so I guess the IFF still works

According to some posters, the military radar had ATR databases (probably a database of how a reflected radar signal can be translated to aircraft size/shape) that can positively identify the type of aircraft.