Sunday, September 4, 2016

Indonesian Radar Coverage (Lhokseumawe)

The graphic below shows the coverage (red circle) of the Thomson-CSF TRS-2215 radar located in Indonesia at Lhokseumawe.


It is hard to reconcile how the Indonesia radar did not see MH370 when the flight path was in view of this radar from Pulau Pinang all the way to beyond the final primary radar coverage at Butterworth RMAFB located near Pulau Pinang.  The overlap between the Indonesian radar and the Butterworth radar is significant, and the Malays claim the Butterworth radar tracked the plane for 200nm into the Malacca Strait. MH370 literally flew right past the Indonesian radar site.

The "presumed final major turn" location is not relevant to this discussion.