MH 370 Diary: Three Weeks Gone Today

29 March 2014

We have become very good fishermen!  The 20 or so natives who are with us here are good with nets and they have been bringing us food and clothing regularly.  We built a palm frond fish roaster and so we've had enough to eat.  I hope the people on the other island are doing as well.  We cannot understand them though and Tagluk, who seems to be their boss, gets angry and shakes his gun whenever we ask about when the rescue boat will come.

This island - I think it is near Batti Island in the South Andamans - is a new one they took us to and there are some old American Quonset huts here, probably from WWII.  Tagluk knows a little English and keeps saying "One week go home" but he has been saying that for what seems like a month.  

My friend, who knows a little about commercial aviation, says the small flash we saw about 2 hours before landing was probably a small decoy plane with one of our transponders or ACRS.  His rationale is that if the pilot was going to confiscate all our electronics and then turn off all of our flight's communication devices, why would he risk being detectable by satellite?

I agree.  If this airplane has been sold for nearly a half-billion dollars (as he thinks) it would be nothing for them to introduce a decoy to fool the satellites.  Anyway, after the initial shock it was amazing to see the decoy (if that's what it was) slowly flying away from us and due south toward what must be Antarctica or southern Australia.

Well, that's all for today's news.

- From a note found in a plastic juice bottle on a beach in Sri Lanka , January 7th 2015