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Can the Motorola and mangosteen cargo be rebuilt at carton level?

Working-log Q28–Q35: airway bill 232-10677085, Motorola SKUs, whether radios/transmitters were present, CG effects, and why the Motorola consignment was not X-rayed.

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Can WSPR actually track MH370?

Godfrey’s circle near 29.1°S 99.9°E has not been AUV-searched. The method is unpublished in accredited journals and the database is closed. Correlation with simulator coordinates is not identification.

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Could the Inmarsat BFO have been spoofed?

Wise’s northern path stands or falls on this. Inmarsat and ATSB treat BFO as a physical Doppler residual. No public demonstration has shown a 2014-era 777 SDU emitting a false BFO while keeping a consistent BTO.

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Did 9M-MRO have any path for external flight-control commands?

Patents prove the concept. The test is hardware/software, SATCOM/data-link, power architecture, and maintenance/modification records on this tail.

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Is the public ACARS log missing a block of messages?

Jericho 2019 attributes a ~26-minute exclusion in the released ACARS traffic log and an ACARS-unavailable window of roughly 22–78 minutes. Needs a line-by-line check against the MOT 2015 Factual Information ACARS appendix.

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What can be documented at Diego Garcia on 7–8 March 2014?

Working-report Q22: sensor, SIGINT, satellite downlink and aircraft activity. Currently a question, not a finding.

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What is the bridge from the ISR environment to MH370?

Working-report core problem. Need one specific platform, sensor, command link, contract, deployment or test event in both the programme chain and the MH370 window.

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What sensors were actually on Orion by March 2014?

PB2015 says Aurora and BIG SAFARI were identifying best-of-breed GFE through FY2014. First flight had no mission system. Gorgon Stare / MTS-B / VADER remain leads, not fits.

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What were the 20 Freescale passengers working on?

Presence on the flight is confirmed. Defence/avionics/inertial/radar assignment is unresolved. FXAS21000 gyro timing is an adjacent product fact, not a link.

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What were the two MAGIC JUON numbers and the FY2012/13 add sponsors?

USAF says two Joint Urgent Operational Needs for long dwell / persistent ISR. Exact numbers, submitting commands, and the $19m / $50m Congressional language are unresolved.

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Where did Blue Devil residual components go?

DODIG-2013-128: parts were absorbed into other Air Force programmes. Greenville storage is documented. Later inventory is not.

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Where is the main wreckage?

Not in the 120,000 km² ATSB box, not in the 2018 Ocean Infinity corridor, not in the 7,571 km² surveyed in 2025–26. Remaining 7,428 km² under contract to June 2027.

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Who was flying after IGARI?

Official report: cannot establish if anyone other than the two pilots was at the controls. Manual inputs likely; actor unknown.

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Why did SAR start in the wrong ocean for days?

Military primary radar and live SATCOM existed while the public search flew the South China Sea. GADSS is the policy answer; the night-of organisational failure is still a research subject.