[ianburrell]

Not tens of thousand of kilometers. Diego Garcia to tip of Indonesia is 2800km and 3000km to Australia. But the rest of your post holds.

Also, the over the horizon radars are in Australia. I think they could have picked up the flight but were offline that day.

[_djo_]

Appreciate the correction, I meant thousands.

Yes, that’s the JORN system. The western sector might’ve picked it up if it went near western Australia as presumed, but it wasn’t operating.