In its head long rush to get into the spotlight and grab credit before anyone else, Inmarsat may have made a fatal error.
It should have stopped at reporting the 6½ pings.
Instead Inmarsat tried to be too clever, with a technique that Najib described as never been done before.
If it was right, and the plane was quickly found within 1 day of the calculation announcement, then it wins world wide praise and lots of business.
Now, if a later accidental discovery, long after all searches have been abandoned, showed that the plane was some where else many thousands of miles away in a completely different compass direction, then ---- trouble.
Now it dares not reveal the radar data to other world renowned international scientists & experts who may immediately detect calculation / assumption errors.
Don't you suspect Immasat & AAIB are under possible instructions from PM Najib not to reveal anything other than what he announced to the world?