Possibly they could have been monitoring both, as well as other aspects of the situation. I don't think it would be a coincidence that a spoof hijack would look a lot like a Zaharie hijack -- the point I was trying to make in the "Magic" and "Ripley" episodes is that a good deceiver has an idea of the "A" narrative that his pursuers will probably come to believe.
Possibly they could have been monitoring both, as well as other aspects of the situation. I don't think it would be a coincidence that a spoof hijack would look a lot like a Zaharie hijack -- the point I was trying to make in the "Magic" and "Ripley" episodes is that a good deceiver has an idea of the "A" narrative that his pursuers will probably come to believe.
Possibly they could have been monitoring both, as well as other aspects of the situation. I don't think it would be a coincidence that a spoof hijack would look a lot like a Zaharie hijack -- the point I was trying to make in the "Magic" and "Ripley" episodes is that a good deceiver has an idea of the "A" narrative that his pursuers will probably come to believe.