As a fellow Malaysian, we should cut the government some slack. This was a thoroughly difficult case - even with international assistance, we still couldn't locate the airliner.
That said, our government is incompetent, that can't be denied.
I wouldn't equate this situation with incompetence. Lack of resources and training. Nor should we expect a country of that size of have the training and resources but that expectation is being placed on the Malaysian government. Its really tough spot for the Malaysian government, people want answers and finding an airplane is like finding a needle in haystack the size of rhode island. In comparison, Air France wreckage took 2 years to find.
It doesn't help there's all these theories about hijacking or the pilot going rogue. People/Media ignore the most probable theory that the plane had mechanical issues and crashed. I had calm my mother's fears on the phone couple days ago as she heard from a media source that plane was going to be used to deliver a nuclear weapon to the US mainland which is a completely absurd theory. Real incompetence is how the media spun this event out of control in the name of ratings and ad revenue.
