Certainly from Malaysia - they have consistently shot themselves in the foot.
How the Devil do you confuse "Goodnight, Malaysia three-seven-zero" for "Alright Goodnight" and then keep repeating the later for three weeks!
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 hijacked, official says
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How the Devil do you confuse "Goodnight, Malaysia three-seven-zero" for "Alright Goodnight" and then keep repeating the later for three weeks!
I've always been taught that aviation satellite reports can carry up to a 5 hour lag. So, I'm not sure how reliable it is. I assume that data is time-stamped though. I mean, how else could they calculate a position if it wasn't? But since they aren't releasing any details, it's pretty hard to know how concrete anything is.
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Latest Update: 2 New Pings detected!!
Looks like they have found the final resting place of MH370, in the northern part the southern Indian Ocean. Still wondering why there was no debris field, and if it went down and did not explode how could that possibly be? Is it possible not to crash into the ocean, and have the plane stay in tact while it sinks?
Looks like they have found the final resting place of MH370, in the northern part the southern Indian Ocean. Still wondering why there was no debris field, and if it went down and did not explode how could that possibly be? Is it possible not to crash into the ocean, and have the plane stay in tact while it sinks?
Low altitude and an attempt for a water landing that failed ? No one got out but the plane is still largely intact ? A lot of questions could be answered if they finally find it.
A largely-intact plane is one of the two most likely reasons for no debris. A nose-dive is another possibility. Alien abduction still isn't off the table.
Or abduction, do what they need to do, then teleport the whole thing to the bottom of the ocean. It's really the simplest explanation.
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[So my post #26, above, finally persuaded you? :Eek:]
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If the plane glided intact they would have attempted an evacuation.
I'm going with alien abduction.
I'm going with alien abduction.
Not necessarily. I can't remember the details off the top of my head, but there was a flight that landed somewhere with a fire, and everyone burned to death with the aircraft because no one evacuated. It's strange, but this kind of thing does happen. I don't know what the sea state was at the time either though. I do know that the Indian Ocean can be pretty inhospitable at times, so is it possible the state was so bad that an evacuation wouldn't leave any trace? Maybe in a few months bodies will wash up on the shores of Brazil.
I would imagine that the waves in the southern Indian ocean always are so great that a soft landing will be impossible.
It is virtually impossible to land a jetliner in the ocean. Maybe if you're right near the beach but out on the open seas... good luck.
The next step with the pingers is pretty cool. They are going to drop 84 sonobuoys in a giant field with microphones at 1000m and let them drift over the area and use signal differentiation to try and get a fix on the location. Still, with thermal layers and depth of 4500 I doubt they will be able to get a lot more precise. I wonder how they found it. I suspect it was with seismic microphones which is how the found the USS Scorpion
That's what I was thinking, in the true sense of looking for a needle in a haystack.
At this point, it's a wing and a prayer. Batteries are probably dead by now. They'd be better off doing sonar traces of the ocean bed looking for the fuselage.
They will try this first because it will take 6 weeks to 2 months to map the current area based on the pings they have . As the pings fade, locating them will be even more defintive for finding the wreck
Especially in those rough waters but if really lucky and calm, a distinct possibility but it wouldn't float for long that's for sure.
