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Authorities Call Off Aerial Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 - Hunt for Missing Plane to Continue Underwater
Officials announced a major change in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Monday that will include a halt in the aerial searches that has gone on since early March. Australian Prime Minister announced the plans in a news conference. “"I regret to say that thus far none of our efforts in the air, on the surface or under sea, have found any wreckage,” he said. The next phase of the search will be a more intensive underwater search and will involve the use of private contractors, he… (www.frequentbusinesstraveler.com) Más...Which is the right place?
The time has come to revisit the underlying assumption that MH370 took the southern track into the southern Indian Ocean despite the fact that the last radar sightings had it travelling north towards the Indian / Bangladesh coast.
The northern tracks were eliminated as all the countries in that direction said that it had not shown on their radar defences. The possibility that one or more of them may not have told the truth (or had missed detecting the flight ) should be considered. If a country had detected it as an intruder and shot it down, maybe they would want to keep that quiet once they realised it was a commercial airliner, not a military aircraft.
There are number of hypothetical scenarios that could be considered, but in the absence of any physical evidence that the flight went south, no alternative possibilities should be discarded. For the sake of the relatives, and all passengers and crews flying 777s, the search must continue, but look north as well as well as south.
The northern tracks were eliminated as all the countries in that direction said that it had not shown on their radar defences. The possibility that one or more of them may not have told the truth (or had missed detecting the flight ) should be considered. If a country had detected it as an intruder and shot it down, maybe they would want to keep that quiet once they realised it was a commercial airliner, not a military aircraft.
There are number of hypothetical scenarios that could be considered, but in the absence of any physical evidence that the flight went south, no alternative possibilities should be discarded. For the sake of the relatives, and all passengers and crews flying 777s, the search must continue, but look north as well as well as south.
2M sq miles of that ocean have been searched. Time to look elsewhere. This report was given to the Malay officials 15 Apr - it got buried.
So - you claim a total "absence of physical evidence" - then how do you explain away the ULB pings picked up over several passes over several days by the Bluefin 21?
An escaped US Navy dolphin who just happened to be carrying a 37KHz pinger? Nothing of marine life origin in the ocean makes a 37KHz ping with a repetition rate of one ping per second.
The B777 is built like a tank, it flew into the water at just above stall speed, with empty fuel tanks, so no JetA1 slick. It likely stayed 99% intact except for the engines and some panels tearing off, all of which promptly sank. The conditions were warm Summer temperatures, low wave levels, and low wind levels at the surface at 8:00AM. No B777 has ever gone into the ocean, so we have nothing to work from as to this particular model of aircrafts behaviour when it ditches.
An impact into terra firma over the Northern route would result in an earth tremor recorded by seismic equipment, which is sensitive enough to record 250 tonne aircraft crash impacts. Nothing that might represent an aircraft impact has been picked up on the morning of the 8th March by the seismic recording equipment.
There have been serious numbers of aircraft that have disappeared without a trace into the open ocean, from the 1920's onwards. The numbers that went missing like this during WW2, would astound you.
An escaped US Navy dolphin who just happened to be carrying a 37KHz pinger? Nothing of marine life origin in the ocean makes a 37KHz ping with a repetition rate of one ping per second.
The B777 is built like a tank, it flew into the water at just above stall speed, with empty fuel tanks, so no JetA1 slick. It likely stayed 99% intact except for the engines and some panels tearing off, all of which promptly sank. The conditions were warm Summer temperatures, low wave levels, and low wind levels at the surface at 8:00AM. No B777 has ever gone into the ocean, so we have nothing to work from as to this particular model of aircrafts behaviour when it ditches.
An impact into terra firma over the Northern route would result in an earth tremor recorded by seismic equipment, which is sensitive enough to record 250 tonne aircraft crash impacts. Nothing that might represent an aircraft impact has been picked up on the morning of the 8th March by the seismic recording equipment.
There have been serious numbers of aircraft that have disappeared without a trace into the open ocean, from the 1920's onwards. The numbers that went missing like this during WW2, would astound you.