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MH370: Likely piece of doomed plane found
A piece of wreckage from a Boeing 777 -- likely from MH370 -- was found washed ashore over the weekend on the coast of Mozambique, a U.S. official told CNN on Wednesday. (www.cnn.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Hey, wake me up when you know something for sure. This "might be" and "could be" nonsense has been going on for two years now and I am sure we are all fed up with poor-to-mediocre journalists filling pages with suppositions. Get the hell out of my face and do your jobs properly.
The Whole fact is they know where this plane is. They are just out wasting money trying to find something that is laying under there feet. It took what 3 days to find any sign of Air France 447 in the middle of the Atlantic but yet they can't even find more then one piece of MH370. I am with you thou this is become stupid. We hear daily oh we may have found MH370 then a day later is looks nope that's not the plane. Just get over it already and find the dam plane and let the truth come out.
You are correct. They know its in the Indian Ocean. Any help you can give from there would be much appreciated. They wouldn't have to "waste" so much money. There is absolutely no commonality between MH370 and AF447 outside of being water crashes. Searchers had a very good idea where to start looking for AF447 and it pancaked into the water leaving large pieces of wreckage. They also had very good known hits on the black boxes before losing the signal. It then took 2 years to recover them. MH370 may have crashed more like SA111 except tracking signals from SA111 were lost 6 min prior to impact instead of 6+ hrs for MH370 and the search area was easy and quick to get to. SA111 broke into millions of little pieces with the largest being the engine cores and main gear. Few pieces drifted to shores. If this happened to MH370, searchers really aren't doing too bad after just two years considering the remote possible location.
When they launch a Minuteman from Vandenberg to Kwajalein some 4800 miles it lands close enough that a guy in dingy can row out and fish it out of the bay. That is because a mathematician has calculated a "hole in the sky" that the rocket pushes the payload through on the way up.
Why can't a mathematician use the known flight data for MH170 to calculate where is the "hole?" Once that is known the landing area can be easily determined.
I worry that funding will be withdrawn from the search because "we looked everywhere."
I am not sure how much the US has contributed to the search, but it is not enough until the plane is found and the reason it is missing is found.
Closure for the families of the missing is important, but also to protect the thousands who fly the 777 daily if there is a way to prevent a similar disaster.
Why can't a mathematician use the known flight data for MH170 to calculate where is the "hole?" Once that is known the landing area can be easily determined.
I worry that funding will be withdrawn from the search because "we looked everywhere."
I am not sure how much the US has contributed to the search, but it is not enough until the plane is found and the reason it is missing is found.
Closure for the families of the missing is important, but also to protect the thousands who fly the 777 daily if there is a way to prevent a similar disaster.
Because the Kwajalein area is covered by visual and probably spy satellites and multiple radar and a Minuteman missile reaches up to 700 miles high and coming down is practicably vertical. MH370 was around 6.25 miles level flight before an unknown end of flight scenario. The US has contributed resources such as US Navy towed pinger locator, FBI, NTSB and of course Boeing. As per ICAO Annex 13 its in Australia's territory and Malaysia's ultimate responsibility.
ICAO requirements also mean any state of manufacture is required to help, as are requested parts manufacturers. Most major world Accident Investigation organisations offer assistance and Interpol and the FBI etc are also interlinked. We are all hopeful they can find 9M-MRO soon but if not the search will end when the current area is completed as there is no further information that could contribute to finding it.
ICAO requirements also mean any state of manufacture is required to help, as are requested parts manufacturers. Most major world Accident Investigation organisations offer assistance and Interpol and the FBI etc are also interlinked. We are all hopeful they can find 9M-MRO soon but if not the search will end when the current area is completed as there is no further information that could contribute to finding it.
Could you expand on who you believe the 'they' are who know where the plane is?
I wonder if there are many people such as Mr. Gibson constantly patrolling the vast areas that wreckage could drift to. Along with finding the pieces in the first place, having an approximate time of arrival at the location would greatly help the ocean current drift experts. As I said early on in the MH370 loss, its not as much us finding MH370, its how long until MH370 finds us.