Malaysia Airlines Flight Goes Missing En Route to China

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope the Chinese have found the plane. Today is the last day for the pingers.

The pinger batteries last "around" 30 days. It's not like a battery says, "oh, 30 days, I have to stop working now." They often last 8-10 days longer. Or they could have stopped already.

[Anonymous]

Ever since it was concluded by Inmarsat that the plane had flown in the Southern corridor, I wondered why we'd heard nothing from Indonesia. Well, CNN reporting now that 370 flew North of and then around Indonesia.

[Anonymous]

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Ever since it was concluded by Inmarsat that the plane had flown in the Southern corridor, I wondered why we'd heard nothing from Indonesia. Well, CNN reporting now that 370 flew North of and then around Indonesia.

From what I have heard Australia got radar returns from the plane. Think how quickly the Americans and Australia started a search the area they are in now.

[Anonymous]

Australian Navy ship has heard sounds consistent with the black boxes. They're about 300 miles from where the Chinese heard something, but this sounds like a more promising lead.

"Houston said the vessel, the Ocean Shield, picked up the signals on two separate occasions Sunday — once for more than two hours, a second time for 13 minutes. On the second occasion, two distinct noises were detected, which would be expected if both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder are emitting beacons."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/australian-navy-vessel-reports-signals-consistent-with-black-box/2014/04/07/7ce89a18-be12-11e3-b195-dd0c1174052c_story.html?tid=pm_pop

[Anonymous]

....The Australian navy's Ocean Shield, which is carrying high-tech sound detectors from the U.S. Navy, picked up two separate signals within a remote patch of the Indian Ocean far off the west Australian coast that search crews have been crisscrossing for weeks. The first signal lasted two hours and 20 minutes before it was lost. The ship then turned around and picked up a signal again - this time recording two distinct "pinger returns" that lasted 13 minutes, Houston said.....
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-a-most-promising-lead-in-search-area/

Let's hope this is it.

[Anonymous]

Lies, distortions, and errors:

- the media keeps repeating that the pingers' signals have a range of 2 miles once submerged. However, the Austrians are picking up the signals in locations at least 17 miles apart. And the Chinese claim to picked up signals from much further than that. Obviously, the ranger is either a whole lot further than "2 miles" or the technology detecting the signals is far more sensitive than previously divulged (and probably classified).

-the company that made the recorders states that the plane's particular unit was due to be returned to the US factory for an overhaul in 2012. That was to include factory replacement of the battery. The unit was not returned by the Indonesians.

The Indonesians acknowledged that only the factory is able to replace the battery. But they refused to say whether the batteries were replaced. Apparently, they ignored the maintnance schedule.

As for the 30-day batttery life: it is WARRANTIED for a minimum of 30 days life span (assuming the maintnance schedule is followed. Which it wasn't). Once the 30 days is up, the batteries don't suddenly "turn off" - they gradually lose power as would happen with a flashlight. That is consistent with what's happeneing: the signals are becomming gradually weaker.

-Debris: there was an ocean storm/hurricane out at sea in this area with the last week or so. Those sorts of winds/waves plus the currents, could have scattered what floating debris there was in the area. Plus its about as remote as it gets out there.

[Anonymous]

I've always been assuming that the black boxes would sink…right? not float…

I hope this is it. and I hope the warranty PP described above has a safety net built into it…like food expiry labels. The food is safe a lot longer but they are protecting themselves, legally. So maybe if both the maintenance schedule is conservative, and the battery life is conservative, then the pingers are still going.

[Anonymous]

The Chinese pinging was already debunked, as probably coming from their own ship.

[Anonymous]

Depth of where the plane likely is, put into perspective. It's pretty damn deep.

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/the-depth-of-the-problem/931/?tid=sm_fb

[Anonymous]

There seem to be suggestions from the media that the ship has now launched the "Bluefin" submarine robot. If true, that means one of two possibilities:

1) they think they have homed-in on the recorder's location or

2) they believe the pinger batteries have died completely and they are making their best guess as to the location.

[Anonymous]

Where is this plane??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is this plane??

Option 1 - in the deepest part of the Indian Ocean
Option 2 - in a hangar somewhere within the range of the fuel load for the flight.

[Anonymous]

It's interesting to see that lately more international newspapers are sharing the conspiracy theory that the plane landed somewhere as a possibility albeit farfetched.

[Anonymous]

Posting again-looks like even in the US this is not being ruled out.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-warships-rush-aid-search-234813357.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's interesting to see that lately more international newspapers are sharing the conspiracy theory that the plane landed somewhere as a possibility albeit farfetched.

Where have you been the past 6 weeks? The same exact tinfoil hat conspiracy theories were being written and talked about a day after the plane went missing. It's not new.