Mystery Flight MH370 missing

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HitTheNailOnTheHead said:
I appreciate the time you put into writing all that. Very convincing.
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No dramas. I have been down the very same path, seemingly unable to fathom why someone would deliberately crash MH370 in one of the remotest locations on earth.
 
HitTheNailOnTheHead said:
Do you think they'll ever find the crash site?
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Eventually yes. Problem is with the available evidence it's hard to narrow the search area. During the next search Ocean Infinity could be searching a mere km away laterally and not find it.
 

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HitTheNailOnTheHead said:
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Ashton Forbes is a cooker who is after clicks by posting absurd things.

It took just 8 months for a boat that broke free from its moorings in WA to travel drift all the way to Africa:

thewest.com.au

Lost boat drifted 4000 nautical miles

A boat that broke its moorings in Exmouth eight months ago has been found off the coast of Africa.
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Id ignore everything he claims completely.
 
Zidane98 said:
Ashton Forbes is a cooker who is after clicks by posting absurd things.

It took just 8 months for a boat that broke free from its moorings in WA to travel drift all the way to Africa:

thewest.com.au

Lost boat drifted 4000 nautical miles

A boat that broke its moorings in Exmouth eight months ago has been found off the coast of Africa.
thewest.com.au thewest.com.au

Id ignore everything he claims completely.
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I've thought about this some more. Surely a boat would drift a lot quicker than a flaperon?
 
HitTheNailOnTheHead said:
I've thought about this some more. Surely a boat would drift a lot quicker than a flaperon?
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There's no way to calculate that as you can't replicate the same conditions or accurately model how it floats. There were some studies done however none included a replica of ocean currents / weather which is a massive unknown variable.

In any case the boat took just 8 months whereas debris had 16 months to make the trip. And unlike the boat mh370 debris had a start point far out to sea.

Anyone who tries to claim debris floating from one side of the Indian Ocean to the other in 16 months is full of it. No person can make that claim without a full test replicating the exact same conditions. Which is impossible. For instance in the weeks after MH370 went down a cyclone passed through the area.
 
Macka_321 said:
Hopefully this new search gets up and running soon plane needs to be found.
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Noting about it in the media since it was reported that Malaysia had agreed another no find no fee search to be conducted by Ocean Infinity earlier this month.


Really hope this is the time the plane is found. What makes this search particularly difficult is getting resources out to the general search area which by itself is 3 to 4 day boat trip minimum from Perth. Too far away for most helicopters to transport crew back and forth.


The hardest part of all is the actual size of the search area. We have no exact position of the aircraft, just a general area. It took France 2 years to find the crash site of AF447 and with that search they had the exact position of the aircraft, altitude, speed and heading 4 mins prior to the crash. Still took them 2 years of searching with some of the finest deep sea technology in the world. Eventually it was found very close to a previously searched area.

The odds are stacked against Ocean Infinity here but they seem confident enough to do the search entirely at their own financial risk so they must have a reasonably high level of confidence.


If such a search is agreed it really needs to start right away as Dec - March is the only time of year where weather conditions are helpful to a deep sea search.
 
I think they have a spot in mind which is only about 30kms from the last search. The challenge is how deep it is plus it’s not a flat bottom either with lots of mountains etc.
 
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Malaysia approves new search for missing flight MH370
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Getty Images A file picture of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 - similar to the one which operated flight MH370Getty Images
The Malaysian government says it has agreed in principle to resume the search for a passenger jet that vanished 10 years ago in one of aviation's greatest mysteries.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 while on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board.
Efforts to locate the wreckage of the Boeing 777 have sputtered over the years and hundreds of families of those on board remain haunted by the tragedy.
On Friday, Malaysia's transport minister Anthony Loke said the cabinet approved in principle a $70m (£56m) deal with US-based marine exploration firm Ocean Infinity to find the aircraft.

Under a "no find, no fee" arrangement, Ocean Infinity will get paid only when the wreckage is found.
A 2018 search by Ocean Infinity under similar terms ended unsuccessfully after three months.
A multinational effort that cost $150m ended in 2017 after two years of scouring vast waters.
While the government has "in principle" accepted Ocean Infinity's offer, Loke said negotiations over specific terms of the deal were still ongoing and would be finalised early next year.
The new search will cover a 15,000 sq km patch in the southern Indian Ocean, based on new data that Kuala Lumpur found to be "credible", the minister said.
"We hope this time will be positive," Loke said, adding that finding the wreckage would give closure to the families of those on board.
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'Best Christmas present ever'
Relatives of passengers on MH370 welcomed the Malaysian government's approval of a new search.
"I am so happy for the news... Feels like the best Christmas present ever," Jacquita Gonzales, the wife of MH370 inflight supervisor Patrick Gomes, told the New Straits Times.
"This announcement stirs mixed emotions - hope, gratitude, and sorrow. After nearly 11 years, the uncertainty and pain of not having answers have been incredibly difficult for us," Intan Maizura Othaman also told the papers. Her husband, Mohd Hazrin Mohamed Hasnan, was a member of the cabin crew.
Jiang Hui, whose mother was on the plane, told Reuters news agency the Malaysian government must have a "more open approach" to the search to allow more players to take part.
 
Here is hoping that MH370 can be found. At a minimum it brings partial closure to the loved ones of those onboard. Such a terrible loss of life and we will probably never know the truth.
 
If they do find it, is it even possible in waters that deep to recover anything? This is far deeper than the Air France wreckage was and significantly longer in the water. At water pressure that significant for 10 years, would the black boxes be able to withstand it?
 
Teagueeee15 said:
If they do find it, is it even possible in waters that deep to recover anything? This is far deeper than the Air France wreckage was and significantly longer in the water. At water pressure that significant for 10 years, would the black boxes be able to withstand it?
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It's solid state memory in a sealed module.

It's possible data could still be retrieved.
 
Teagueeee15 said:
If they do find it, is it even possible in waters that deep to recover anything? This is far deeper than the Air France wreckage was and significantly longer in the water. At water pressure that significant for 10 years, would the black boxes be able to withstand it?
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When you consider the depth the Titanic wreck is at and the tiny little bottles of perfume that have been brought to the surface intact (which blows my mind) I suppose anything is possible.

 

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