Posted on 03/28/2014 5:50:55 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
A plane has spotted objects in the Indian Ocean of the first day of searching a new location for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, but officials say it will take until tomorrow to determine whether they are related to the lost plane.
The search area moved 680 miles to the north east earlier today, and a New Zealand military plane, one of nine aircraft involved in the hunt, found the objects, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said on Twitter.
Amsa said the find needs to be confirmed by a ship which is expected to arrive in the area tomorrow.
The search area was shifted after new radar data analysis suggested the jet flew faster than originally thought and would have used up more fuel, which might have reduced the distance it travelled.
Amsa said the change in search area came from new information based on continuing analysis of radar data between the South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca before radar contact was lost with Flight 370 early on March 8.
'This is our best estimate of the area in which the aircraft is likely to have crashed into the ocean,' said Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.
The new search area is more than 600 miles north of an area in which apparently floating objects were spotted by Japanese, Thai and French satellites earlier this week....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Daily ocean junk PING.
It’s about time they found one thing that can definitely be linked to the missing plane.
Low altitude aerial photograpy is so clear, I can't believe they don't have a few definitive photos of these 'Objects". - tom
You may be right since the old flight line was assuming that it flew over northern Sumatra which would have been in Indonesian airspace and they would have painted it on radar.
The new route is the same as a route charted out early on that assumed that he flew further toward waypoint IGREX to get around Indonesia before turning south.
It also assumes an airspeed of 460mph not 518mph that they have been using. The 460 route versus the 518 route is in this link:
This means that opposed to what they are saying publicly they are assuming a slower air speed at lower altitude.
New track is here:
https://www.facebook.com/178566888854999/photos/pcb.740971779281171/740971732614509/?type=1&theater
But is’s not new at all and its not the faster track but the slower one since it assumes a slower speed of 400 knots [460 mph] as opposed to the faster speed of 450 knots [418 mph] for the older route.
This new route means that the pilot may not have wanted to go down with the ship putting it down instead in friendlier waters.
Another styrofoam cup?
When the airfrance plane went down, they were able to find some pieces of the plane, but didn’t recover the flight data recorders for two years. While I hope they can find some trace of flight 370, there is all sorts of junk floating in the ocean that falls off cargo ships, so I don’t have any expectations of this latest sighting.
Check out the links at posts 6 and 7 —
LOL -- from the Starbucks in the Cocos.
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Moving the search area northeast to follow the wind/ocean currents after 3 weeks:
Brilliant. </sarc>
Heh. If the ocean temps were more friendly, they could have been supplying pictures of people on floating objects and you couldn’t tell the difference between that and lifeless debris.
Great observation.
May be Quds in Iranian navy still yet to put some dummy 777 debris down there, then they’ll show the world the MH370 debris! I’m not kidding though.
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