Posted on 07/27/2016 9:24:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A team led by Eric Jansen, from the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change in Italy, is the latest to try its hand at using modelling to identify the impact site.
The approach relies on two years of high-resolution data that describe the currents and wind conditions across the Indian and Southern oceans.
Multiple simulations were used to predict where objects might drift given different starting points.
These forecasts were then analysed and the greatest weight given to those tracks that best matched the locations of known MH370 debris items.
These are the parts of the Boeing 777, such as an engine cowling and wing flap, that have since washed up on the beaches of Africa and Indian-ocean islands.
The conclusion is that main wreckage of the plane is likely to be in the wide search area between 28 degrees South and 35 degrees South that was designated by crash investigators.
However, only the southern end of this zone - a priority segment between 32 degrees South and 35 degrees South - is currently being surveyed by underwater cameras and detectors.
This still leaves a swathe of ocean floor to the north where Dr Jansen and colleagues say MH370 could possibly be resting today undiscovered.
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Someone has spy-satellite pictures of where the plane went.
There’s an Intel-Sat up there somewhere that photographed it. Very little gets past SkyNet.
Why wouldn’t they release it then?
It’s been rebadged as ISIS ONE
I still believe that this plane was jihadists headed fr Diego Garcia to take out the B52’s stationed there.
Several reasons occur, but they all fall into conspiracy territory.
Best one: it’s in a hangar, refitted with W8 nukes, ready for ISIS to fly into Vatican, Moscow, Beijing etc.
Hard to imagine more debris wasn’t found, unless it landed/crashed on land, and ocean search is a goose chase.
Whatever happened to the Black Box findings for the recent Egypt air crash???? I’ve never seen an investigation proceed so quietly and slowly.
Probably not. The middle of the Indian Ocean isn’t generally considered an interesting place. Spy satellites have very few places they always take pictures, they CAN take pictures of just about anywhere but first somebody has to decide that area is worth a picture. And nobody wants to fill up terabytes worth of drives with pictures of empty uninteresting ocean “just in case”.
Way too much work. There’s over a dozen passenger jet storage facilities all over the world, anybody with the cash can buy a plane, anybody with the cash and a cutout can buy a plane with nobody knowing they did. In a world where John Travolta can own a jumbo jet and nobody cares the effort it would take to steal a plane in flight generating years worth of press would be pointless.
The ocean eats things. Look how often we find lost boats from over a century ago. And those are in coastal waters. Things that sink into the middle of nowhere are GONE. Most of the debris will sink, and if the plane is ever seen again it will be 200 years from now because somebody is drilling for something in just the right place. If it was “stolen” (which would be a pointless waste of effort since there are literally thousands of planes in long term storage available for purchase by basically anybody) they’d have used it by now.
Last I heard, the cockpit voice recorder talks about a fire on board and efforts to extinguish it.
I’d think that with all the thousands of ‘eyes in the sky’, one of them would have locked onto 370 and followed it. I still believe there’s a record of it, somewhere.
Why would they bother to follow a normal boring passenger jet on a normal boring commercial route? There’s hundreds of them in the air around the world at any minute, if our spy satellites were following them around we wouldn’t have any left to look at important things like Russian missile silos and troop movements. You might believe it, but the facts and logic say there isn’t a record, anywhere. It doesn’t track.
Look, I’m not saying it was Martians, but...
Apparently, that wasn’t a normal boring route; it was way off course and erratic, so perhaps it was followed for that reason. I don’t know, but I’ll stay with a gut hunch it was tracked. With hundreds/thousands of satellites, who knows what they track.
By the time it became not boring it was too late to start following it with a satellite. Things don’t work like in the movies, if they had no reason for satellites to be taking pictures they don’t just suddenly have pictures anyway. The last time something interesting happened in the Indian Ocean Nixon was in the White House, it’s just not a spot to waste time taking and processing picture of.
With a finite number of satellites it’s quite easy to know what they track. And normal passenger jets on normal routes are NOT on that list.
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