[logi_cal869]

Full Title: British ship HMS Echo arrives in area where 'pulses' that could have been from missing flight MH370 were heard.

I'm posting this out of a sincere dose of facetiousness, as I'm ROFLMAO at the 'new graphic' released to explain the location of the new search area: Now only ONE of the prior signals is "believed to be" of a black box acoustic signal. LOL.

Oh, and in case it was forgotten, the Malays & the NTSB, on the basis of the Imarsat Data, established the prior flight paths of the plane as noted below.

I'm awaiting a 'fourth' possible flight path to be released to coincide with new findings in the coming days.../s

[Jack Hydrazine]

One ping only!

[Sacajaweau]

The latest I read is that the batteries are going to run out tomorrow.

Clever........idiots

[Don Corleone]

Don’t the Limeys profess to have a new super sub with global sonar capabilities?

[Iron Munro]

Chasing the elusive Red Herring.....

[mountainlion]

They need to look in Pakistan.

[Uncle Chip]

So it appears that the Chinese are searching in an area just short of the 811 Inmarsat Arc.

Interesting —

[Georgia Girl 2]

Of course we are all waiting for the tragic announcement that the time has run out and the batteries expired before the location of the black box could be determined.

I have never piloted a ship in my life but I as many of you guys out there are smart enough to #1 know the black box pings continuously not once a day; #2 figure that if you cross the signal line and get one ping you would logically turn in a circle until you are on the signal line which should give you the continuous pinging signal and lead to the black box location.

Meanwhile on an airstrip in Pakistan/Iran or Diego Garcia.

[A CA Guy]

What if the black box was removed and dumped there? That should give cnn another month of material.

[jonrick46]

The plane is in Iran. The Chinese are in on the charade. They gave the nuclear technology to Iran. This Flight 370 was a test run to see if they can fly a 777 low enough so it is undetected by radar. Next there will be a 777 flying undetected into Israel, loaded with a nuke.

The 777 is made with the new composite material. If that 777 crashed in the ocean, it would have broken up. Its wings are composite. That composite material floats. The wings should have been found floating. All the seats float. If the passengers were still strapped in their seats, they would have been floating in their seats. If Flight 370 is in water, they would have found the debris by now.

[NonValueAdded]

If you are searching for pings, what better ship is there to send than HMS Echo?

[I want the USA back]

When it is finally firmly established that the ROP pilots flew the plane into the ocean as an act of vengeance against the Chinese passengers, the news media will suddenly and without warning drop all coverage.

[I cannot think of a name]

Just a note to my fellow Freepers:

“signals from the plane’s black box as the batteries powering the device are expected to run out in the next few days.”

Is of course total horse manure. The way the battery ‘life’ is determined is as follows. A statistically significant sample lot of batteries is tested. When the first battery of the lot decreases in power output below the minimum threshold, they back off a certain amount of time from that date, and that is the service life of the battery.

So the facts are, at the battery ‘life’ date, none of the batteries should actually be dead. And as you move past that point, only a small number of batteries should be dead. The median average of batteries will probably last twice as long.

If these units were equipped with one of the worst batteries, it will stop pinging in a week or two. And if it were equipped with a median battery, it could last for another month. And many of the batteries will actually last longer than that.

Unfortunately the truth takes out some of the drama that CNN and other news whores have been using to try to prop up their crappy ratings.

[jocon307]

Is this a special type of ship, or is it just a lovely coincidence that its name is “Echo”?

[B212]

if you go to Goggle earth off Perth Australia, they have posted a number of sat photos roughly indicating the aircraft flight path...

[ElkGroveDan]

Too late, I think I found it. There’s a bunch of metal wreckage in a field outside of Fresno. It lies right a long a curve that I drew on a map after a few drinks last night.

[PghBaldy]

Australia now saying on live news conference that US towed pinger finder heard 2 hour signal of a signal.

[Intolerant in NJ]

... Malays & the NTSB, on the basis of the Imarsat Data, established the prior flight paths of the plane as noted below...actually each of those arcs probably represent a plot of the possible locations of the plane at the time of one of the pings picked up by the satellite - the only way to come up with the actual flight path would be to connect one point on each of the arcs (unless you thought the plane was flying precisely along one of the arcs), say in a more or less straight line from Malaysia toward India, maybe into Pakistan even.....

[bert]

There are three or four path shown. Actually there an infinite number of paths between those at the divergent extremes.

The path must be depicted as a fan rather than a line