Wow, they pay folks to write this drivel?
Don't all "breakthroughs" come in the midst of failures?
Anyway, the batteries on the FDR are close to dead, hope they find it soon.
Oh good, we’re back to the daily “best lead yet” stories. I knew there was something missing from my life last week.
The beat-the-clock/find-the-ping plot device is a nice new wrinkle. Very creative storytelling.
I’m not a rocket scientist but it seems to me that they should place a transponder in these black boxes... you put the transponder on a low voltage standby until it receives the challenge pulses then it “wakes up” and it can begin a full power transmit of its response...
<> Investigators believe the area is the most likely spot where the plane may have run out of fuel<>
Not according to this:
https://www.facebook.com/178566888854999/photos/pcb.740971779281171/740971732614509/?type=1&theater
It would mean that the plane flew a shorter distance, at a slower speed, and was probably scuttled closer to land with fuel still in the tank.
If all this was done on purpose - wouldn’t they have yanked out the black box and voice recorder and dumped them somehow somewhere where the plane isn’t?
Can a plane like that dump something overboard with no regard to passengers?
BS; this is just cover for them to create the scenario that the batteries expired and we can BE ASSURED that it is in the Indian Ocean. Why should we doubt the Chinese?
Do the Chinese people find the word “Ping” racist? Just checking.
I don’t think I will believe anything until they have video of part of the hull being hoisted out of the water.
This is so far so wrong so often, I’ll have doubt when they show us the black box. I’ve quit following it for now.
I am glad it is the Australians.
I don't trust the Chinese claiming to have picked up the signal many thousands of feet away, while allegedly using a hand held device, according to the manufacturer, good for 600 feet,
Also the Chinese went rogue and were not in the designated search area.
If the Chinese actually did pick up a signal it was probably from a more sophisticated device on the main ship, and they were using the hand held hydrophone as a decoy to prevent giving away their more sophisticated equipment.
These alleged Chinese and Australian pings are hundreds of miles apart. -Tom
Too bad it can't detect pings from a black box in an aircraft sitting on some out of the way, fly-blown airstrip in Pock-Eee-Stohn or Iran.
Let’s say they have narrowed it down to a few square miles. I know they have discussed sending down drones. But even if they get right at the plane I am not sure how they retrieve black boxes at such a depth in the event they are not just laying there on the ocean floor.
Graphic of most recent ping sounds locations:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-09/ocean-shield-detected-pingers-mh370-search/5378120