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Malaysian Airlines MH370: Huge 50 foot waves cripple salvage op -- plane may never be found
Express UK ^ | Friday, April 27, 2018 | Latifa Yedroudj

Posted on 04/29/2018 1:08:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

The search consists of a 65-man vessel Seabed Constructor equipped geared to scouring the depths of the Indian Ocean for any sight of plane debris from the MH370 aircraft.

But, four years after the plane went missing, the latest searches through the Indian Ocean has revealed nothing -- after 16,000sq km of the planned 25,000sq km area was combed through.

The search location was pinpointed by an Australian Oceanographer as the most likely spot the plane would be.

The Malaysian government paid Ocean Infinity $20 million for 5,000 square km of a successful search, $30 million for 15,000 square km, $50 million for 25, 000 square km and $70 million if the plane debris is recovered further out from the specified area.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: australia; indianocean; malaysia; mauritius; mh370; norway; seabedconstructor; texas
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1 posted on 04/29/2018 1:08:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
It's always been obvious that the trigger-happy Chinese shot it down because of the regime's illegal claims in the South China Sea, then covered it up with alacrity, probably executing the nitwit who pulled the trigger.

2 posted on 04/29/2018 1:10:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

“It’s always been obvious that the trigger-happy Chinese shot it down -———————”

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It has? That’s news to me.

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3 posted on 04/29/2018 1:12:58 PM PDT by Mears
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To: SunkenCiv

It’ll be found someday...maybe not anytime soon.Twenty years from now some new device making very detailed mapping of the ocean floor might be developed,eventually resulting in its discovery.


4 posted on 04/29/2018 1:12:58 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: SunkenCiv

The pilot (capt) took this aircraft down


5 posted on 04/29/2018 1:13:27 PM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: Java4Jay
The pilot (capt) took this aircraft down

It's certainly happened before.

6 posted on 04/29/2018 1:17:57 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: SunkenCiv
Ooops:

making very detailed mapping of the ocean floor = making very detailed mapping of the ocean floor possible

7 posted on 04/29/2018 1:19:18 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: Gay State Conservative

Future technology is difficult to predict, but it would provide some closure for the affected families and I hope you are correct.

It is also possible that the plane broke apart so severely as to be indiscernible from other debris that litters the ocean floor. The one thing I have never understood fully is with all the surface radar and satellites watching the world we inhabit how or why was the aircraft’s location when it disappeared not better known. Perhaps I am naive’ to think that the skies are watched so thoroughly, but it seems that even one country would have some incidental data that would provide a better clue as to the location. One would have to guess that the aircraft was not on it’s assigned course given the lack of evidence that was found by the search raising even more questions about what happened to it.


8 posted on 04/29/2018 1:22:09 PM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Java4Jay

Sure looks that way.

But then there were the two Muslims traveling with stolen passports. And a co-pilot who had a history of being lax with cockpit security.


9 posted on 04/29/2018 1:22:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

After the incident, they searched the captain’s home and found Flight Simulator software with a course towards the Indian Ocean saved. That’s pretty much a smoking gun in my book.


10 posted on 04/29/2018 1:26:38 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Gay State Conservative

Remember the a/c climbed to 38K ft for a short period of time after the transponders were turned off. The capt then donned his mask, disabled the cabin pressurization and did not deploy the oxygen masks. This is where he killed the passengers and crew.


11 posted on 04/29/2018 1:27:45 PM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: Java4Jay

He was brilliant at leaving no trace.


12 posted on 04/29/2018 1:31:04 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: SpaceBar

The sheer disappearance does not jibe with any conspiracy theories, group or individual.

Something weird happened to this thing due to nature and nature did the perfect job hiding it.


13 posted on 04/29/2018 1:33:56 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: volunbeer
The one thing I have never understood fully is with all the surface radar and satellites watching the world we inhabit how or why was the aircraft’s location when it disappeared not better known.

I don't know if this really applies to the point you've made,however:

I subscribe to a website called "flightradar24".It costs about $10 a year and with it you can track just about every commercial flight on earth...in real time.One thing that I've noticed is that on a flight from,say,JFK to Tokyo the site seems to lose track of the aircraft for a while as it passes over northern Canada and Alaska.suggesting that to me,at least, radar tracking doesn't exist *everywhere* in the world.

It seems to me that a remote part of the earth like the expanse of the Indian Ocean between Australia and southern African just might be such an area.

14 posted on 04/29/2018 1:41:52 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: Java4Jay

The Egyptian plane suicided into the Atlantic had a number Egyptian military officers on board.

I wonder if there was someone onboard MH370 who was a target.


15 posted on 04/29/2018 1:41:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv
The Malaysian government paid Ocean Infinity $20 million for 5,000 square km of a successful search…

If a "successful search" finds nothing, what does an unsuccessful search find?

16 posted on 04/29/2018 2:09:17 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: SunkenCiv

Re: “The seabed of the search areas is hilly and uneven.”

Obviously, that would make identifying debris much more difficult.

Areas like that also have frequent landslides, which could conceal large pieces of debris.

The good news - probably none of that seafloor has been surveyed before, so there will be a significant addition to scientific knowledge, even if they can’t find the plane.


17 posted on 04/29/2018 2:36:48 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: volunbeer

It’s a big planet. Surface radar requires a surface. Satellites don’t generally pay attention to the middle of nowhere unless there’s reason to believe there’s something interesting there.


18 posted on 04/29/2018 2:44:02 PM PDT by discostu (It's been so long, welcome back my friend, to the show, that never ends.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Have they checked Oak Island yet? Perhaps the Lagina brothers should be consulted.


19 posted on 04/29/2018 3:03:35 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: volunbeer
The one thing I have never understood fully is with all the surface radar and satellites watching the world we inhabit how or why was the aircraft’s location when it disappeared not better known

Google "Southern Ocean" and get back to us.

20 posted on 04/29/2018 3:05:44 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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