'First visual sighting' boosts Malaysia airliner search

AFP News ^ | March 23, 2014

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Investigators have made the first visual sighting of objects that could be linked to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on Saturday, but officials warned it was "too early" to be sure the sighting was linked to the missing aircraft.

Australian officials said a wooden cargo pallet, along with its belts or straps, was spotted Saturday in a remote stretch of the southern Indian Ocean that has become the focus of an intense international search in recent days.

Wooden pallets are quite common in aircraft and ship cargo holds.

"Part of the description was a wooden pallet and a number of other items which were nondescript around it and some belts of some different colours," AMSA aircraft operations coordinator Mike Barton said.

[umgud]

Great link. Thanks

[Spartan302]

For several hours its been posted about images but so far the MSM isn’t showing any, my guess is they have already screened them and they went “Oh shit, its just garbage, no more Breaking News”.

[mazda77]

There seems to be a huge effort to keep these sat image sightings front and center. They know the currents and the Sat locations and still nothing? Tomorrow is the date referred to by Islamic chatter weeks ago.

[don-o]

Which increases my surmise that the plane is on the ground, intact and being fitted for its next flight. You?

[Mr. Jeeves]

There seems to be a huge effort to keep these sat image sightings front and center.

A tiny elite is experimenting again with the mechanics of lying to seven billion people. TWA 800 established that truth is now whatever a government says it is.

[Hatteras]

"Tomorrow is the date referred to by Islamic chatter weeks ago."

Have not heard about this "chatter". Do we have any details about this chatter?

[Vaquero]

probably radioactive debris from Fukushima caught in an eddy and spun south and west, as opposed to the majority which went east.

[stonehouse01]

My surmise is the same as yours.

[Iron Munro]

As vast as the oceans may be, they are still full of man made junk and garbage of all sizes.

[mazda77]

Only logical explanation since nothing has been found on the ocean surface. The numbers of people that were awakened in the Maldives say they saw a large airliner that morning flying at low altitude to the SSE that morning at about the same time it could have been in that area is telling as there is an airfield on the southern most island of the chain that was long enough to land it and take off again.

Again, no reports of any kind that any investigative team even going there. Plus the Maldives are essentially Islamic. Remember, they have been having their own separatist issues going on there as well.

[KeyLargo]

I recently saw the good film ALL IS LOST on Netflix

The best part was Redford does not have any dialogue in the film but does portray what a man alone in the sea would have to contend with to stay alive.

I won’t give away the details but the film shows how large debris in the Indian Ocean is a real problem.

ALL IS LOST

2013 / Adventure, Drama

Deep into a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, an unnamed man (Redford) wakes to find his 39-foot yacht taking on water after a collision with a shipping container left floating on the high seas. With his navigation equipment and radio disabled, the man sails unknowingly into the path of a violent storm. Despite his success in patching the breached hull, his mariner’s intuition, and a strength that belies his age, the man barely survives the tempest.Using only a sextant and nautical maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean currents to carry him into a shipping lane in hopes of hailing a passing vessel. But with the sun unrelenting, sharks circling and his meager supplies dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds himself staring his mortality in the face.

http://www.ondvdreleases.com/1793-all-is-lost-dvd-release-date.html

[Cen-Tejas]

Correct! In the Navy, we use to throw them overboard with targets strapped to them and take target practice at them.........mostly out of boredom but, LOL, the skipper called it “training”.

[mazda77]

I saw a link to it over a week ago and did not bookmark it.

[Georgia Girl 2]

The disinformation campaign continues. Meanwhile on an airstrip in W Pakistan. :-)

[Lower Deck]

Our submarines and sonar buoys can hear a mouse fart for miles, point it’s location and tell you what it had to eat.

It's a little more difficult than that. How far you can detect a target through passive means depends on water conditions, temperature, salinity, depth, biologics in the area, signal strength, so forth.

[Norseman]

It’s been asked. The main transmitter can be turned off by the pilot and often is when a hard landing is anticipated, so it doesn’t go off on a normal landing.

The other ones have to be manually turned on by the flight crew when a water landing is anticipated.

So neither of these are likely to be pinging since the flight crew was probably incapacitated and the pilot or copilot would have turned of the main transmitter.

This is all according to one of the “experts” on Fox who has usually made sense when he’s asked a question, answering primarily technical questions.

[Spartan302]

shhhhhh!

posting comments like this too often will cause FR to go down, your internet connection to fail and your browser to crash.

But for some real fun you can admit Sarah Palin will be POTUS, Obamacare will be repealed, 35 states acknowledge Obama failed to qualify for election and thus is invalid to be POTUS, all Executive Decision since first election are null and void. Russia will join forces with the Tea Party and will create a new militia in the seceded state of New Alaska.

[Norseman]

Rush made the point a few days ago that even if the plane is eventually found in the water so many conspiracy theories have sprouted that it will now be impossible to convince everyone that the plane was really found and to explain to them what most likely happened.

I think he’s correct.

[KeyLargo]

There are thousands of tons of floating large debris in oceans that are maritime hazards to shipping.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

In one part of the North Pacific Ocean, the ocean currents create a gyre (a huge slowly moving spiral of water). Scientists have found the world’s biggest floating landfill there.

It’s hard to know how much garbage is in the gyre, but it’s probably millions of pounds. Scientists think that it is nearly impossible to scoop up all the trash—there is just way too much. Some people think it is as large as the continent of North America and over 100 feet deep! pThere is no solid island of debris from Japan heading to the United States. Here is an example of confirmed Japan tsunami marine debris arriving in the U.S.: a 4-by-4-foot plastic bin spotted off the eastern coast of Oahu, Hawaii, on September 18, 2012. The barnacles on its bottom are a common open-water species. (Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory)

[Norseman]

I wonder what the General who insists the plane is in Pakistan thinks of all the money and effort being put into finding the plane in the South Indian Ocean?

Anyway, it fits well with my suspicion that the pilot, for political reasons, commandeered the plane, overcame the copilot (or simply locked him out of the cabin), disabled everyone else, then started to circle back to Malaysia to do his own 9/11 before coming to his senses, realizing what he’d done, and then taking a suicide dive into the ocean.

And if he didn’t change his mind, but just ran out of fuel on the way in, they’ll find the plane south of Malaysia near Singapore. (I doubt that, but looking at the pings, that’s the likely course he would have taken if he were headed back to Malaysia.)