Posted on 03/31/2014 12:43:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Potential leads on the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 keep coming. So do the setbacks and frustrations.
Monday's search ended without finding anything significant, Australian officials said. Four orange objects spotted by search aircraft and earlier described as promising turned out be nothing more than old fishing gear, they said.
Underscoring the difficulty of the search, U.S. Navy officials loaded underwater locating gear aboard an Australian naval support vessel and set out to sea Monday evening, but won't be able to make use of the equipment until searchers narrow the search zone.
U.S. Navy Cmdr. William Marks told CNN's "State of the Union" that his team needs a conclusive piece of debris to narrow down the search area before deploying the equipment.
"We have to be careful not to send it in the wrong place," he said. "But we also wanted to get it out there as close as we can to what we believe is the right place."
The gear includes a pinger locator that's towed behind a ship and scans for the sound of the locator beacon attached to the plane's flight data recorder. Also on board is a remotely operated submersible that can look for wreckage on the ocean floor.
It will take the ship, the Ocean Shield, three days just to get to the search zone, leaving precious little time to locate the plane's flight data recorders before the batteries on its locator beacon run out. The batteries are designed to last 30 days; the plane has been missing 23 days.
Under favorable sea conditions, the pingers can be heard 2 nautical miles away. But high seas, background noise, wreckage or silt can all make pingers harder to detect.
In this case, searchers barely know where to look at all.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
That is funny.
“I’ll take Pakistan for 1000, Alex”.
Oh nooes! Meanwhile on an airstrip in Pakistan/Iran. :-)
Wow I beat someone finally in my 15 years on Freerepublic.
I am now calling Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 “Schrodinger’s Airplane.” Obviously, it cannot be determined to be alive or dead until it’s observed.
why is a warship (as opposed to anything else)
needed to tow the ‘ping locator’?
If alive, these people may have made it to terminus...
“and that clue will lead you to another clue, and another clue!”
I’ve seen a similar movie before.
The news media are like a bunch of cats frantically trying to cover something in the litter box on this one.
Something was said this evening on CNN/MH370 Network about the Malaysian radar indicated the plane flew in “loopys” (or some similar absurd expression) over Malaysia. Did anyone else hear that? I only caught part of it a little after 6PM CST.
Well, if Malaysia wants to play Protect Islam at All Costs game, we can hand them the black box, sure. After we download it. They can sue us.
and speaking of handing over things, since we'll never learn any details about the good-boy co-pilot, when is Malay going to cough up uncle Ali and his tehran phone number carrying self? I find it a little hard to believe that two chance-of-a-lifetime asylum seekers ostensibly going to different endpoints, cancelled split flights and insisted on traveling together while acting more like they were on holiday than fleeing authorities who would have jailed and tortured them for defecting.
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