MH370: Missing jet 'could be further north'

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[BenLurkin]

A team led by Eric Jansen, from the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change in Italy, is the latest to try its hand at using modelling to identify the impact site.

The approach relies on two years of high-resolution data that describe the currents and wind conditions across the Indian and Southern oceans.

Multiple simulations were used to predict where objects might drift given different starting points.

These forecasts were then analysed and the greatest weight given to those tracks that best matched the locations of known MH370 debris items.

These are the parts of the Boeing 777, such as an engine cowling and wing flap, that have since washed up on the beaches of Africa and Indian-ocean islands.

The conclusion is that main wreckage of the plane is likely to be in the wide search area between 28 degrees South and 35 degrees South that was designated by crash investigators.

However, only the southern end of this zone - a priority segment between 32 degrees South and 35 degrees South - is currently being surveyed by underwater cameras and detectors.

This still leaves a swathe of ocean floor to the north where Dr Jansen and colleagues say MH370 could possibly be resting today undiscovered.

[chopperman]

I have never heard of the ‘Southern’ Ocean. Tell me more about it.

[Carriage Hill]

“The last time something interesting happened in the Indian Ocean Nixon was in the White House”

Best line all week! LOL.

[Rockpile]

Have never heard that anyone even bothered to take a look
at the spot where that guy claimed to have seen an airplane
in a satellite image under water off of a beach south of Cape Town.

Seems like someone would check just in case he might be right.

[TXnMA]

"A team led by Eric Jansen, from the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change in Italy, is the latest to try its hand at using modelling to identify the impact site."

No hope of finding the plane, but the models will say the impact raised sea level six feet...