Posted on 04/05/2014 10:18:12 AM PDT by servo1969
Malaysian officials admitted Saturday that the batteries on the black box of missing flight MH370 were expired and due to be replaced.
The plane has been missing for 28 days.
A Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370 flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing has lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control at 2.40am, 8th March 2014. The plane was carrying a total number of 227 passengers including two infants and twelve crew members.
The Strait Times reported:
Malaysia Airlines chief executive officer (CEO) Ahmad Jauhari Yahya today confirmed that the batteries of the black box pingers of the missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH370 were due for replacement in June.“And as far as the batteries are concerned, we confirm that there is a maintenance programme whereby the batteries are replaced prior to its expiry.
“We do know that the batterries are due for replacement only in June 2014,” he said at a briefing on the search operation for MH370, here today.
Ahmad Jauhari said this in respond to a question from the floor whether the pinger batteries were due for replacement in 2012, as claimed by its US based manufacturer Dukane Seacom Inc.
On Friday, Dukane Seacom Inc president Anish Patel told CNN that the recorders were scheduled for battery replacements in 2012, but they were never returned for the overhaul.
All commercial aircraft are required to carry pingers, known as underwater locator beacons, to help investigators locate them should they crash into water.
One is attached to the flight data recorder (FDR) and another to the cockpit voice recorder (CVR).
The FDR and CVR make up the flight recorders, also known as the black box. The pings sound about once per second, and can be detected from two nautical miles away by towed pinger locators (TPLs).
my bro is a retired captain.
Except that the reported location of the ping doesn’t gel with the calculated flight path based on the Inmarsat pings, and is hundreds of kilometers from the position of the final one.
Not saying that this couldn’t be the final resting place, but just restating that their data has been full of holes since the beginning. And now a ship sailing WAY outside any search area finds ‘pings’ after all the other searchers have been on a wild goose chase elsewhere.
I’m sure they’ll come up with a clever-sounding explanation after something is confirmed...
That's a moronic sentence, written in typical drive-by style.
The batteries were not due to be replaced until June, and I'm sure the replacement schedule doesn't wait until the very end.
Unfortunately, none of the pings were recorded.
Are they complete idiots?
Or just a bunch of rotten liars.
Then there is this..
On Friday, Dukane Seacom Inc president Anish Patel told CNN that the recorders were scheduled for battery replacements in 2012, but they were never returned for the overhaul.
so, it was due in 2012 and not done by Dukane.. Dud someone do it? or where they way past due?
Not intending to disrespect your brother in any way whatsoever or to judge his piloting skills; I am sure they are superlative.
But that doesn't make him an Oceanographer, an expert on ocean currents.
So, based on two different stories ( 2 boats have heard the ping and the pings are only good out to about 2 miles) there are two ships within 2 miles of the black boxes.
Should be pretty simple to zero in on where the ping is coming from.
Get a 3rd boat so you can triangulate, and there it is.
Yeah, my umbrage expressed in #63 is not justified, given Patel's statement (I should have RTFA, LOL).
However, if the batteries have gone unreplaced for years, then we shouldn't be hearing anything, should we?
I’m with you on that ... Pakistan or Iran theory one ... Diego Garcia theory two ... that second one is a nauseating possibility since it would have to be a false flag operation ... I’ve never been one for conspiracy theories, but I would put nothing out of the realm of possibility when it comes to either Obongo or the CIA!
I’m with you on that ... Pakistan or Iran theory one ... Diego Garcia theory two ... that second one is a nauseating possibility since it would have to be a false flag operation ... I’ve never been one for conspiracy theories, but I would put nothing out of the realm of possibility when it comes to either Obongo or the CIA!
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