"The tender documents set a strict timetable, with the contractor required to map 5,000 square kilometres every 25 days or risk having payments withheld. The company will need to have sonar equipment that can work at depths of up to 6,000 metres, and navigate holes, trenches and ridges on the seabed."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/missing-malaysian-airlines-flight-mh370-now-australia-outsources-the-daunting-search-for-missing-aircraft-9488603.html
Has anyone alerted CNN of this developing story?
Sorry.....Totally off topic, but I just had to make a post because I can’t stand it any more. I just have to change my tag line before I blow a gasket.
Couldn’t they have called on a CSI team to measure the temperature of the water off the Florida keys, and extrapolate where the plane may have gone down?
How can they know they are searching the correct location before the wreckage is found?
That location in Indian ocean is a long ways from last sighting of the plane in SE-Asia. Why the pilots did not communicate with any air traffic control anywhere in all that time it took for the plane to fly before ditching in waters of Indian Ocean?
Has any one heard of any plane in trouble where pilots kept silent for 2 to 3 hours of flying time?
The whereabouts of Malaysian flight MH360 and the provenance of one “Barack Hussein Obama” remain two of the most perplexing mysteries of our age.
-PJ
The plane is not in the damn water. no way.
Those pilots are reading this in Pakistan and laughing their heads off.
Who is paying for the search of this aircraft?
Anyone looking in Pakistan?
<>At the time MH370 reached this arc, the aircraft is considered to have exhausted its fuel and to have been descending.<>
They just won’t let loose of that “exhausting its fuel” meme will they???
Who are they trying to kid??? Anyone with a calculator and competent in basic math would conclude otherwise. Do they think we are all stupid???
The plane had 7.5 to 8 hours of fuel per MAS — enough to fly 4000+ miles at 500+mph and reach Australia no matter how fast or slow it flew.
The sands of western Australia as the MH370 flies are only 3580 miles. MH370 had enough fuel onboard to hit each of the Inmarsat arcs on schedule and still reach the coast of Australia at Exmouth. Have they checked the sands of western Australia thoroughly enough or are they too busy trying to empty its tank???
But more importantly why are they avoiding the waters south of Indonesia???
The 6th and 7th Inmarsat arcs passes right through Bandung West Java Indonesia and those friendly waters south of there just east of Christmas Island. The waters there are only a 2795 miles as the MH370 flew.
Are they claiming that it didn’t have enough fuel to make it there???
Why do they keep avoiding the obvious place to ditch a plane and keep pushing the exhausting fuel myth???
Sorry I hijacked your thread last night. I never expected so many responses.
The schizophrenic search for MH370 continues:
Most likely crash site of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 ‘is in stretch of Indian Ocean that is yet to be searched’