Posted on 03/19/2014 11:12:04 PM PDT by tcrlaf
A flight crew scouring the southern Indian Ocean for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane tells ABC News that they're getting radar hits of "significant size," indicating something lurking below the water's surface.
ABC News' David Wright, on board the US Navy P-8 Poseidon, said the crew tells him the radar indicates "there is something down there."
It is still too early to tell if the radar hits are related to the missing plane, which was carrying 239 people when it disappeared on March 8.
The P-8 is among four aircraft and one merchant ship heading to a region off the coast of Australia after two objects that may be related to the plane were spotted by satellite, officials said Thursday.
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In this part of the world, it could easily be a floating cargo container that fell off of a ship months ago, as anything else. They find stray containers all the time in this area.
Well if Fox sends Geraldo out there, you know they won’t find anything.
Red October?
Radar? Or sonar?
Gojira?
On any given day, there are up to 2,500 lost containers floating in the oceans, per Sailing World. That is a LOT of cargo.
But not usually in the S Indian Ocean. There isn't much trade between Australia and East Africa.
Radar and “below the waters surface” don’t go together to well...
Yeah...I don’t think ground penetrating radar works in salt water.
Maybe they are misreporting when they say Radar. Could it be the magnetic anomaly detector on the P8 finding something?
Hmm, just read that the Navy scrapped MAD on the P8 to save weight. So scratch that theory.
CNN just now:
A CNN cameraman is on one of the Australian search planes. Only allowed camera on plane no other communication equipment
I hope so, but I doubt it.
that part of the world it could be from WW2.
Doesn’t look like wing in this view. Need a closer look.
Anyone have an idea how this site compares with the scheduled flight path of the plane? Any idea how deep it is?
Tom Hanks raft and Wilson?
Godzirra!
the depth, from Reuters:
“The search area covered an ocean ridge known as Naturalist Plateau, a large sea shelf about 3,500 metres (9,800 feet) deep, Pattiaratchi said. The plateau is about 250 km (150 miles) wide by 400 km (250 miles) long, and the area around it is close to 5,000 metres (16,400 feet) deep. “ http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/20/us-malaysiaairlines-flight-idUSBREA2701720140320
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