Posted on 03/27/2014 4:47:36 AM PDT by bryan999
PERTH, Australia (CBS News/CBSDC/AP) — A Thai satellite has detected about 300 objects near the search area for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner, officials in Bangkok said Thursday, but there was little chance of getting human eyes across those items in the near term as weather again forced officials to halt the search for debris by air.
Anond Snidvongs, director of Thailand’s space technology development agency, said Thursday the images showed “300 objects of various sizes” in the southern Indian Ocean about 1,675 miles southwest of Perth. He said the images were taken by the Thaichote satellite on Monday, took two days to process and were relayed to Malaysian authorities on Wednesday.
Anond said the objects were about 125 miles from the area where a French satellite on Sunday spotted 122 objects. It remains uncertain whether any of the objects seen by satellites to date were from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared March 8 with 239 people aboard.
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At a news conference in Kuala Lumpur, Hishammuddin said some of the objects seen by the French satellite “appeared to be bright, possibly indicating solid materials.”
But experts cautioned that the area’s frequent high seas and bad weather and its distance from land complicated an already-trying search.
In addition, one expert told CBS News it was “highly likely that it is trash and not evidence of the plane.”
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That looks heavy.
Thailand is still experimenting with hang glider technology.
What hasn’t been elaborated with any significance is a vague reference to ‘indication’ prompting the USN to move the USS Kidd to the area.
With either a ‘shadowing’ or ‘transponder-reprogramming’, I think that’s plausible (the northern route), absent more conspiracy-related government involvement of multiple countries to quash radar data that would have certainly detected an overland course through Indian airspace.
This is the first map I’ve been able to find plotting the ‘7 pings’. Why? (rhetorical)
Again, I’m just hyper-critical of the manner of data-release (the word ‘data’ really can’t be used with a straight-face in this respect, so call it a metaphor) to the public.
I think it’s most probable that a US submarine detected an event that prompted extrapolation of very, very inaccurate satellite data and permitted them to overlay the data in a manner that fit the submarine’s data.
In that respect, the quasi-haphazard manner of data release is explained in that the secrecy of US sub operations is maintained.
I just think they’re lucky to have found any debris at all given the wind & ocean currents, anywhere near where they indicated, unless they’re looking exactly where ‘somebody’ told them to look, and it had little-to-nothing to do with the ‘satellite data’ (it was just a convenient explanation and a pretty graphic).
How plausible is IRAN or Pakistan bribing Prime Minister of Malaysia
Perdana Menteri, to lie to us and to distract us from where MH370 really is?
Not plausible at all. At this point he would bribe them to take the plane if he could.
A hijacked plane sitting on a tarmack in IRAN or Pakistan is far preferable to a Malaysian pilot killing 239 in a kamikaze attack on some sharks in the Indian Ocean.
Instead the Malaysian PM is being dragged kicking and screaming by the incontrovertible facts down into the waters off Australia by his own suicidal pilot.
there’s too much that doesn’t add up. The partial ping that shouldn’t have happened for example. Until we see wreckage, I don’t see how we can let our guards down, not after 9-11. You’re welcome to your theory but until I see wreckage, I’m erring on the side on national security.
Things under water are hard to find. It took 6 weeks to find the Challenger cockpit and it was filmed crashing. We still have an hour long window and a couple hundred mile circle for this plane, it will probably never be found.
If they were going to spend money to bribe somebody to hide their secret hijacking they probably could have spent less money to buy a plane. Really, buying jets isn’t that difficult, and anybody that wants one in secret needs nothing more elaborate than a successful actor (ie somebody with enough money to at least look like they want to buy a plane) to “buy” it and just hand it over. Of all the ways to secretly acquire a plane hijacking one and making it look like a crash is the worst.
I can barely force myself to watch TV news anymore, if that's what you meant.
It's either Socialist talking points or hours of coverage for 30 second news items.
The 72 hours of non-stop Boston Marathon bombing coverage was the end for me.
The Indian Ocean video I watched was about 5 minutes long and completely awesome.
Buy it through a shell, repaint the numbers, it’s not traceable anymore, especially not if the plan is to blow it up. Buy it from a boneyard that’s not in America so the paperwork is even more obscure to start with. Secret planes are easy to get for anybody with the cash.
Especially with a bunch of people on board. It’s quite obvious something was done. And the action ends up real slow.
This is why I say such a nefarious plan is lame.
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