Posted on 04/05/2014 10:42:27 PM PDT by Kartographer
The Australian military vessel Ocean Shield, towing a sophisticated pinger locator lent by the U.S. Navy, reported Sunday morning that it had picked up a signal, said Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, who is coordinating search efforts from Perth, Australia.
That report comes on the heels of a Saturday night report from the Chinese ship Haixun 01 that it had detected pulse signals both Friday and Saturday at 37.5 mHz, the same frequency used by an airplane flight data recorder.
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I heard a ping in my house this morning
I conspiracy theories and a lot of them end up being true. But in this case? No. Every hypothesis has already been considered, and what we need are facts and better data.
The real scandal is that a huge plane with hundreds of people on it, on a regularly scheduled flight, can be lost for so long. Meanwhile, big brother is probably reading this email.
I was just flying yesterday with my Dad in his little plane. He has a device called Find Me Spot that’s the size of a pager that sits on the visor and pings a satellite every ten minutes with current location. The information is captured and stored so family members or emergency contacts can easily follow the path of the plane. When we landed he hits the OK button and it sends a final ping and turns off.
This device costs about $100 and a subscription to the database costs $49 per year.
Please see my post 43. The Find Me Spot device has it’s own power source, but could easily be provided with an external source of power. If that source is killed, the internal battery can operate for days.
You don’t need to reinvent the black box. You just need archived position data updated every ten minutes by satellite.
The disinformation campaign continues. :-)
It’s FR in an election year - everything is a Muslim Democrat Terrorist conspiracy to take down the United States and start a One World government.
off years a better, but some of the speculation I’ve seen on FR is so ridiculous I literally laughed at the absurdity.
Ping!
In the event of total electrical failure, a small prop that works off ram air will start to spin, providing minimal emergency backup power to the most critical systems, like communications and life support (if it could be called that), maybe some hydraulics.
You're entitled to, but I'll stand by it.
Your loyalty to your government & friends/services is admirable (/s in regards to 'government'), but that statement does no favors to your reply to the comment that was obviously directed at the Malays, not the Aussies
My point is that the type of coverup that certain people are talking about would have to be a multinational effort - the Malaysians simply could not do it alone. They would require the complicity of, at this point, the Australian, New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom, and Chinese governments at a minimum, just for the aspect involving the Southern Indian Ocean search. They'd need a lot more countries involved for other aspects of it.
I could believe that one nation alone might try this - but I can't think of a scenario that would have all these nations doing it - as I said to begin with - "Give us a credible reason why they'd do this."
I cannot for the life of me think of one.
I especially can't think of one that would involve Australia cooperating with Chinese military vessels in a patch of water we regard as our own backyard that isn't because they are participating in a genuine search and rescue (not that rescue is an option anymore but finding out what happened might still help some families). That type of humanitarian mission is the only thing I can see us working with the Chinese on in this part of the world. We couldn't stop them sailing there - it's international waters but we would not be happy about it and would not be cooperating with it.
I’m not going to debate this...again.
The fact is that the whole thing is hinky from the get-go courtesy of the Malays and even the satellite data has not been forthcoming. If I were a surviving relative I’d be pissed as hell.
I had already swore off paying any mind to this ‘tragedy’ once but got sucked into it due to the deja vu I was having (relative to a certain episode in 1996 off Long Island) and my last post mocking the new/3rd flight track graphic will more than likely be my last as the whole thing stinks despite efforts to paint it with a white brush and force-fit all the jaggedly-cut pieces issued by the Malays.
the 'pinger' on the engines is self-contained, external to the cabin and powered by the engines. Find a way to slap a gps on it, and voila'. Easy peasy.
How about some type of sonar buoy designed to break free from a sinking plane. At least that could give a surface point for reference. Wouldn’t think it would have to be very big and mounted somewhere under the wing.
Ok, that is a sick joke.
But I laughed.
Great post.
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