Posted on 04/10/2014 8:46:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Officials leading the search effort for Flight 370 sounded their most optimistic tone to date on Wednesday, suggesting that they hope to locate the wreckage of the missing Malaysian airliner "within a matter of days." Here's why optimism is running so high despite the past month's worth of false starts, red herrings, and dead ends that have spanned a rather massive swath of the globe, via the Washington Post:
Since Saturday, the Australian navy ship Ocean Shield — equipped with a U.S. Navy black-box detection system — has picked up four separate transmissions, the two most recent of which came on Tuesday. The newest signals are significant, because the increased data could allow searchers to more accurately predict the location on the Indian Ocean floor where the sounds are originating.
Australian officials caution that they cannot yet determine whether the sounds are coming from the remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared March 8 with 239 people on board. But Houston said that the signals are a “great lead,” one that has helped to drastically narrow a search field that once spanned much of the world’s largest continent and third-largest ocean. The area now being scoured by search teams is about the size of South Carolina.
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There is no way that 777 hit the water and sank intact. Where’s parts of the wreckage?
Sure, Uh huh, right. Good luck with that. Did you check out that light on Mars?
Wasn’t this a TV show?
The Langoliers?
After 30 days what part of the wreckage do you think would not have sunk???
When there’s real information, I’ll start paying attention to the news about MH370.
Another few days that CNN can continue to milk this tragedy.
A movie: Airport '77
A really, really bad movie...
The plane may very well have been water landed intact and sunk intact.
You should see (The Concorde) Airport 79 then.
“There is no way that 777 hit the water and sank intact. Where’s parts of the wreckage?”
A likely scenario is that it was a ghost plane after a fire onboard. The pilots immediately cut breakers and changed the heading to the nearest airport. They lost consciousness during emergency procedure and kept flying on autopilot until the fuel ran out. The climb to 45k could have been an attempt to put out the fire, an incorrect input into the computer or a malfunction due to fire damage.
Once the engines flame out, the autopilot basically keeps the plane flying slightly above stall speed while gliding down.
It would hit the water pretty much the same way as a water belly landing. If the water at the landing site is reasonably calm, an intact landing is very possible.
The plane would then sit in the water and slowly sink intact (maybe even going under that same night). Nobody would have opened the doors or deployed rafts since everyone was dead. No debris, no SOS, no bodies. Once flooded, the engine computers also stopped pinging.
The plane would be completely undetectable except for the black box.
Had the airplane hit the water intact then there would have been little floating wreckage and a small debris field. A good example of this is the AirEgypt 990 crash. The plane his the water in one piece and the U.S. authorities were there almost immediately but they found a small debris field. The major evidence of the crash was the smell of the jet fuel on the water. The Malaysian flight could have hit in similar circumstances and also left a small debris field which was scattered by the heavy seas and storms that occured between the crash and the beginning of the search in the area.
Thanks for a most interesting and informative post
This is getting as ridiculous as the search for Tsarnaev. Do we have to wait for some guy, up on deck of his yacht for a smoke, to spot the wreckage?
My feelings as well! I do believe the plane landed intact an is sitting on the ocean floor!
Time will tell.
Interesting thought. If the pings are not from the aircraft where do they originate?
What if they find the plane and it is one piece? And they can’t find any bodies? I can’t see a plane flying itself thousands of miles only to blow up in mid air.
That question would argue that if the plane is down where the pings are being heard then it probably is in big pieces. If the plane can fly thousands of miles by itself could it land itself in the water?
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