Interesting tidbit from today’s Reuters:
” the Bluefin-21’s search area had been reduce based on further analysis of the initial black box signals. It said a U.S. Navy warning that the Bluefin-21’s examination may take two months was now incorrect and the drone was focusing on a “reduced and more focused underwater search area” without specifying the size.”
Updates here:
Unless they get lucky this search area will take a year and a half.
Meanwhile back at home:
(CNN) — Families of some of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 passengers released a list of questions Wednesday that they said authorities have so far not answered.
Many of the 26 questions focus on technical issues involving emergency locator transmitters, or ELTs, and “black boxes.” With an apparent in-depth understanding of how these work, the families ask about the specific technology on the missing plane....
The families’ final seven questions involve “protocol,” including this: What did Malaysia Airlines do when the flight went missing?
The families also ask whether search and rescue teams have final results from searched areas, and whether the Malaysian government could specify the rights of family members “to know the facts of cases or the details of an incident.”
The questions were posted on the social media site Weibo by a committee in Beijing representing some of the passengers’ families. Some of the “questions” are requests that evidence be shared with them, including the flight’s logbook and air traffic control audio.
http://kplr11.com/2014/04/16/mh370-passengers-families-release-unanswered-questions/