Missing MAS flight: Debris near Tho Chu Island not from MH370, says DCA

TheStar (Malaysia) ^ | 03/09/2014 | Nadirah Rodzi

[FAA]

Hmmmmm......

This is one strange search so far.

[publius911]

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[CivilWarBrewing]

It took two years to find the Air France jet (pilot error due to external sensors corrupted by ice). I think this is shallower water though.

[tcrlaf]

No ELT (unless it was purposely disabled) likely means it is down over water. The question is where, and when.

[diogenes ghost]

"It took two years to find the Air France jet..."

Apples and oranges.

Finding floating surface debris and locating the wreckage at depth are two separate and disparate events.

[BuckeyeTexan]

I think this is shallower water though.

Yes, if it went down in the Gulf of Thailand, which is 250 feet at its deepest. It's unlikely that it went down in the Gulf of Tonkin, but for comparison that is 985 feet at its deepest. It's also unlikely that it went down in the South China Sea since it dropped off radar one minute before it entered Vietnamese airspace, but the South China Sea has an average depth of 4000 feet and maximum depth of 18,264 feet.

Air France 447 went down in the mid-Atlantic in area that ranges from 2600 feet to 14,250 feet. Its wreckage was found at approximately 13,200 feet.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Finding floating surface debris and locating the wreckage at depth are two separate and disparate events.

Agreed. They found surface debris from Air France 447 five days after it went down.

[CivilWarBrewing]

No surface debris would point towards the aircraft having gone in largely intact, with an enclosed fuselage. An explosion in flight would have to be pretty significant to destroy seat cushions or other items that would float.

Is this aircraft largely composite materials that would blow to bits unlike a metal skinned aircraft? So many questions!

[berdie]

later

[BuckeyeTexan]

We don’t know that there isn’t surface debris.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BuckeyeTexan.

[VerySadAmerican]

I’m starting to think maybe aliens took it.

[Izzy Dunne]

[txhurl]

There are satellites that saw it happen, and if nobody’s talking about those sat pics it can mean it landed (most likely, hijacked) or it was blown apart (less likely, since weather geeks would have pinpointed the explosion).

To me, this is a political problem, not a aircraft failure problem.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Anyone care to investigate possibilities on this pic?

[xone]

Looks like a fire on the ground.

[BuckeyeTexan]

That was my thought also.

[sunrise_sunset]

They found floating wreckage of Air France almost immediately as they got to location. The delay was getting to the middle of the Atlantic.

[sunrise_sunset]

Of course that is worth looking into.