Posted on 03/12/2014 5:23:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In an age when people assume that any bit of information is just a click away, the thought that a jetliner could simply disappear over the ocean for more than two days is staggering. But Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is hardly the first reminder of how big the seas are, and of how agonizing it can be to try to find something lost in them.
It took two years to find the main wreckage of an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. Closer to the area between Malaysia and Vietnam where Saturday's flight vanished, it took a week for debris from an Indonesian jet to be spotted in 2007. Today, the mostly intact fuselage still sits on the bottom of the ocean.
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Oceanic Flight 815
It took two years to find the main wreckage of an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009.
idiotic comparison...it may have taken two years to find the main wreckage but the tail, bodies and other wreckage was found floating less than 12 hours after the plane stopped communicating...
White Wash...
I don’t understand this....we can track the whereabouts of insects for heaven sakes!
http://www.geospatialworld.net/News/View.aspx?id=27650_Article
Its a lot of ocean.
Stealth cloaking.
Fly it like you stole it!
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