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Major Breakthrough In Finding Malaysia Airlines MH370
Forbes ^ | 04/09/2014 | Bruce Dorminey

Posted on 04/09/2014 8:08:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

In a major break in a race against time, searchers for MH370 have detected two new electronic pings — both received in the last 24 hours — from what they hope is the missing Boeing BA +1.23% 777-200’s black box flight data recorders. The news was announced at a Wednesday morning press conference in Perth.

“I’m now optimistic that we will find the aircraft; what’s left of the aircraft,” Retired RAAF Air Marshal Angus Houston told reporters.

Just days before batteries on the black box pingers are expected to expire, Australian authorities leading the southern Indian Ocean search for the Malaysia Airlines 777 confirmed that Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield had, in fact, detected two new pings in the current northernmost search area; or some 1500 km (930 mi) northwest of Perth.

The U.S. Navy’s TPL-25 Towed Pinger Locator sonar, now deployed on the Ocean Shield, has been operating 24 hours a day at depths of up to 9000 ft. Thus far, it has detected four separate ping events; two on April 5th and two on April 8th local time.

The most recent signals detected by the ocean shield were consistent with what you would expect from a black box held for a little more than five minutes, Seventh Fleet spokesman Cmdr. William Marks told Forbes.com.

“It’s a continuous pinging, with pings at one-second intervals,” Marks said by phone from aboard the U.S.S. Blue Ridge. “Our sonar can pick it, but it’s not audible to the human ear.”

Marks says the pingers attached to the two separate black boxes — a cockpit voice recorder and a separate flight data recorder — each give out separate continuous signals until they run out of battery life, which by some estimates could be any day now.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 777; australia; heyrocky; malaysia; malaysiaairlines; mh370; thistimeforsure
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To: SeekAndFind

21 posted on 04/09/2014 8:49:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("A man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; a man who respects it has earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Brits have a sub in the area..which is also a great platform to detect the pincers, but it is unlikely that they would announce it’s results. My guess is that the US also has a sub in the area, but won’t say anything about it’s location or results. Both the subs need to be clear of the area where they are towing the other locators. I think we should keep our sub locations secret..we don’t want the Chicoms knowing if they really did hear or ping them.


22 posted on 04/09/2014 9:29:30 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: mountainlion

What if some group hijacked the plane and had some black boxes they dumped into the ocean to monitor the search techniques?

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Um, then they won’t find the 370’s black boxes there, I guess.


23 posted on 04/09/2014 9:38:53 AM PDT by dmz
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To: mountainlion
What if some group hijacked the plane and had some black boxes they dumped into the ocean to monitor the search techniques?

Have we also considered that the plane might have flown into a black hole and is now somewhere else in the universe? Wait...

24 posted on 04/09/2014 9:46:13 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (My whimsical litany of satyric prose and avarice pontification of wisdom demonstrates my concinnity.)
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To: Tenacious 1

Have we also considered that the plane might have flown into a black hole and is now somewhere else in the universe? Wait...

That has not been disproved either.


25 posted on 04/09/2014 9:47:22 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Meanwhile on an airstrip in Pakistan/Iran or Diego Garcia. :-)


26 posted on 04/09/2014 9:49:41 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Can’t be in Diego Garcia, The United States Navy operates Naval Support Facility (NSF) Diego Garcia, a large naval ship and submarine support base there.


27 posted on 04/09/2014 9:55:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

generally go with the simplest explanation. The pilot was upset with his government about the jailed opposition leader, apparently having marital issues and probably decided to hijack the plane and ditch it in the Indian ocean so nobody would find it and it would be a great embarrassment to his government. If that was his goal, mission accomplished. It all seems to fit, he turned off the transponder at just the right time, turned off the acars system, flew around Indonesia and ran into a deep part of the ocean and ditched the plane. He made one mistake though, the acars system was only partially disabled and they got a periodic ping from it that allowed them to figure out where it went. If it wasn’t for that ping there would be no hope of ever finding that plane which was the hijackers obvious intent.


28 posted on 04/09/2014 9:57:59 AM PDT by JohnInSoCal
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To: SeekAndFind

How would one go about extracting a Black Box from an aircraft in water over 10,000 ft?


29 posted on 04/09/2014 9:59:22 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Puppage

They were looking in the phone book at the time.


30 posted on 04/09/2014 10:00:11 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: TexasCajun
How would one go about extracting a Black Box from an aircraft in water over 10,000 ft?

Very carefully?

With extreme difficulty?

Lots of answers to that one.

8^)

5.56mm

31 posted on 04/09/2014 10:02:10 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes I know.


32 posted on 04/09/2014 10:05:16 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: bigbob

Smart enough to realize that if they want a plane they can buy a plane and not have to deal with all the hassles of hijacking it.


33 posted on 04/09/2014 10:09:32 AM PDT by discostu (Call it collect, call it direct, call it TODAY!)
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To: TexasCajun
How would one go about extracting a Black Box from an aircraft in water over 10,000 ft?

You must be assuming that that is the only black box in the world. Black boxes do not carry a signal identifying the aircraft they are on. Just "ping" to signal where I am and is very limited as to distance.

34 posted on 04/09/2014 10:14:59 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: mountainlion

Exactly!


35 posted on 04/09/2014 10:30:07 AM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: mountainlion
You'll need some of this for your hat


36 posted on 04/09/2014 10:30:33 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: DoodleDawg

You prove his point.


37 posted on 04/09/2014 10:32:23 AM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: from occupied ga

I guess I need to use the /s more.


38 posted on 04/09/2014 10:33:20 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Really? Doesn’t a fake POTUS Iranian sympathizer run the US Navy too?


39 posted on 04/09/2014 10:35:20 AM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: TexasCajun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUV_ABYSS

A similar autonomous submersible retrieved the French Flight 447 black boxes.


40 posted on 04/09/2014 10:36:02 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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