Posted on 07/21/2016 12:14:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Top searchers at the Dutch company leading the underwater hunt for Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 say they believe the plane may have glided down rather than dived in the final moments, meaning they have been scouring the wrong patch of ocean for two years.
Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew onboard en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. Searchers led by engineering group Fugro (FUGRc.AS) have been combing an area roughly the size of Greece for two years.
That search, over 120,000 square kilometers of the southern Indian Ocean off Western Australia, is expected to end in three months and could be called off after that following a meeting of key countries Malaysia, China and Australia on Friday.
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Doubts that the search teams are looking in the right place will likely fuel calls for all data to be made publicly available so that academics and rival companies can pursue an "open source" solution - a collaborative public answer to the airline industry's greatest mystery.
Fugro's controlled glide hypothesis is also the first time officials have leant some support to contested theories that someone was in control during the flight's final moments.
Since the crash there have been competing theories over whether one, both or no pilots were in control, whether it was hijacked - or whether all aboard perished and the plane was not controlled at all when it hit the water. Adding to the mystery, investigators believe someone may have deliberately switched off the plane's transponder before diverting it thousands of miles.
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Breaking news....still no plane
Bet they have a nice tan,
....and need two more years of funding. The alcohol is running out.
Wackiest theory....Don Lemon on Cnn it went into a black hole.
I still say they were headed to Diego Garcia to crash it on the runway to take out the B-52’s stationed there.
Perhaps there was no MH370. It never existed. And the whole “search” is one big (expensive) hoax.
Back to the simulator!
Parts of the plane have been recovered and verified to have been components of that particular aircraft.
Yeah, it’s down there, somewhere.
Any new updates on Generalissimo Francisco Franco?
Yep, and I think he fooled Rev. Manning with that kooky thing, too.
No, it’s still somewhere, but elswhere too.
Was HE aboard MH370?
If so, and the black hole theory is true, then it is possible he will return not dead.
Until then he’s still dead.
I am SO happy I asked.
Thanks for the replies!
anyone check the hangars at Diego Garcia?
I’ll say that they are looking in the wrong place! That’s because they are not looking on LAND.
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