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MH370 search team raises prospect plane could lie elsewhere
reuters.com ^ | Thu Jul 21, 2016 9:53am EDT | Jonathan Barrett and Swati Pandey

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand
KEYWORDS: australia; aviation; china; chinashotitdown; fugro; malaysia; mh370; missing; oilrigworker
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1 posted on 07/21/2016 12:14:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Breaking news....still no plane


2 posted on 07/21/2016 12:17:05 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

Bet they have a nice tan,
....and need two more years of funding. The alcohol is running out.


3 posted on 07/21/2016 12:20:26 PM PDT by Quick Shot
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To: BenLurkin

Wackiest theory....Don Lemon on Cnn it went into a black hole.


4 posted on 07/21/2016 12:21:58 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~GOPe=Vichy Republican swine/Lock Her Up!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

Supernatural forces or black holes if you ask Don Lemon.

5 posted on 07/21/2016 12:22:11 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: BenLurkin

I still say they were headed to Diego Garcia to crash it on the runway to take out the B-52’s stationed there.


6 posted on 07/21/2016 12:22:29 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Nifster

Perhaps there was no MH370. It never existed. And the whole “search” is one big (expensive) hoax.


7 posted on 07/21/2016 12:24:36 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Snickering Hound

Back to the simulator!


8 posted on 07/21/2016 12:25:17 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: BenLurkin
plane could lie elsewhere
Well, if they didn't find it somewhere, then I guess it has to be elsewhere.
9 posted on 07/21/2016 12:25:41 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: sagar

Parts of the plane have been recovered and verified to have been components of that particular aircraft.

Yeah, it’s down there, somewhere.


10 posted on 07/21/2016 12:29:02 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Nifster

Any new updates on Generalissimo Francisco Franco?


11 posted on 07/21/2016 12:38:18 PM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: ColdOne

Yep, and I think he fooled Rev. Manning with that kooky thing, too.


12 posted on 07/21/2016 12:42:37 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: oh8eleven

No, it’s still somewhere, but elswhere too.


13 posted on 07/21/2016 12:52:13 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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MH370 search team raises prospect plane could lie elsewhere (Ver. 9.4)
14 posted on 07/21/2016 12:53:47 PM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: BBB333

Was HE aboard MH370?


15 posted on 07/21/2016 12:57:15 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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To: BBB333

If so, and the black hole theory is true, then it is possible he will return not dead.

Until then he’s still dead.


16 posted on 07/21/2016 12:58:12 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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I am SO happy I asked.

Thanks for the replies!


17 posted on 07/21/2016 1:00:42 PM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: BenLurkin

anyone check the hangars at Diego Garcia?


18 posted on 07/21/2016 1:39:12 PM PDT by thoughtomator ("... and if a million more agree, there ain't no Great Society")
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To: 1rudeboy
Which begs the question ...
19 posted on 07/21/2016 1:39:34 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: BenLurkin

I’ll say that they are looking in the wrong place! That’s because they are not looking on LAND.


20 posted on 07/21/2016 1:51:33 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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