Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

(28-03-2014 23:35 )southlondonphil Wrote:  The Australian search team have discounted ALL of the satellite sightings of supposed debris and have said that the search will now be concentrated solely on the new area.

Discounted ALL of the satellite sightings? I hope this isn't turning into some kind of wild goose chase.

(28-03-2014 23:01 )barracuda Wrote:  If it wasn't for the evidence of the satellite pings

I've never understood why if someone had turned the ACARS off it would have still have responded to the pings from the satellite. I mean surely it would have been turned off fully, not left half operating so it was still receiving and capable of transmitting? If the pilots or anyone else on the plane had the ability to turn the ACARS off surely that would mean the ability to turn the power off?

(29-03-2014 02:11 )archibald cockfoster Wrote:  I hope this isn't turning into some kind of wild goose chase.

It doesn't look like it. Of the 10 search planes covering the new search area 5 of them have already spotted objects floating in the water.

(29-03-2014 02:41 )elgar1uk Wrote:  

(28-03-2014 23:01 )barracuda Wrote:  If it wasn't for the evidence of the satellite pings

I've never understood why if someone had turned the ACARS off it would have still have responded to the pings from the satellite. I mean surely it would have been turned off fully, not left half operating so it was still receiving and capable of transmitting? If the pilots or anyone else on the plane had the ability to turn the ACARS off surely that would mean the ability to turn the power off?

Because inmarsat is just a communications system to make calls and provide data services on flghts. it isnt a designated saftey system. many planes carry it just some airlines dont pay. they couldnt turn it off because they wouldnt know what power circuits it is on so would have to have turned everything off

(29-03-2014 05:24 )bigglesworth Wrote:  5 of them have already spotted objects floating in the water.

So much fuss is made about even the slightest possible piece of debris, yet it's hard to see how finding a piece of the plane floating in the ocean will reveal anything useful about something that happened 3 weeks ago, other than as a drift marker to allow some reasonable guesses at tracking back to the crash site.

At the moment there still isn't any concrete proof of the whereabouts of the plane. Finding anything confirmed to be from MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean, however small, will show that it definitely did crash in that vicinity and will therefore nullify alternative theories that have been proposed.

I don't know if finding debris will nullify alternative theories of the plane's fate, because it's always possible for people to claim that any wreckage found in the Indian Ocean was dumped there to make it look as though that's where the plane went down.

(27-03-2014 12:24 )whizzer Wrote:  Can any of these objects seen on satellite be pieces of ice which have drifted north from Antartica?

No the estimated crash site is almost at the same latitude as Australia, so far too warm for ice. Anything from Antartica would have melted before it got there. I think many of the satellite images actually show the crests of waves. I posted a picture before but here is another one.



From a satellite this would probably look like a debris field, but at sea level you can see it's nothing more than waves.

(25-03-2014 21:04 )Charlemagne Wrote:  So the flight left Malaysian air space. Then it turned to the left and then flew down the entire coast of Malaysia and then into the Indian Ocean... And their military didn't do anything

The plane must have been picked up by their radar. Intercepting aircraft should have been scrambled before it reach the Petronas Towers.

This is a good point, why the Malaysian military didn't react to an unidentified plane in Malaysian airspace, but an equally good point is why the Australian military didn't react to an unidentified plane in Australian airspace. If the satellite ping data is correct it means the plane flew for over 500 miles within Australia's radar reach.

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