Search resumes for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

[Baclava]

The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 entered a new phase Monday with the resumption of underwater search efforts for the aircraft that mysteriously vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing six months ago.

Until now experts had been concentrating on mapping the seabed in the southern Indian Ocean search zone where the plane carrying 239 people is believed to have crashed.

The Malaysian-contracted GO Phoenix vessel, the first of three search ships, has now arrived in the area and is scanning the ocean floor for the jet, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said.

Two additional vessels – equipped with sonar, video cameras and jet-fuel sensors – will join the GO Phoenix in coming weeks. Each ship will be staffed with 25-35 people working around the clock exploring the 23,000 square-mile search area.

The Ocean’s average depth of 2.5 miles has complicated recovery efforts.




http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/10/6/mh370-search-renews.html

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just in case anyone was wondering

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Good, that will give CNN something to gnaw on besides Ebola.

[Baclava]

2. ha, good luck with that

It'll only be news if they find something

[get the red out]

3. Bottom of the ocean

I doubt they will find anything. Just my guess.

[former9thward]

12. The mystery is why they have found no wreckage, none.

Most parts of a jet float. They have found nothing. Aviation experts can't explain it.

[get the red out]

13. If it didn't all sink

wouldn't some kind of wreckage eventually wash up on land somewhere? Or in an area where someone would see it, shipping lane or something?

[former9thward]

17. Yes, that's the point.

And that is why experts have been confounded by it. There is no way the whole plane could have just sunk. Hitting the ocean surface is like hitting concrete for a plane and it would have broke up into many parts -- and that is not counting all the baggage and bodies.

[FLPanhandle]

18. Not if someone landed it on the water.

Sort of like the Hudson River landing.

[former9thward]

20. The Hudson River landing happened in the middle of the day.

This happened in the middle of the night. The sea would be be nothing but black with no points of reference. Hudson occurred from a very low altitude and low speed. Nothing comparable. And if some did land it that way then where is the plane? And why would they do it?

[get the red out]

22. Thanks

I didn't realize it couldn't have just all sunk, even after breaking apart.

[Logical]

25. That is the point that I'm really confused about........

How is there no debris at all? A seat cushion, plastic panel, something. Really weird.

[former9thward]

27. Yes, to date the strangest disappearance I have heard about.

[Reter]

30. Which is exactly why it may not have landed in the ocean

But no one in government or media will dare say it. Don't want to be labeled a kook or a woo.

[former9thward]

34. Right you are.

[Avalux]

19. I love your choice of the word "gnaw".

[RobinA]

4. Imagining

a body of water 2.5 miles deep gives me the chills.

[Baclava]

8. yep, just imagining the Bahamas as mountaintops with edges that plunge miles deep

just a few yards offshore

all those miles of inky darkness a few steps beyond your toes......... falling falling

Grand Bahama Bank, which rises more than 2 miles high from the Atlantic abyssal plain.
The Bahamas Islands are but the tips of these massive structures

[uppityperson]

5. Thank you for the update, I hope they find something.

[EX500rider]

6. I wonder if they will ever look at the possible northern route again?

My understanding was that based on the time intervals in the satellite handshakes they established where on a either north or south arc that the plane was on.

They discounted the northern route and decided it went south.

The longer it goes with out finding it down there makes me think they need to look north again....it would have made it all the way to central asia, either one of the eastern Stans or western China. If it flew very low and kept to sparsely populated area and valleys they may have avoided detection.

Plus it made more sense to me, it left them with a place to land the plane. If they just wanted to fly it into the ocean no need to go 7 hours south to do that.

[DebJ]

7. I really do not understand the money and effort being spent on this. Planes do disappear.

There won't be closure as long as the families are waiting and waiting through endless, fruitless searches.

What will change if they find the plane?

With so many pressing problems in the world, shouldn't this money and manpower be devoted to somewhere productive?

[Little Star]

9. They most always try to recover downed planes....

They need to study the black boxes and the plane itself to see what went wrong. It's part of trying to keep us safe and correct anything that may have caused the plane to go down.

[DebJ]

14. So will they eventually stop? Or keep looking for eternity? n/t

[JI7]

15. it hasn't even been a year

[Blue_Tires]

10. They still need to know why

if nothing else, then just to explain the course deviation and transponder shutoff...

and FWIW it has been a long time since a large commercial aircraft disappeared without a trace...Off the top of my head, I can't think of any since the 1970s...

[Raine]

16. Finding it and knowing what happened can help tp prevent tragedies like this

from happening to future flights ... that's one reason for finding it.

[Baclava]

23. That's why they have the NTSB crash investigations, you know

To find out why planes crash.


or would you rather fly by zeppelin?

[Little Star]

11. Thanks! Call me crazy but I want to know what happened.

[Baclava]

24. You're welcome. I want to know too. It's Technology vs. The Ocean

We might not win, but we'll scour the seafloor 12,000 ft down in the abyss like nobody's business.














Robot Sea Drones to the rescue!

[Reter]

29. How do you know it's "The Ocean"?

Maybe that's the problem. The media and scientists and government officials are all just assuming it's the ocean.

[Baclava]

32. I have ruled out time travel and UFO abductions for lack of evidence for the time being

You have further evidence you'd like to share?

[Reter]

35. I have the same evidence as everyone else, none

Perhaps a remote tiny island is where it crashed? That would explain no floating debris.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

26. That would be nice, but I doubt they will find out anything except the location of the wreck

if they are lucky.

[KamaAina]

21. I doubt they'll get very far with that approach

mine only has my contact info and employment and education history.

[Reter]

28. It's time to think outside the box

They seem near 100% certain it crashed into the ocean, despite no hard evidence. Why won't the mainstream media talk about other possibilities? Are they afraid of looking like "kooks" or is it some more sinister reason?

[cwydro]

31. Well, waiting for the thread that says

ISIS has it. And they will fill it up with Biohazard waste from Ebola patients...and crash it in some populated area!

I've seen just about everything else postulated here lol.

[Baclava]

33. I hope you're not laughing at my informative thread

I can't help it attracts the loonies