MH370: Hopes dashed as orange objects turn out to be fishing equipment

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN) -- Potential leads on the missing Malaysian jetliner keep coming. So do the setbacks and frustrations.

Four orange objects spotted by aircraft searching for the plane in the treacherous Indian Ocean turned out to be fishing equipment, Australian officials said Monday.

Flight Lt. Russell Adams had described the objects found Sunday as the "most promising leads."

But on further analysis, they turned out to be fishing equipment, once again dashing hopes of finding the jetliner that vanished March 8.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/31/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[Lasher]

1. It wasn't hard to anticipate this development.

I've lost track of the times this scenario has played out.

[Agschmid]

2. Thanks for posting.

The media I watch has essentially stopped reporting about this so you've been keeping me updated.

[pangaia]

4. WOW! You should watch CNN. Every time I go to the Y

to work out they have it on.. the entire time I'm there,, with the occasional break for a mudslde.

You haven't missed a thing.

[groundloop]

3. There's gonna' be a lot of fuel wasted chasing down trash

What a strange yet horribly sad situation. The victim's families are surely suffering, I certainly hope something pans out soon.

[jakeXT]

5. "It's like a toilet bowl that swirls but doesn't flush," said Moore.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/ocean-garbage-frustrates-search-flight-370-23124243

[truth2power]

6. It's parked somewhere. n/t

[Baclava]

7. yeah, 15,000 ft down on the ocean bottom

somewhere

[ColesCountyDem]

8. +1 n/t

[SoapBox]

9. + 1

[truth2power]

11. I expected someone to say this when I posted. Nevertheless,

I don't think it's anywhere in the ocean, on the bottom of the ocean, in a trench or on a mountain in the ocean, or floating in pieces all over the ocean.

Hope I've covered all bases, there. But I do appreciate the humor. Thanks.

I have reasons that make sense to me for making inferences, based on the information out there, that it didn't crash in the ocean.

I could be wrong, but so far, no one else has a definitive answer, either.

YMMV.

[IDemo]

12. It's in the ocean

This article explains how that was determined (you need to read into the second page to get the full details):

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/03/evidence_that_flight_mh370_crashed_in_the_southern_ocean_doppler_effect.html

[Baclava]

15. yep - looks wet to me

[SoCalMusicLover]

13. You & I Are In The Minority

But I agree, there should be SOME evidence that it went down in the ocean. A single piece of evidence?

The more they try to explain why it went down, and the more they keep changing their story about WHERE it went down, makes me think even more that something is not right here.

Again, if the plane went down, where is that single piece of debris? It did not ALL float away 1,000's of miles from where they're searching. Explain how an entire giant plane, and everything inside of it, just vanished in the ocean.

[Blue_Tires]

16. For starters...

1. The plane will break up on impact with the ocean -- The faster it was moving, the smaller the pieces will be, generally speaking

2. Search parties already started 2 weeks late so the debris has been widely dispersed

3. There is already a lot of un-related garbage and debris compounding the search

4. There is NO place for the aircraft to theoretically "park" where it wouldn't have been discovered or found by now...

5. There is no terrorist motive whatsoever to "steal" a T7 with 250+ people only to hide it somewhere...Nevermind the fact that the plane would be *instantly* spotted the moment it took off again...

[IDemo]

10. There is zero to be gained by continuing the hunt for debris

It has been conclusively established that the craft went down within a range of the southern Indian Ocean. It is not parked on a carefully camouflaged airstrip anywhere. The currents will have moved any such debris still afloat that may be located hundreds and possibly thousands of miles from the location of the main wreckage, which is lying miles deep.

Unless the latest effort to locate the blackbox pings succeeds, they are not going to find anything sooner than they have Amelia Earhart.

[LuckyLib]

14. ^This.^