Posted on 03/23/2014 5:24:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Investigators have made the first visual sighting of objects that could be linked to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on Saturday, but officials warned it was "too early" to be sure the sighting was linked to the missing aircraft.
Australian officials said a wooden cargo pallet, along with its belts or straps, was spotted Saturday in a remote stretch of the southern Indian Ocean that has become the focus of an intense international search in recent days.
Wooden pallets are quite common in aircraft and ship cargo holds.
"Part of the description was a wooden pallet and a number of other items which were nondescript around it and some belts of some different colours," AMSA aircraft operations coordinator Mike Barton said.
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Wooden pallets are also quite common on every ship in the world.
Have seen this portrayed this way a couple places, but, when I watched the actual clip from the news conference yesterday evening on NBC Nightly News the person speaking characterized what was observed as random ocean debris that could have come from anywhere or anything.
Ocean debris more than likely. Dead whale caught in a net, maybe a couple of shipping containers.
If its aircraft debris I am not buying its from the 777.
and all over my back yard now that the fire wood is almost gone
It’s about 8:30pm over there and weather is poor. I anxiously await watercraft access to these debris sitings. I’ll remain hopeful, but there is no guarantee any of this debris is from the plane.
“Wooden pallets are also quite common on every ship in the world.”
Yes they are. Could be anything. Even when we had appreciable floating debris pinpointing the general impact point of AF447 it took two years to find the plane itself. We may well be talking about this thing for years to come.
heck out the satellite weather link. Not as “poor” as I would have expected. There is a rather weak front along the general area but not my idea of “poor” weather. This link allows you to zoom into any place on the earth and see the cloud/weather movements.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/world/satellite
They found debris very quickly from the AF jet, specifically the tail section. The challenge here is not to find the plane, but just to find ANY debris. 4 days of having a “clue” from two separate coordinates by satellite of what looks to be the same object has still netted no, zip, zero results even when they knew where to look for this “debris”.
It’s been two weeks and some since it disappeared. They were relatively “Johnny on the spot” with 447 and had sightings in a couple of days. There won’t be any obvious floating debris fields from it now if there ever were any to begin with. Whatever was left has been dispersed and sent in any number of directions or succumbed to the waves.
That about covers it.
And soon to be a major part of skyscrapers.....
It will really complicate things when we can't tell flotsam from jetsam from skyscraper debris...
It’s now been two weeks since FL-370 disappeared. Wind and ocean currents could easily have moved debris +1,000 miles from the actual crash site.
Have not seen this asked: There is supposed to be an emergency transmitter that automatically begins to ping upon impact. I believe it transmits to satellite if it’s on the surface.
If it sank, can the pings be picked up by sonar? Does the sonar array have to be on a ship or can they drop a buoy?
Our submarines and sonar buoys can hear a mouse fart for miles, point it’s location and tell you what it had to eat.
I ave one in my garage.
Would it be safe to assume that we have had our ears on in that locale?
The P3’s and P8 that went out there the first day dropped a bunch. Some “ace” AP reporter made a big splash by saying the crew of the P8 said they had something from the pings but later that assertion was rained on heavily as he just heard it wrong. They were hoping they would get something, not that they did.
Ironically, we have not heard from the “ace” reporter again as I’m sure they made sure his ticket to ride was no longer valid.
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