Satellite Detects About 300 Objects ... ‘Highly Likely That It Is Trash’

CBS DC ^

[bryan999]

PERTH, Australia (CBS News/CBSDC/AP) — A Thai satellite has detected about 300 objects near the search area for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner, officials in Bangkok said Thursday, but there was little chance of getting human eyes across those items in the near term as weather again forced officials to halt the search for debris by air.

Anond Snidvongs, director of Thailand’s space technology development agency, said Thursday the images showed “300 objects of various sizes” in the southern Indian Ocean about 1,675 miles southwest of Perth. He said the images were taken by the Thaichote satellite on Monday, took two days to process and were relayed to Malaysian authorities on Wednesday.

Anond said the objects were about 125 miles from the area where a French satellite on Sunday spotted 122 objects. It remains uncertain whether any of the objects seen by satellites to date were from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared March 8 with 239 people aboard.

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At a news conference in Kuala Lumpur, Hishammuddin said some of the objects seen by the French satellite “appeared to be bright, possibly indicating solid materials.”

But experts cautioned that the area’s frequent high seas and bad weather and its distance from land complicated an already-trying search.

In addition, one expert told CBS News it was “highly likely that it is trash and not evidence of the plane.”

[PIF]

There are 20,000,000 tons of trash floating in the Indian Ocean ... pick your spot.

[Carriage Hill]

Bwahahahahahaha!

[the OlLine Rebel]

The problem with this conspiracy theory is that it is totally lame. Unless the “perps” screwed up so much that we are aware of all this (which we are), we are now aware they may do something. Actually, I don’t know how we wouldn’t be aware - after all, some 240 people are missing and their loved-ones know it. It’s another thing altogether if pilots had “ferried” an empty plane to nowhere. Less noticeable except to the airline.

All it does is potentially put more gov’s on high alert and more likely to thwart any terror plots, especially from the sky or relating to it.

Moslems really aren’t that stupid.

While I think there is a possibility this was intentional - maybe even an intention gone “bad” (i.e., failure to connect, a`la poor execution or United 93) - I still lean heavily to big accident.

[Carriage Hill]

A Katrina-NOLA “leftover”? LOL.

[PghBaldy]

yep. I’ve been leaning toward a suicide with hope of getting insurance payout, but the insurance was not necessarily the main reason.

[Uncle Chip]

It sure does make identification of the “mystery woman” and what that final phone call was all about rather important.

[woodbutcher1963]

Be careful, the contents of that cup are HOT!

[logi_cal869]

If you look at this story, and this map

Coupled with the comments:

Officials are emphasizing caution but several factors explain the intense effort that has been mustered around this lead.

Australia took charge of the search in the Southern Indian Ocean earlier this week based on a potential track for the plane along what has been called the “southern corridor”. This flight path is based on a series of rudimentary satellite communications from the Boeing 777 over the course of seven hours after it last contacted air traffic control, and the distance it could have flown in that time.

The site of the debris field is almost exactly at the end point of this southern corridor. This is, the hypothesis goes, the point at which the plane would have run out of fuel and crashed.

...and consider the "7 hourly pings"...

...and also consider that the prevailing winds/currents are pushing anything TOWARDS Australia...

With the margin of error plotted on that map between the 'predicted flight path arc' and the plotted 'ping locations'...

Either the data being spoon-fed to the public is egregiously in error (intentional or not) or they're damned lucky they found anything at all.

[Uncle Chip]

Either the data being spoon-fed to the public is egregiously in error

There was a second flight path south that they considered that assumed a slower speed of 460mph as opposed to 518mph.

And that 460 line takes it closer to Indonesia and Australia than the one that they keep showing.

That 460 line may still be in play.

[Lx]

Thailand?
They have a satellite?

[Focault's Pendulum]

Thailand? They have a satellite?

Sort of, but they were having trouble with the launch sequence.

[Focault's Pendulum]

And the images come in kind of fuzzy.

[Lx]

I hope he has a good chiropractor. Nice to see the guy in front helping out.
Does he get dizzy rotating that thing like a radar antenna?

[the OlLine Rebel]

ROFLMAO

[Uncle Chip]

LOL

[Yosemitest]

You link doesn't work.
I think this is it.

The Possible MH370 Debris Sighting Fits Right In The Expected Flight Path

Here are two airports under the northern route of the red arc:

Qyzylorda, Kazakhstan UAOO
Rwy 06/24 is 8858 x 148 Ft

Almaty, Kazakhstan UAAA
Two parallel runways over 14,000 ft long.

I still believe that MH370, a Boeing 777-200ER, is in Iran or Pakistan.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Nice to see the guy in front helping out.

Yeah, well...if he doesn't start hang gliding soon, the guy in front is supposed to get him started and throw him off the mountain.

"Bangkok, we have a problem!"

[Night Hides Not]

Latest image from the crash site:

[logi_cal869]

No idea what happened to the hyperlink; I saw the URL pasted...but that’s it.

[Yosemitest]

The Obama monitoring and deletion administration is to blame, no doubt. (Hehehehehe)