Posted on 04/06/2014 9:51:10 AM PDT by logi_cal869
A Royal navy ship has arrived in the southern Indian Ocean to verify signals Chinese officials believe could lead to missing flight MH370.
The three 'fleeting sounds' have been picked up in the multi-national search currently being conducted 1,000 miles off Australia's west coast.
At least one of those 'pings' is believed to have a similar frequency to that given off by a black box.
HMS Echo, one of Britain's most sophisticated hydrographic vessels, is racing against time to determine whether the sounds were signals from the plane's black box as the batteries powering the device are expected to run out in the next few days.
But first it will have to conduct an 'environmental search' to differentiate between the ocean's sounds and the potential finding.
Australia's HMS Ocean Shield is also in the vicinity, investigating a third sound detected nearby.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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When it is finally firmly established that the ROP pilots flew the plane into the ocean as an act of vengeance against the Chinese passengers, the news media will suddenly and without warning drop all coverage.
Just a note to my fellow Freepers:
“signals from the plane’s black box as the batteries powering the device are expected to run out in the next few days.”
Is of course total horse manure. The way the battery ‘life’ is determined is as follows. A statistically significant sample lot of batteries is tested. When the first battery of the lot decreases in power output below the minimum threshold, they back off a certain amount of time from that date, and that is the service life of the battery.
So the facts are, at the battery ‘life’ date, none of the batteries should actually be dead. And as you move past that point, only a small number of batteries should be dead. The median average of batteries will probably last twice as long.
If these units were equipped with one of the worst batteries, it will stop pinging in a week or two. And if it were equipped with a median battery, it could last for another month. And many of the batteries will actually last longer than that.
Unfortunately the truth takes out some of the drama that CNN and other news whores have been using to try to prop up their crappy ratings.
Dolphins, playing a little trick on us.
I assume these black boxes are quite small.
As long as we're in a "think out of the box" mode....and we know someone in the pilots seat knew the plane inside and out...why not speculate that they tossed one of the boxes in the sea. for the wild goose chase to come.
“Dolphins, playing a little trick on us.”
lol. Mean little suckers!
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The only thing we know for sure is that the longer this plane goes unfound, the sillier the theories about it will get.
Is this a special type of ship, or is it just a lovely coincidence that its name is “Echo”?
No, none of that is possible. The FDR and CVR are located where they are most likely to survive a crash. The ‘pinger’ is usually located near or on the CVR. Neither is even remotely accessible from the cockpit.
And if either box is found and provided to the FAA, it will be very easy for them to tell what happened to it. I’m not saying someone couldn’t fake it crashing into the ocean, but I am very confident our experts would catch it.
Now if one of the third rate, third would countries involved gets their hand on it and decides to do their own “investigation” then all bets are off.
Somebody else commented that the battery life isn't exactly 30 days. But a battery whose expiry date hasn't lapsed must not in the testing phase fail before 30 days. Good engineers always add a factor of safety margin to pass the tests so it would not be surprising that the pings continue for a few weeks or a month.
Both cockpit voice and flight data recorders with pingers are located in the tail which in the event of a crash are not subject to the higher g forces of the front of the plane. There is a maintenance data recorder in the cockpit area but it is not designed to be survivable nor does it have a locator pinger.
It is totally nonsensical that a non-Chinese airliner would land in Hainan (a Chinese island province) to off-load a secret cargo. It would not arouse any suspicion to offload this cargo at Beijing and put it on the next scheduled domestic flight to Hainan.
Why would you need an airliner the size of a Boeing 777 to carry a nuclear weapon? Nuclear weapons, no matter how crude, simply aren't very large objects.
I was wondering if anyone was going to catch that. LOL
It's quite possible they have been chasing the even more elusive and rare Sea Squirrel.
if you go to Goggle earth off Perth Australia, they have posted a number of sat photos roughly indicating the aircraft flight path...
Thanks for the info. I just posted what I thought was a good article.
Too late, I think I found it. There’s a bunch of metal wreckage in a field outside of Fresno. It lies right a long a curve that I drew on a map after a few drinks last night.
“But also in the US, pilots have the ability to erase the CVR once at the gate—and it’s certainly possible this occurred before MH370 went into the ocean.”
WOW (weight on wheels) switches have to be made to allow the CVR to be erased. Not possible in flight.
If the FDR (Flight Data Recorder) is ever found and gotten into the hands of competent people, we will know the story.
Two big ‘ifs’ in that sentence.
Gosh darn football players!, that's what happens when you take to many hits to the head.
I believe the captain did it to bring down the current government.
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