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Unconfirmed report says Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 black box has been found
news.com.au ^ | 11th April 2014

Posted on 04/10/2014 8:02:04 PM PDT by naturalman1975

THERE are unconfirmed reports that the black box flight recorder from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been found.

Perth radio station 6PR tweeted the report, citing aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who is in China, is giving a pre-planned press conference at 2pm AEST.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackbox; flightrecorder; mh370; muslimpilots
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To: Bryan24

While I don’t know if this is true for all model of planes, black boxes are designed, in the event of a water crash, to disengage from the plane and float to the surface.


41 posted on 04/10/2014 8:31:35 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Proud2BeRight

Correct.


42 posted on 04/10/2014 8:31:45 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: naturalman1975

We’ll have to wait to see if the rest of the plane is attached


43 posted on 04/10/2014 8:39:32 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: PghBaldy

Angus Houston just threw cold water on PM Abbott’s statements. Said no major new developments.


44 posted on 04/10/2014 8:41:18 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Bryan24

1-800-CALL FLIPPER


45 posted on 04/10/2014 8:41:26 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Iron Munro

bleeech


46 posted on 04/10/2014 8:44:57 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“if they find the boxes without the actual plane I will think some shenanigans are going on here”

So what “independent authority” is going to go out to the “crash site” and “verify” that the plane’s there? Just look at the prospect of Flight 800 not being a “fuel tank” explosion despite all the FBI ascertions that it was. I mean the “trust” of all the world’s governments is at an all-time low.


47 posted on 04/10/2014 8:45:26 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: naturalman1975

Sorta begs the question, if it really is the black box, what the heck was the airplane doing waaaaay over there by Australia?


48 posted on 04/10/2014 8:45:33 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Husker24
Who gets to download the data?

I would think that only Boeing, or the manufacturer of the recorder, can safely access it. I doubt that it has a USB jack that you can connect with a cable to any desktop PC and it immediately starts playback. As a bare minimum, the outer protective container must be opened - and they are made to survive in fire, or as this case may be, at the bottom of the ocean. You don't want to do this with a sledgehammer or a plasma cutter. You need drawings, documents, and special tools. Boeing has them. I doubt that the customer airline has them as well. It's not something they need to maintain from the inside - it's just a board with Flash chips. If it passes self-test, it's good to go. If it doesn't, back to the manufacturer it goes.

49 posted on 04/10/2014 8:46:34 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: InvisibleChurch

Lloyd Bridges from “Sea Hunt” is leading the scuba team.


50 posted on 04/10/2014 8:46:42 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: carriage_hill

He picked a bad time to quit meth-cocaine.


51 posted on 04/10/2014 8:49:01 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (http://thegatwickview.tumblr.com/ http://thepurginglutheran.tumblr.com/)
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To: carriage_hill

Heheh.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.


52 posted on 04/10/2014 8:50:13 PM PDT by BeadCounter (morning glory evening grace)
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To: All

Listening to live feed - very low quality/distorted of PM speaking now.


53 posted on 04/10/2014 8:53:04 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: BeadCounter

54 posted on 04/10/2014 8:53:20 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: naturalman1975

“We are confident that we know the position of the black box flight recorder to within a distance of a few kilometres.”


55 posted on 04/10/2014 8:54:26 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: Greysard

Unless the boxes have changed in the last few years they are actually wire recordings. Sounds silly in todays electronics world but the non-corrosive wire can withstand a lot of heat chips cannot and still contain data.

Actually it is the FAA or NTSB that can open up and transcribe the info.


56 posted on 04/10/2014 8:55:33 PM PDT by biff (WAS)
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To: Jonty30
"...black boxes are designed to disengage from the plane and float to the surface."

Name one model aircraft that has this magical mechanism.

57 posted on 04/10/2014 8:56:25 PM PDT by diogenes ghost
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To: PghBaldy
(ABC) Clayton Sandell ‏@Clayton_Sandell 49m FYI... we are being cautioned by informed sources that reports the #MH370 black box has been located are UNTRUE. More to come as we know it.
58 posted on 04/10/2014 8:57:19 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: carriage_hill
Lloyd Bridges from “Sea Hunt” is leading the scuba team.

Be honest, can you say that without hearing the dramatic music in your head? Unless of course your a youngster.

59 posted on 04/10/2014 8:57:50 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Husker24; Greysard
"Who gets to download the data?"

Malasia gets first dibs.

But they may defer to NTSB, who is acknowledged to be the best at forensic retrieval.

Certainly NOT Boeing, and NOT Malaysia Airlines.

60 posted on 04/10/2014 9:03:54 PM PDT by diogenes ghost
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