Posted on 05/28/2014 7:43:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The four acoustic pings at the center of the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 for the past seven weeks are no longer believed to have come from the plane's black boxes, a U.S. Navy official told CNN.
The acknowledgment came Wednesday as searchers wrapped up the first phase of their effort, having scanned 329 square miles of southern Indian Ocean floor without finding any wreckage from the Boeing 777-200.
Authorities now almost universally believe the pings did not come from the onboard data or cockpit voice recorders, but instead came from some other man-made source unrelated to the jetliner that disappeared on March 8, according to Michael Dean, the Navy's deputy director of ocean engineering.
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I've flown across the big pond at least 50 times. Every seat cushion on that plane is an easily detachable flotation device......
And not one of them found anywhere floating in the water.....
It does make a person wonder if they wanted to kill everyone or if they wanted the plane.
still..how is it that the debris did not float? I think they landed someplace and have these poor people hostage.
Yes they do; nothing came off the U.S. Airways plane that landed in the Hudson.
Judging by your handle, you would know — what’s the likelihood of spotting debris? Didn’t it go down in open sea? The ocean is an awful big place.
Its probably in Iran or Pakistan being retrofitted as a flying bomb.
It is right where our navy put it.
I think I need more tinfoil.
I seem to remember reading a few years ago that our Navy had “wired” a microphone grid spanning all the Oceans so we could track Soviet subs. This network should nave heard the plane impact the Ocean where ever it came down and any pings from it as well.
I know it sounds crazy, but so did the Glomar Explorer . . .
Agree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS
This network should have heard something and triangulated the sound to a specific location.
Sculley...an actual hero pilot...landed his plane in a virtual Mill-pond with rescue vessels all around.
Note: the Hudson is a river...slow moving at that...it’s not an ocean.
Truth is...you do the same that Sculley did and you do it 100 miles away from the coast of Belize...and all those “wing walkers” go into the water. Between the drownings and the sharks you probably lose 40-50% of your passengers.
Yep...much more important than my previous post...and lets remember - a 777 is a MUCH larger airplane.
You do understand that everyone onboard except the pilot were asphyxiated within the first 20 minutes of the hijacking, don’t you???
After hitting the water there would have been no departure from the plane.
Top men are on it. Top men.
Pings from another man-made source...like the CIA? Talk about engineered misdirection...I’m betting that plane is thousands of miles from where they are looking.
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