This is a Boeing 777...next step below a 747...this is not a small plane. This is weird.
This is a Boeing 777...next step below a 747...this is not a small plane. This is weird.
Have you flown across the Pacific? The Earth is BIG, really big! There is a vast amount of water to cover in a search and they are still (as far as I know) unsure which way the aircraft was actually heading at the time all the fuel would have been exhausted.
...”this is not a small plane”
There are still planes lost in WW2 being found.
There was one recently in Alaska, if i remember correctly there was a b17 found in a glacier within last 10 yrs.
When taken in perspective, the earth is large and planes are small in relation.
Nothing weird about it.
Volume of the "big plane":7,000 ft3
Volume of the Indian Ocean: 9,323,072,014,500,000,000 ft3
It took a long time to find the explorer Fossett...who was “just out for a short trip around a Nevada airstrip”
Soooo, is this thread trying to say that the former MH370 IS in the hands of terrorists and will fly again in an attack on the US or that it is not?
No, not surprising at all.
You have to understand, there are many huge areas around the globe, mainly over the oceans, that are not covered by radar. In fact I would submit that once a plane more than a 400 or 500 miles from a coastline over the open ocean they will be out of radar contact due to radar ranges and the curvature of the earth until they fly close enough to another radar site. You can fly over the Indian and Pacific Oceans and at time have to fly 1000 or maybe even 1500 miles while outside of radar coverage. Fly from Sydney Aus. to say Johannesburg SAfrica and you’re going to fly for hours at some point outside of any radar coverage, with the exception of navel ships that are out to sea and happen to be close enough to your path. Also, Radar, even today is far from perfect, there are times when atmospheric conditions can make it difficult to detect contacts that are technically within range but relatively far away. Air traffic radars are not nearly as advanced as the military radars like the AEGIS phased array type. Air traffic radars are the old fashioned spinning antenna type, they are to be honest, old fashioned and past their prime to say the least.
...is no more than we did when this started.