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Malaysia Airlines MH370: Tony Abbott says possible debris found in Indian Ocean [live thread]
ABC.net.au ^ | March 19, 2014

Posted on 03/19/2014 8:22:10 PM PDT by rdl6989

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced objects possibly related to the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane have been found in the southern Indian Ocean.


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australiasearch; iran; malaysia; mh370; planecrash; waronterror
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To: Kennard
Here is an example of whitecaps on a more Northerly portion of the Indian Ocean: Indian Ocean Whitecaps

Kinda similar...(from a Tomnod map).

241 posted on 03/20/2014 1:12:27 AM PDT by Drago
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To: Kennard

Wonder if the U.S. P-8 Poseidon & the Australian P-3 are using surface radar or may have dropped a sonobuoy?


242 posted on 03/20/2014 1:26:43 AM PDT by Drago
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To: robert14
There is an ABC reporter on one of the planes

Oh, thank you Lord, we are most assuredly saved. The truth will be presented to us in mere moments from now!

/S

243 posted on 03/20/2014 2:38:38 AM PDT by DE50AE
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To: DE50AE

Next 48 hours everyone will focus attention to the west of Oz.

Good. Maybe it is the plane.

Maybe not.


244 posted on 03/20/2014 2:45:42 AM PDT by Spartan302
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

If somebody messing the MSM? The anti submarine plane is a P-3 Orion not Oreon. Many talking heads have been calling it the Oreon for days.
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lol! I wanted to reach out and bitch-slap Shep Smith when he pre-empted ‘Red Eye’ on FNC this a.m. Throughout the hour, he kept saying “OR-e-on”. Idiot!

btw, the aircraft referred to is not the P-3, but the P-8.

To show my age, I’ll say that before and after my active duty Navy service I was in a Naval Reserve Squadron that flew P-2V Neptunes, which were not pressurized.


245 posted on 03/20/2014 2:55:10 AM PDT by octex
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To: tcrlaf

Standard length of a shipping container is 40 feet. The largest available for ships are 45 feet. Even rail containers are only 53 feet long at most.


246 posted on 03/20/2014 2:56:35 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Spartan302

FOX is all over this, over 18 ships and scores of aircraft are all racing to this location.


247 posted on 03/20/2014 2:59:44 AM PDT by Spartan302
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To: Spartan302

Another Hussein, Malaysian Air Traffic official is hyping big time that this debris is Flight 370, seems like a whole lotta effort sending assets without first confirming, all they have to do is send aircraft, confirm its not a dead whale carcass or a shipping container.


248 posted on 03/20/2014 3:04:52 AM PDT by Spartan302
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To: Drago

Rogue waves are pretty common in every ocean and can create quite a commotion.No telling what image the would create.


249 posted on 03/20/2014 3:14:12 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: rdl6989

I am quitting Team Hijacking and joining Team Electrical Fire.

I suspect that the crew experienced a fire, set the Autopilot in the direction of a nearby airfield, and was then overcome by smoke, with the aircraft continuing on the last inputted course until it ran out of fuel.

All of the supposed timeline problems will eventually be revealed to be the result of misreporting combined with the reluctance of the crew to declare an in-flight emergency.


250 posted on 03/20/2014 3:17:20 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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To: Spartan302
When we go fishing far offshore we are constantly on the lookout for debris or birds.

Spotting/identifying either one can be very deceptive. Birds can be picked up by radar,debris is harder to register and even tougher to tell what it is until you get right on top of it. Almost anything you can imagine can be floating in the ocean. Especially after storms,that's when everything shows up. Trying to positively identify stuff floating in the ocean is really tough until you get right on top of it. Even then there is usually stuff floating just under the surface as well.

251 posted on 03/20/2014 3:20:07 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: octex

You are right. The major base for them is right here at Jacksonville NAS. Not seeing too many P-3 Orions as the new P-8’s are now getting to be commonplace.


252 posted on 03/20/2014 3:40:07 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: Haiku Guy

Except one little bitty problem with that, it is now learned the “All-right, good night” transmission came 12 minutes after it maneuvered the Bat Turn heading back over Malaysia.


253 posted on 03/20/2014 3:42:26 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: Drago

The RAAF Hercules that entered the area about two hours ago was specifically going to drop buoys both for drift marking, and to try and locate any pinging transponder from flight recorders.

If they get a pinging signal, that will tell us a lot.


254 posted on 03/20/2014 3:45:25 AM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: rdl6989

Can’t think of a better “tourism” draw right now. LMAO - or maybe diversion

“Hey!!!! No, it’s over here.”


255 posted on 03/20/2014 3:47:30 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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256 posted on 03/20/2014 3:51:52 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

P8 has just returned to Perth, nothing spotted or found.


257 posted on 03/20/2014 3:56:22 AM PDT by Eye of Unk
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26659583

10:52: Reuters news agency is reporting that a Norwegian ship has reached an area in the Indian Ocean where possible debris may have been spotted.


258 posted on 03/20/2014 3:57:47 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

10:57 am
Here’s a bit more info on that Norwegian ship reaching the search area:

Norwegian car carrier Hoegh St. Petersburg has reached the area in the southern Indian Ocean off Australia where two floating objects, suspected to be debris from the missing Malaysian jetliner, were spotted, the ship owner’s said.

The car carrier was on its way from Madagascar to Melbourne when it got a request from Australian authorities to assist in investigating the objects spotted by satellite four days ago in one of the remotest parts of the globe, around 2,500 km (1,500 miles) southwest of Perth.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/live-missing-malaysia-plane-flight-3263266#ixzz2wV2DqQxt


259 posted on 03/20/2014 3:59:53 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Eye of Unk

Heavy clouds and rain in the search area. Will be night soon. Closest ship ( Oz Navy ) to the sighting area won’t be there until a day or more from now.


260 posted on 03/20/2014 4:01:51 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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