Posted on 03/31/2014 12:43:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Potential leads on the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 keep coming. So do the setbacks and frustrations.
Monday's search ended without finding anything significant, Australian officials said. Four orange objects spotted by search aircraft and earlier described as promising turned out be nothing more than old fishing gear, they said.
Underscoring the difficulty of the search, U.S. Navy officials loaded underwater locating gear aboard an Australian naval support vessel and set out to sea Monday evening, but won't be able to make use of the equipment until searchers narrow the search zone.
U.S. Navy Cmdr. William Marks told CNN's "State of the Union" that his team needs a conclusive piece of debris to narrow down the search area before deploying the equipment.
"We have to be careful not to send it in the wrong place," he said. "But we also wanted to get it out there as close as we can to what we believe is the right place."
The gear includes a pinger locator that's towed behind a ship and scans for the sound of the locator beacon attached to the plane's flight data recorder. Also on board is a remotely operated submersible that can look for wreckage on the ocean floor.
It will take the ship, the Ocean Shield, three days just to get to the search zone, leaving precious little time to locate the plane's flight data recorders before the batteries on its locator beacon run out. The batteries are designed to last 30 days; the plane has been missing 23 days.
Under favorable sea conditions, the pingers can be heard 2 nautical miles away. But high seas, background noise, wreckage or silt can all make pingers harder to detect.
In this case, searchers barely know where to look at all.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
and Israel stays on full alert as should we.
Every time a piece of “Debris” is found CNN has it as “Breaking News” doesn’t take a genius to figure out the difference between actual plane wreckage and a paper cup but hey, as long as it takes the focus off of Obama the media will keep reporting on garbage being found in the Indian Ocean
“2 nautical miles away”.
That’s a figure I’ve been waiting to hear. Now, is that 2 nautical miles going to work where the ocean is more than 2 miles deep? I dunno.
Anyway, if you forget about depth, and do spherical packing of 2 mile spheres on the ocean map, you can see it’s a real needle-in-the-haystack search. It’s no wonder they are jumping on the flimsiest sightings of sea garbage as the black box battery life winds down.
How many people think they are looking in the wrong place and that this is all just a distraction?
The oceans are full of trash and derelict fishing gear and that is most likely what you will find if you go looking for objects on the surface just about anywhere.
I’m amazed at how CNN can take a 30 second daily update and stretch it to 24 hours.
This story is almost done. And in a few days, so will this “list” be done. I don’t think we’ll hear much more since the Chinese have come out so strongly that they’re all dead! This will join DB Cooper in the mystery hall of fame.
MH370: Families Called to Urgent Meeting; Malaysia Press Conference 10 a.m. EDT 3/24/14
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3136667/posts
MALAYSIAN AUTHORITIES: The Plane Crashed With No Survivors
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3136697/posts
Malaysia Grand Prix pushes grieving families of jet passengers from hotel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3136731/posts
Officials Say Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane “Ended in the Southern Indian Ocean”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3136711/posts
WORLD NEWS Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Ended in Indian Ocean, Prime Minister Says
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3136787/posts
How British satellite company Inmarsat tracked down MH370
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3136789/posts
Aussie Flight Disaster Film ‘Deep Water’ Shelved Over Eerie Resemblance to Missing Malaysia Flight
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3136793/posts
Malaysia Airlines crash: Suicide mission theory of MH370 investigators
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3136904/posts
Flight 370: Storm of emotions over lives “lost” as storm at sea delays search
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3137006/posts
How a UK firm ... used a nineteenth century mathematical model to track missing flight MH370
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3137015/posts
Why locating MH370 in the Southern Ocean is so difficult
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3137062/posts
Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane: What We Know Now
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3137157/posts
Tracking down MH370 black boxes a Herculean challenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3137374/posts
MH370 pilot upset over wife’s decision to move out and in ‘no state of mind to be flying’ ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3137360/posts
MH370: Satellite Images Show Up to 122 ‘Potential Objects’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3137462/posts
‘It was his last joyride’: MH370 pilot was upset over wife moving
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3137489/posts
Watch Video: 122 objects discovered in Flight 370 search area
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3137501/posts
Satellite Detects About 300 Objects ... ‘Highly Likely That It Is Trash’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3137879/posts
‘No one would ever find it’: MH370’s erratic final moments ... a terrifying suicide mission....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3137884/posts
Son of Malaysian Airlines captain breaks silence about father
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138066/posts
Malaysia says there’s sealed evidence on MH370 that cannot be made public
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3138106/posts
Why did somebody doctor photo of men who took Flight MH370? (Shortened Title)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3138114/posts
“Alright, Goodnight” – Does Malaysia Want To Know What Happened To Flight MH-370?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138129/posts
Scientists believe they know where MH370 crashed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138166/posts
Search for lost Malaysian jet shifts significantly after new lead
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138248/posts
New Zealand military plane spots ‘objects’ in revised southern Indian Ocean search location
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3138307/posts
Five aircrafts spot ‘objects’ that could lead to missing Malaysia Airlines jet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3138333/posts?page=1
Was Flight 370 Flying Much Faster
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138336/posts
Australia to take lead as rival nation’s investigate Malaysia Airlines plane MH370 disaster
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138527/posts
Multiple objects spotted by planes in hunt for Malaysian Airlines flight MH370
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138636/posts
Flight MH370: Chinese and Australian ships draw blank
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138693/posts
Flight MH370: Chinese and Australian ships draw blank (objects recovered not related to MH370)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138737/posts
Black box detector to join Malaysian jet search
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138864/posts
British and U.S. secret service probe missing jet (truncated)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3138962/posts
Finding lost Malaysia plane may be impossible: US official
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3139181/posts
Search for Flight 370 is a global struggle
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3139185/posts
‘Accept they’re dead and prepare for their funerals’: China’s blunt message to MH370 families...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3139292/posts
MH370: New account of cockpit last words
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3139368/posts
—
And here’s a keyword search on “mh370” ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mh370/index?tab=articles
I’m starting to go with the Black Hole theory.
This is becoming tragically comical. And I mean that in the most sincerely cynical fashion you can consider.
Yup. As other possibilities get eliminated each day that black hole theory is still just sitting there...
I made this point before. Originally they were covering a search are about the size of Ohio. Then it expanded to two areas about the size of Texas. Now they seem to be back to searching an area the size of North America. That's like looking for a 1/2 carrot diamond on a dry sandy beach.
“Looking in the wrong place”:...my sixth sense has been shouting this for weeks.
CNN Breaking News: Another Styrofoam cup has been found.
Lol. I used to think those clowns that told us the government was spying on us were the tin-foil-hat crowd. I might still have egg on my face, but I won't go the "black hole" route yet. :o)
The Malaysian Govt might have shot this plane down..they wouldn’t want to admit that because it would cause an international incident with China that is the last thing they want to have happen..they know what happened to this plane, either it got shot down or it landed somewhere, I doubt the passengers are alive because where do you keep 239 people for 3 weeks
Anything is still possible.
Reminds me of the saying and I have no idea who said it but looking out over the expanse of ocean no land in sight Wow that’s a lot of ocean and the other guy says and thats just the top of it
It ain’t there.....
Obviously, this is a hopeless hunt.
Maybe check some other places....like Pakistan.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.