As I said earlier today in another post, if that plane went into the drink, there would have been a lot of debris found in the ocean. A lot of time elapsed between when the airplane went in and when anybody had any idea of where it went in.
Check this out: qz.com/191465/why-locating-mh370-in-the-southern-ocean-is-so-difficult/
They dropped ten pairs of satellite-tracked buoys into the South Indian Ocean. Each pair started off only 10m apart. "Within days, the buoys within each pair were already at least kilometers apart. Three months later and some of the pairs are now separated by thousands of kilometers."
if the plane did indeed go into the ocean, then somebody had to clean up the debris before this whole search thingy could be started off the shores of AussieLand.
Nope. The floating parts of the wreckage could be anywhere in a huge area by now. The only reason the black boxes have been found, if they've been found, is the extraordinary intelligence of some engineers at Inmarsat in the UK.
Satellites have poured over every square inch of the Indian Ocean over the last 30 or so days. If there was debris out there it would have been found by now. The only reason the black boxes have been found, if they've been found, is the extraordinary intelligence of some engineers at Inmarsat in the UK.
Another story posted on FR today has an Aussie official stating that any information on black box pings is untrue. At this point, the plane being hauled off the ocean floor would be the proof that I would need to see to know that the plane has been found. I will applaud the intelligence of the engineers of Inmarsat when we know definitively that the plane has been found. I hope that we do not come to learn that the Inmarsat folks were not the hand used to occupy our attention while the other hand was doing who knows what?