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Australia says initial MH370 debris drift models gave wrong clues
Reuters ^ | Tue Aug 4, 2015 9:59pm EDT

Posted on 08/04/2015 8:32:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Initial models of where potential debris from a missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet might first wash up had incorrectly identified Indonesia as the most likely location, the Australian body leading the search said on Wednesday.

Flight MH370 disappeared without a trace in March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board and search efforts have focused on a broad expanse of the southern Indian Ocean off Western Australia.

A piece of aircraft debris that washed up on the French island of Reunion last week roughly 3,700 km (2,300 miles) from the expected crash zone was consistent with where the plane went down, based on analysis of ocean currents, winds and waves, Australian officials and independent oceanographers said last week.

But the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is leading the search, said initial debris drift modeling undertaken in June 2014 had mistakenly indicated that the first possible landfall of debris would be on the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, in the first weeks of July 2014.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: 2014airlinercrash; australia; autopilot; indonesia; malaysia; maldives; mh370; radar; reunion; reunionisland

1 posted on 08/04/2015 8:32:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

So much for Climate Science....


2 posted on 08/04/2015 8:35:35 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: BenLurkin

The “scientists” claim they can predict the climate decades on, but can’t get the present day ocean currents correct...


3 posted on 08/04/2015 8:36:09 PM PDT by az_gila
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To: az_gila

Or... the plane wasn’t where they said it was when it went down.


4 posted on 08/04/2015 8:37:21 PM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: willyd

Bingo!


5 posted on 08/04/2015 8:38:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

How much is 2300 miles in degrees Celsius?


6 posted on 08/04/2015 8:40:13 PM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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To: BenLurkin

I have yet to see any reports of Boeing being involved. I assume they are as they would have the records.


7 posted on 08/04/2015 8:48:47 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Bob

8 posted on 08/04/2015 8:51:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Bob

About 12 Parsecs...


9 posted on 08/04/2015 9:01:47 PM PDT by W. (Sex is like air; it is not important unless you are not getting any.)
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To: BenLurkin

Since we’ve been assured that climate modeling is good for making predictions of next century’s temperature to precisions of hundredths of a degree, I was just wondering how the modeling of debris drift could be so inaccurate.


10 posted on 08/04/2015 9:09:52 PM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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To: Paladin2
So much for Climate Science....

But...CONSENSUS!

11 posted on 08/04/2015 9:10:33 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Climate change is settled science. Oceanography isn’t. There solved.


12 posted on 08/04/2015 9:43:34 PM PDT by Kozy
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To: Kozy

Climate change can’t be “settled” science. Because sh*t doesn’t sink, it floats.


13 posted on 08/04/2015 9:45:03 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Kozy

Out of 600-odd sciences....strangely...only one is settled. On any given day, there are a minimum of a dozen brilliant guys working on unseating Einstein’s theory of the “E-stuff” and no one says a word about these guys. Scientists....aren’t exactly rocket-scientists.


14 posted on 08/04/2015 9:56:37 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: BenLurkin

There are serial numbers stamped on everything, they should have been able to identify the plane that wing section came from days ago.


15 posted on 08/04/2015 10:04:50 PM PDT by Husker24
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