Posted on 01/17/2017 10:56:39 AM PST by BenLurkin
“Despite every effort using the best science available, cutting-edge technology, as well as modelling and advice from highly skilled professionals who are the best in their field, unfortunately, the search has not been able to locate the aircraft,” the Joint Agency Coordination Center in Australia said in a statement.
“The decision to suspend the underwater search has not been taken lightly nor without sadness,” the agency said.
The jet carrying 239 people on board vanished from civilian radar in the early hours of March 8, 2014, without so much as a distress call from its pilots.
After several false starts, scientists examining satellite pings decided the plane had turned south and flown toward one of the remotest places on earth. They directed the search toward a vast arc of ocean some 1,100 miles west of Australia.
Just last month, officials investigating the plane’s disappearance took another look at the satellite data and modeling of ocean currents and decided they might have been searching in the wrong place after all.
They recommended that the search be moved more than 200 miles north.
But it was too late: The three governments bankrolling the search had already concluded that it would be suspended unless convincing new evidence emerged to pinpoint the plane’s location.
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I would expect sever hours coverage by CNN tonight on this.
It will turn up. Everything will eventually. But it must be tough for the loved ones. God bless them.
The pilot did it deliberately. It crashed in the ocean. The Ocean is very very big. It will probably remain lost for decades.
I still think it may have accidentally been shot down by Chinese fighters........
Didn’t Gen McInerny say that it ended up landing in Pakistan or some such place?
“Didn’t Gen McInerny say that it ended up landing in Pakistan or some such place?”
That would be odd since pieces of the plane have ended up along to eastern Indian Ocean.
Call in Robert Ballard. Bet he can find it.
If underwater search technology improves...a distinct possibility...it will probably be found.
Anyone who has spent time in the USN and been to sea would know how incredibly vast it is. We are used to Jet travel, but my destroyer took 9 days to get from Yokosuka to Hawaii at cruising speed of 18 knots, including feuling in Midway. The Indian ocean while much smaller than the Pacific is also quite vast. They will be lucky to find anything. You have to experience it to get an inkling of how vast it is.
A “Conspiracy Theory Heaven” addition.
Call in Robert Ballard. Bet he can find it.
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Call in Eric Braverman. Oh, wait. Still no Braverman
With answer not revealed, I think.
You are correct. Watch “Drain the oceans on National Geographic” So deep.
Nah. Not any evidence for that.
But lots of things have been lost forever. Just watched a new Titanic show which was terrific, including mention of a ship that had been lost without trace just years prior. Latest efforts to find it were in the ‘90s, some teaser debris found but not trace of the wreck.
A muslim killed 238 people and himself.
For what? He had a great job, could travel anywhere, saw fantastic sights his countryman could not imagine.
A great life ahead and he kills hundreds for some nut named mohammad!
Aircraft from WW11 era are still turning up in strange places.
Likely will be found when someone is looking for something else
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