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How do you lose a 777?
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I'm not even sleeping on the couch these days. Fought my way back in this weekend. I just have to wear a helmet to cushion to blows to the head resulting from my snoring.
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blows to the head and person don't help with mr snick. I have resorted to keeping ear plugs on my dresser for the nights when it is bad. If i can get to sleep first then it usually isn't an issue, but if I wake up int he middle of the night then I have problems
One pilot's theory on how a fire could explain everything:
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/
^That is a very convincing argument.
However, if the plane crashed into the ocean, wouldn't the EPIRBs go off, automatically? That would have been picked up by satellite, regardless of where it went down. I don't know, but I assume that EPIRBs are deployed similar to the way they are deployed on ocean going vessels - one each on the inflatable life rafts. I suppose they could be triggered upon wetting, but then get dragged down by the wreckage into the deep, where the signal might then be so attenuated that it can't be detected? But even so, there should have been at least a short burst of EPIRB transmission if the plane had crashed into the ocean, within a relatively short time window that is now known a lot more precisely.
The fact that everyone has essentially called off the ocean searches leads me to believe that this avenue of thought has been examined and came up empty.
However, if the plane crashed into the ocean, wouldn't the EPIRBs go off, automatically? That would have been picked up by satellite, regardless of where it went down. I don't know, but I assume that EPIRBs are deployed similar to the way they are deployed on ocean going vessels - one each on the inflatable life rafts. I suppose they could be triggered upon wetting, but then get dragged down by the wreckage into the deep, where the signal might then be so attenuated that it can't be detected? But even so, there should have been at least a short burst of EPIRB transmission if the plane had crashed into the ocean, within a relatively short time window that is now known a lot more precisely.
The fact that everyone has essentially called off the ocean searches leads me to believe that this avenue of thought has been examined and came up empty.
Hmmm... Australia and the US are now saying that they have located objects in satellite images that they think may be debris from the wreckage, way off the southwest coast of Australia. A U.S. Navy P-8 is supposedly "almost there", to begin the search.
They are also saying that they were able to get a lot more location information out of the satellite "pings" and have narrowed the plane's flight path to two paths headed directly south, across the Indian Ocean, towards Antarctica. So it's sounding pretty grim.... probably something along the lines of the fire scenario described in that post above here...
I was really hoping for some good news, after all this speculation. It certainly is not sounding good now.
They are also saying that they were able to get a lot more location information out of the satellite "pings" and have narrowed the plane's flight path to two paths headed directly south, across the Indian Ocean, towards Antarctica. So it's sounding pretty grim.... probably something along the lines of the fire scenario described in that post above here...
I was really hoping for some good news, after all this speculation. It certainly is not sounding good now.
Road Guy
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Can't you take a dingy over there and check it out?
I saw that on the news and after they spent this week making the pilots out to be possible terrorist I just hope they close this case soon...
And how Long would plane debris float?
I saw that on the news and after they spent this week making the pilots out to be possible terrorist I just hope they close this case soon...
And how Long would plane debris float?
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watching this on the news now, I think it sounds like the first solid lead yet.
I'd say they will find it within the hour or so
I'd say they will find it within the hour or so
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When I saw the P-8 flying out of Australia, my first thought was, "someone must have heard the black box ping."
I suspect some fast attack was burning neutrons to get over there and take a listen, heard something, and sent it on up the chain. WTG USN!
I suspect some fast attack was burning neutrons to get over there and take a listen, heard something, and sent it on up the chain. WTG USN!
DVINNY
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Now they are saying that the P-8 found nothing but a boat, and they believe that boat was in those satellite images.
So it continues.
So it continues.
That story made a lot of sense but the first thing that came up when I googled "Pulau Langkawi" was this story refuting it:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-26640114
Road Guy
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the ocean is a big place we have to remind ourselves... just looking at this one image makes me feel it truly is very difficult for the search parties to do what they are doing.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/07/asia/gallery/malaysia-airliner/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/07/asia/gallery/malaysia-airliner/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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