'Contact lost' with Malaysia Airlines plane

Question now has to be what new data and why has it taken 2 weeks to come to light? unless their talking about analysis of the pictures taken of wreckage proves it is from the plane?
 
"Malaysian Airlines says it now has to assume "beyond any reasonable doubt" that missing flight MH370 has been lost and and there are no survivors."
Src:BBC
Deliberately ambiguous? Is there new data or are they reacting to pressure?
 
Sky News presenter said they haven't actually confirmed any wreckage, but then goes on saying that it definitely crashed there..
 
Its just analysis of the satellite pings we've known about for ages. Its just a uk company has done analysis of it and concluded it was over the ocean and a flight path from the 7 pings.
 
You would have thougt by now they would have got the hang of releasing information. The confirmation that it was Indian ocean does suggest they found some wreckage which is contradictory to the reports the Australians didn't find anything.

Even if they have found some wreckage could still be a long time until we know what happened as I assume any wreckage still floating after all these days could be a long long way from the actual crash site.
 
Basically they have now confirmed that they know the rough area where the plane was when they received the last ping.
And with there NOT being any runways its safe to assume its in the water.
 
Even if they do find some wreckage, it could be years before they find the black box, and even then it might not hold all the answers. This thread will be huge by then with all the theories!
 
So basically the UK company Inmarsat, and the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch have done some more analysis... and decided it went down in the Southern Arc, about 1500 miles off Australia. Completely off course, and no explanation for why all the other transponders etc were turned off.
No wreckage confirmed or anything. Just some clever Brits!

I imagine all those that have wasted their time and money searching the Gulf of Thailand, Andaman Sea, Malacca Strait etc will be a bit annoyed.... as it's not any 'new' wreckage discoveries or anything, just looking at data that was received 17 days ago.
 
"andy" said:
and what data would that be ?

Australia put a press release out an hour ago saying mondays search is over and nothing was sighted . now they say its definetly gone down there . more stangeness
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Apparently information/data/analysis supplied by British satellite company Inmarsat and the UK's Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB).
 
Westyfield2 said:
So basically the UK company Inmarsat, and the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch have done some more analysis... and decided it went down in the Southern Arc, about 1500 miles off Australia.
No wreckage confirmed or anything. Just some clever Brits!

I imagine all those that have wasted their time and money searching the Gulf of Thailand, Andaman Sea, Malacca Strait etc will be a bit annoyed.... as it's not any 'new' wreckage discoveries or anything, just looking at data that was received 17 days ago.
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Ah but the key here is it is allegedly looking at data "using techniques that have never been used before in this type of investigation"

Take from that what you will :)
 
Glaucus said:
Now the question is how big the search area is? What ever the satellite area is, which may be big or small. Plus a maximum 59minuts flight
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Big :)

On a serious note - they have said on the news, in 17 days the debris could have drifted up to 400 nautical miles in a straight line. But due to currents and movements in the sea a closer figure would possibly be around 200 nautical miles from the point of the crash. Which is a lot of Ocean to search.

What the guy on the news alluded to was using data modelling to hone the search. Still seems a massive undertaking though.
 
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The Statement

This evening I was briefed by representatives from the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB). They informed me that Inmarsat, the UK company that provided the satellite data which indicated the northern and southern corridors, has been performing further calculations on the data. Using a type of analysis never before used in an investigation of this sort, they have been able to shed more light on MH370's flight path.

Based on their new analysis, Inmarsat and the AAIB have concluded that MH370 flew along the southern corridor, and that its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth.

This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.

We will be holding a press conference tomorrow with further details. In the meantime, we wanted to inform you of this new development at the earliest opportunity. We share this information out of a commitment to openness and respect for the families, two principles which have guided this investigation.

Malaysia Airlines have already spoken to the families of the passengers and crew to inform them of this development. For them, the past few weeks have been heartbreaking; I know this news must be harder still. I urge the media to respect their privacy, and to allow them the space they need at this difficult time.​
 
I was at Inmarsat on Wednesday. Whilst it saddens me that not more can be done without finding wreckage, the ability to work on this project was incredible, yet humbling at the same time.
 
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