'Contact lost' with Malaysia Airlines plane

I wonder why the UK or US don't simply send one of our latest subs to the area?

The sonar on those can pick up objects thousands of miles away, so i take it an electronic ping from the black box could be located from similar distance?
 
Firestar_3x said:
I wonder why the UK or US don't simply send one of our latest subs to the area?

The sonar on those can pick up objects thousands of miles away, so i take it an electronic ping from the black box could be located from similar distance?
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They have a sonor/device specifically designed to find black boxes, which they lower off the back of a ship on a cable, it can go down to 20000ft which is way more than a sub... Think they've already been using it,
 
koolpc said:
I have also wondered why nobody sent a text or tried to ring someone. Probably well over 50% at the very least would have had mobile phones on them.
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There are a few of possible explanations

1 - There was a mobile signal, but they were oblivious, so had no idea until they were incapacitated that there was a problem.
2 - There was no mobile signal, but they were oblivious, so had no idea until they were incapacitated that there was a problem.
3 - There was a mobile signal, and they were aware there was a problem, but there was no time to respond coherently, and they were quickly incapacitated
4 - There was no mobile signal, and they were aware there was a problem.

None of which really means anything until we know more details from the black boxes about the actual situations. Even then, we might not get an idea of motivation if there captain says nothing on the CVR during the flight. We will only know his control inputs and ambient noise in the cockpit.
 
Firestar_3x said:
I wonder why the UK or US don't simply send one of our latest subs to the area?

The sonar on those can pick up objects thousands of miles away, so i take it an electronic ping from the black box could be located from similar distance?
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They are looking for a small shoe box sized object thousands of feet under water in a huge noisy ocean that is emitting a weak sonar ping. They are good but it's still like finding a needle in a hay stack. If they find wreckage they can at least pinpoint the search.
 
koolpc said:
I have also wondered why nobody sent a text or tried to ring someone. Probably well over 50% at the very least would have had mobile phones on them.
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There is no mobile signal that far from land.

It is possible to pick up a GPS signal though. So some passengers might have known where they were heading but with no other signal there is little they can do.
 
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Firestar_3x said:
I wonder why the UK or US don't simply send one of our latest subs to the area?

The sonar on those can pick up objects thousands of miles away, so i take it an electronic ping from the black box could be located from similar distance?
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That's what the French did with AF447 off Brazil.

Except that they drove around with their headphones on listening to the whales for a while, before remembering that the black box pingers are at a frequency inaudible to humans :p.
 
A satellite has apparently spotted 122 objects floating off the western coast of Australia, some as big as 24M in length, consistent with a "debris field" apparently..
 
Cosimo said:
Taken three days ago:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26748146

and still not found.
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That article isn't very clear, does "All aircraft taking part in Wednesday's search have now left the area without identifying debris from the plane" mean the aircraft searching found no debris at all or the aircraft searching found debris but none of it was identifable as being from MH-370?
 
Personally I wouldn't have a clue of the plane I was on suddenly changes course. I suppose if you're in the air for 7 hours when it's a 4 hour flight (not sure what the journey time was meant to be in this case) you might think something's up. But a sudden turn? Really? You'd think something was up? Suppose it depends on how aggressive the turn was.

I remember boarding a plane in Barcelona and there was a liquid pouring out from underneath it (we walked up steps to board the plane). I was with my mrs and we both agreed not to say anything for fear of looking silly. Turns out it was the air conditioning overflow or something. Can't remember how we found out in the end but we didn't alert anyone to it.
 
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The debris images:

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Another day goes by and we’re still no closer to finding anything and to make it worse bad weather has again forced the aerial search to be cancelled.
 
I don't really see the point of the aerial search anyway. They seem to see less than the satellites and they can't positivity identify what they do see as being part of the plane
 
Uhtred said:
I don't really see the point of the aerial search anyway. They seem to see less than the satellites and they can't positivity identify what they do see as being part of the plane
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This,
I know they have to be seen a searching for survivors but but now the has to be little to no hope of there being any.
They need to find the black box before its bty runs out, then they should have a clue as to whats happend and where the plane is.
 
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