'Contact lost' with Malaysia Airlines plane

GJM said:
I have a very experienced commercial pilot friend who seriously believes its at Diego Garcia. Far to many inconsistencies, unexplained happenings, lack of wreckage etc
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being a commercial pilot doesn't stop him from being a total retard
 
Hopes are raised again as Ocean Shield has found an oil slick in the vicinity where it detected the pings. A sample has been collected but it will be days before it can be conclusively tested.

As the pinging has now stopped Ocean Shield will deploy the autonomous underwater vehicle Bluefin-21 to continue the search.
 
After all this time and the weather that has been in the area surely it can't be from the plane :confused: I would have thought any oil (or any other fluid from the plane) would have dispersed over a huge area or be in an entirely different location.
 
Django x2 said:
that ship costs that much to run regardless of if it's in the Indian Ocean, or cruising down the English Channel. The costs are really a moot point and just media sensationalising...
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Not true. An offshore construction/support vessel like the Ocean Shield will cost ~100k/day mark because of the survey/technical crew onboard as well as the equipment. 100k rates are operational costs, not transit costs.
 
Greboth said:
After all this time and the weather that has been in the area surely it can't be from the plane :confused: I would have thought any oil (or any other fluid from the plane) would have dispersed over a huge area or be in an entirely different location.
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Well sunken ships carry on leaking oil for many years, even decades in some instances, no reason to think a crashed aircraft would be any different, granted the quantities of oil/fuel would be smaller, but it won't all leak out in one go so yup, if it's down there on the seabed, it will still be leaking.
 
I think the cockpit crew were trying to ransom the plane. After purposefully turning off all tracking sensors, I suspect in doing so they turned off their navigation sensors and promptly got lost
 
VoG said:
Well sunken ships carry on leaking oil for many years, even decades in some instances, no reason to think a crashed aircraft would be any different, granted the quantities of oil/fuel would be smaller, but it won't all leak out in one go so yup, if it's down there on the seabed, it will still be leaking.
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True enough!

The USS Arizona which was sunk during the pearl harbour attack is still leaking oil now, over 70 years later!
 
Nothing offshore-wise happens very quickly. They are using an AUV with a sidescan to try to find the wreckage which does at best, 4kts with no real indication of where to look. A deepwater multibeam would be my first choice as you will achieve a swath width of (probably) x3 water depth, covering a much larger area. Problem is resolution is quite low at these extreme depths, 5m or so. However, if the plane hasn't broken up to badly you would expect to see something.

I was surveying offshore Brazil when the Air France plane went down. We were asked to go and look for it using our EM122 but the Brazilian Navy said "no".
 
Bluefin-21’s first search day got cut short as it went below its 4500m dive limit and a safety feature made it surface. It did collect six hours of data which is now being analysed.
 
Django x2 said:
Nothing in 4 days. I fear this thread will "resurface" in some years
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The only update we have is from today:

"Provided the weather is favorable for launch and recovery of the AUV and we have a good run with the serviceability of the AUV, we should complete the search of the focused underwater area in five to seven days," the Joint Agency Coordination Centre told Reuters in an email.
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So if that doesn't come up with anything it may well be years.
 
Sky just put a newsflash up saying a plane has just been hijacked in Bali from Indonesia - seeing as it's roughly in the same region as where MH370.. I wonder if there's any link at all,
 
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