Malaysia Airlines 777 missing

but when their military fails to report vital information then backtracks then denies knowing anything and so on, I cant see how they can be trusted to conduct a proper investigation if or when they find the wreckage..

Welcome to world politics. We are spoiled in the first world. Accident investigations are about finding the truth so as to prevent it from happening again. In most other parts of the world, it's about finding blame so someone can be punished and national/international politics plays a big part. You only have to look at the midair that happened in Brazil to see how the Brazillian government tried to remove any wrongdoing on the part of ATC and pin all the blame on the surviving foreign pilots.
 
I can totally see this being the way they find the wreckage. If it didnt load so slow on my craptop, Id probably tinker around with it for a little bit.

I logged onto the site and browsing through the images....That is a vast, vast area to search....
 
I can totally see this being the way they find the wreckage. If it didnt load so slow on my craptop, Id probably tinker around with it for a little bit.

You mean because it's a ship looking for the wreckage right? Because that's definitely a ship.
 
Gonna have to say nay on all three counts.

There is no continuous feed of data from the aircraft. The most you'll usually have is periodic reports: after takeoff, top-of-climb, winds aloft, etc., are brief snapshots of data. For example, the after takeoff report may have single values of time, aircraft, Lat/Long, ambient temperature, peak EGTs, bleed valve states, fuel flow, etc. It plain, formatted text that gets relayed to a ground service computer (usually either at the airline, or by a service provider like ARINC).

Generally, Boeing or other OEMs do not get access to the information unless the operator has agreed to share the data (which is common in a power-by-the-hour deal, less-so with the airframer, unless the operator has made a specific request for support).

Interestingly, on the 787 and other more "integrated" aircraft (fewer dedicated LRUs) the manufacturers' lawyers have gotten out ahead and have started to make claims of ownership over the information produced by the aircraft, restricting even the airline's access to information about their own flights. It's a similar situation as when Toyota was generally refusing to perform event data recorder readouts when they had their runaway accelerator pedal problem.

Funny, even on the crappy, plain vanilla 757 I flew today from SXM to JFK, we sat there and watched the airplane send out copius amounts of data autonomously. Yes, we can watch what it sends on the ACARS screen, we just can't do anything with it.
 
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Hmm I cant even get it to load... where did you see that posted? Any discussion on it?

More importantly where on the planet it is?


came across it on CNN and was able to get onto teh site.....Just keep trying....It might take some refreshing...
 
Image found from some crowd-sourcing....


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The scale/dimension fit. What's the lat/long?
 
I dunno. It kind of looks like a fishing boat ~25m . Shadow of the wheelhouse going forward. The other one looks like a smaller boat next to some thing larger. Hard to tell. There are several 60-70m subs and a couple of surface ships on the bottom of the Malacca Strait.
 
Agh.. many hours later, I've perused the whole map. Three oil rigs, innumerable ships and boats of all varieties, and lots of flotsam. Many clouds.

*Thud*

-Fox

You must do more than simply peruse.
To find, you must scout and scope; track and run down; inquire and study; frisk, comb, and explore; search high and low; sniff about; frisk, grope, pry, and root; turn upside down and inside out.
Perusal just doesn't indicate the necessary degree of poking into and gouging out your search area.
 
I don't suppose that there is a maritime registry for shipwrecks? I tried googling it, but it's hard to say if there is a respected source from the perspective of people who know the sea.
 
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