Malaysia Airlines 777 missing

fholbert said:
Not sure I agree with that but assuming the recorders have a 1 or 2 hour loop they were over written at least twice.
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Its nearing winter in the southern ocean. The southern ocean constantly moves from west to east around the globe continuously. So the debris has been moving from west to east at a conservative 2 knots per hour. For what 15 days? 360 hours X 2. So with an unknown impact the debris will float in a 60 degree arc or so roughly East(ish) about 720 miles. The best bet is to wait on the coast for stuff to start washing ashore. Even if they could determine the resting place of the recorders it would be extremely costly and difficult to recover them. In 3000' to 16,000' of water in an extremely cold climate with massive seas and winds that constantly sit around 20 knots and blow for over 40 knots for weeks on end. It is fall right now the calmest it will be all year and they barely have weather to do a visual search.

Some surfer or beachcomber may find a seat cushion washed up along 2000 miles of empty West Australian coastline. If the plane broke up upon ditching. However if the aircraft was intact there may be little to find.
 
fholbert said:
Satellite images from France show "potential objects" in area of southern corridor of Flight 370 search, Malaysian
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I've now seen the original and both remakes of this film as well. The first two were in Chinese. This remake is in French. They should all be titled, "The Never-Ending Story." Until somebody has in hand a piece of luggage tagged "MH370," these reports are both worthless and tiresome. Besides, any flotsam found now will be 1,000 NM or more from the actual crash site.

The probability of locating the wreckage on the sea floor dropped to just about zero over a week ago, and that probability isn't getting any better no matter what they find at this late date.
 
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RDoug said:
I've now seen the original and both remakes of this film as well. The first two were in Chinese. This remake is in French. They should all be titled, "The Never-Ending Story." Until somebody has in hand a piece of luggage tagged "MH370," these reports are both worthless and tiresome. Besides, any flotsam found now will be 1,000 NM or more from the actual crash site.

The probability of locating the wreckage on the sea floor dropped to just about zero over a week ago, and that probability isn't getting any better no matter what they find at this late date.
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If they find wreckage, life jacket, etc... they will be able to trace sea currents to a relative area, and use scanning to POSSIBLY locate wreckage.
 
Vector4Food said:
If they find wreckage, life jacket, etc... they will be able to trace sea currents to a relative area, and use scanning to POSSIBLY locate wreckage.
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It's not just charted currents. It's also about unknown, ever-changing prevailing winds through unmeasured areas of the sea over the entire elapsed time. It's about how much water drag versus how much wind being caught by each individual piece of debris. It's about the increasing weight (drag) of each and every piece found as they became water-logged over time. And that's just some of the many variables. Put two dissimilar floating objects into the water at the same location and time, and after two weeks they could (and probably will) be separated by hundreds of miles.
 
jgheggie said:
Are the mods the only ones that can see the views?
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Heck, I didn't know I was a mod!

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