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[2014] Most plausible explanation of mystery of Malasyian Flight 370

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BTW, I've thought more about my comments above. I don't think they need to program it to violate its depth rating. Just reprogram it so that it stays at its maximum depth rating as the ocean floor gets deeper. As long as the ocean floor only gets a few hundred meters deeper, it still should get adequate resolution. If the ocean gets much deeper than that, they need a new tool. And there aren't a whole lot of AUVs in the world with the capabilities of Bluefin. We have one, but it doesn't go deeper than that IIRC.

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Supposedly, the reason they aren't releasing the information is because they don't have a piece of the wreckage yet.



"The reason they haven’t announced it is what the families have gone through in terms of all the false leads, and they are demanding that they see pieces of wreckage," Mearns said.

David Mearns is actually saying he found the wreck.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...e-has-been-found/story-fnizu68q-1226885865464

ONE of the world’s most experienced wreck hunters believes the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been found and that recovering its black boxes is inevitable.
David Mearns, the director of UK-based Bluewater Recoveries said that 40 days after the Boeing 777-200ER went missing, search teams had finally found their target.
“I think essentially they have found the wreckage site,” Mearns told the ABC’s 7.30 program last night.
“While the Government hasn’t announced that yet, if somebody asked me: ‘Technically, do they have enough information to say that?’ My answer is unequivocally ‘Yes’.”

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Wreckage means parts of a plane. Where are the parts ?


Beats me, but Im sure they will show up. Dave Mearns is the guy that finds ships and planes at the bottom of the ocean. He holds the record for the deepest under water finds.


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He doesn't say he's found any wreckage. If you read his words, they say he's found the area where the wreckage is. An area about 25k m by 9 km. About 10X the size of Howland Island where it's presumed Amelia Earheart went down. And it's almost 3 miles down. Deeper than any deep water recovery has ever been accomplished. Even below the maximum depth of the autonomous survey machine can go. So far it keeps having anomalies and returning to the surface without accomplishing anything.

I'm not saying that there is not the most qualified people on the job, nor that the best equipment available isn't working on it. Just that it's far from a done deal.

Now, What do you suppose the authorities might learn on the outside chance that one or both flight recorders could be recovered? I maintain that everyone was dead on that airplane- like on Payne Stewart's. So 2 hours of silence on a voice recorder. And since the plane was on autopilot, the data recorder would just show normal flight inputs until fuel exhaustion.
 

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Now, What do you suppose the authorities might learn on the outside chance that one or both flight recorders could be recovered? I maintain that everyone was dead on that airplane- like on Payne Stewart's. So 2 hours of silence on a voice recorder. And since the plane was on autopilot, the data recorder would just show normal flight inputs until fuel exhaustion.
I'm not an expert on flight recorders, but I am constantantly told that if I simply overwrite the data on my hard disc experts will be able to recover the data. That is why I need to physically smash a hard disc when I have no more use for it. Thus, my bet is that while the last two hours will be what is on the surface of the flight recording, experts will be able to recover earlier recordings from the flight. If the last two hours are the sounds of silence that will make it all the easier to go below the surface and recover earlier data.
 

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Silence on an airplane is not the silence of an sound deadening room.

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First, they gotta find the wreck. Need I remind you that so far, there is not the smallest shred of hard evidence that they are even looking in the right ocean? Then they need to find a way to get to it. Then they need to figure out how to rip into it and detach the data boxes and get them to the surface. All the while treating the place with the respect of a tomb and as a possible crime scene, AND under pressure of over a ton per sq. inch.

All with the very real likelihood that they will find out nothing- and almost certainly, nothing that might prevent a similar occurrence.
 

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Still nothing found of MH370. No ELT, no oil slick, no black box or aircraft parts floating in the water anywhere. I still believe there is a missing 777 out there and it is at large sitting on land somewhere. I hope that I am wrong and we never see it flying again.
 

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Nothing I've read or heard so far negates my original theory: Alien abduction.
Pings and what-have-you can be intentional distractions. Reference: "X-Files."

To anyone offended, my apology: It is what it is, and sometimes, it isn't.
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Material on Australian Shore Not from Malaysia Jet -by Rod McGuirk/ The Associated Press/ pulse.me

"CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian officials said Thursday that after examining detailed photographs of unidentified material that washed ashore in the southwestern part of the country they are satisfied it is not a clue in the search for the missing Malaysian plane.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has advised search coordinators that the material, which washed ashore 10 kilometers (6 miles) east of Augusta in Western Australia, is not from missing Flight 370, according to a statement from the Joint Agency Coordination Centre..."


Another disappointment in a long list of disappointments.


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Search for Missing Malaysian Jet Will Move Southwest, Officials Say - by Keith Bradsher/ World/ TheGlobeandMail.com

"Australia plans to resume searching for Malaysia Airlines’ missing Flight 370 to the southwest of the area in the Indian Ocean where the seafloor was scanned in detail last month, Australian officials said in interviews over the last five days.
The shift to the southwest reflects analyses of a series of electronic “handshakes” between the missing Boeing 777-200 and a satellite operated by the London-based company Inmarsat in the hours after the plane vanished before dawn March 8 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing with 239 people aboard..."


and

Missing MH370: Robo-Sub Hasn't Scoured Potential 'Hot Spot' - by Alexander Smith/ NBCNews.com

"The main ship charged with finding Flight MH370 has still not yet looked in the area of ocean where the jet likely crashed, according to satellite experts
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The frustrating search continues.


Richard
 
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I also agree with this theory. There are so many abandoned airstrips in the area.

Back in March 2014, I stated that this air plane landed on an abandon airstrip and my personal opinion have not change.
 

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Back in March 2014, I stated that this air plane landed on an abandon airstrip and my personal opinion have not change.

Go to Google Earth. Zoom in on the 'West' island airport in the Cocos island chain just south of Sumatra which is in the supposed southern flight path of flight 370.
 

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Go to Google Earth. Zoom in on the 'West' island airport in the Cocos island chain just south of Sumatra which is in the supposed southern flight path of flight 370.

Hey, you found us. :hi:

Firstly, we don't steal planes :eek:, particularly when they are full of tourists :p. We wouldn't do that to our Malaysian neighbours, plus, we are too busy surfing, fishing, diving and downing a few beers in the Cocos Club (pub).

Come on down and bring your long board. Board a plane in Perth, Western Australia, fly for 5 hours over the Indian Ocean until you’re about halfway to Sri Lanka, then land on a coral atoll and go through immigration. Australians love visitors and we're open for business.

Christmas (Kiritimati) Island, which is partway between Java and the Cocos Islands, is about 60% national park and has beautiful walking trails. It is also the location of our very busy refugee and immigration detention centre. We do welcome tourists there as well. :wave:
 
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Hey, you found us. :hi:

Firstly, we don't steal planes :eek:, particularly when they are full of tourists :p.

I know you think that you don't steal planes, but would you please keep your eyes open down there? If you notice anything suspicious, let us know. :)
 

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I know you think that you don't steal planes, but would you please keep your eyes open down there? If you notice anything suspicious, let us know. :)
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Hi Ace, I'm wondering if people think we drink so much we wouldn't notice the odd international passenger jet unexpectedly dropping in. :D

We have plenty of surfers and nature loving hikers out on all those other remote islands too. I'm feeling confident that they would notice and report an influx of 239 well dressed tourists.
 
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Hi Ace, I'm wondering if people think we drink so much we wouldn't notice the odd international passenger jet unexpectedly dropping in. :D

We have plenty of surfers and nature loving hikers out on all those other remote islands too. I'm feeling confident that they would notice and report an influx of 239 well dressed tourists.

Hi Carol,

You have a finely tuned sense of humor. Love it.

Best regards,

Richard
 

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Hi Carol,

You have a finely tuned sense of humor. Love it.

Best regards,

Richard

Cheers Richard, glad I made you smile.
I'd like to reassure everyone that in the event our drinkers miss any wayward planes there is a watchful community of sober Golfers. The golf course is down either side of the Airstrip with the unusual hazards of landing and departing aircraft as well as land crab burrows.

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Here is The Cocos Club bar which, by the way, is next to the airport.

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Golfers and plane (not Malaysian ;))
 
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Malaysia Jet Passengers Likely Suffocated, Australia Says - by Lincoln Feast/ Reuters/ Yahoo!News/ yahoo.com

"The passengers and crew of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 most likely died from suffocation and coasted lifelessly into the ocean on autopilot, a new report released by Australian officials on Thursday said.

In a 55-page report, the Australian Transport Safety Board outlined how investigators had arrived at this conclusion after comparing the conditions on the flight with previous disasters, although it contained no new evidence from within the jetliner..."

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Back on March 20th (post 154), after hoping against hope that some fragment would be found somewhere on land, I postulated the same scenario. A plane load of corpses flew along until fuel was exhausted.

Jim
 
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