Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is Missing

delft said:

I think it will be difficult to trace the part back to where it entered the ocean. Only recently were intermittendly occurring vortices recognized in the much better know Atlantic Ocean. If they occur in the Indian Ocean you just can't know when and how they influenced the drift of this part. A lot can happen in a year.

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Like it or not, the best they can come up with, even with the most viable data simulation, is still a guesstimate; sure that'd help to narrow things down but we're still talking about a huge piece of real estate to comb over.

Victims' families will naturally wants to recover something or anything of their love ones, but as we all know, a body left at sea over a year won't have much left already, not to mention the kind of cost and manpower hours would be astronomical if not unrealistic...they'd have better odds if you got Moses to part that area of the Indian Ocean to make things just a bit easier, and that tells you how bad the odds are to locate the wreckage of flight MH370.

MH370: Part Found On Reunion Island Is From Missing Plane

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flight that vanished more than a year ago, Malaysia's prime minister said.

The debris is the first piece of physical evidence recovered from the ill-fated plane, which disappeared on March 8, 2014 along with its 239 passengers and crew.

“It is with a very heavy heart that I must tell you, an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion is indeed from MH370,” Prime Minister Najib Razak said at a brief press conference. "We now have physical evidence that ... Flight MH370 tragically ended in the Southern Indian Ocean."

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Apparently, the plane went way off course as said before. It's supposed to go north, but turned south.

My question is: can passenger use smartphone or manual compass to detect the unusual path of his flight? I mean, if there is an unusual course, maybe the passengers can question the pilot or crews.

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Apparently, the plane went way off course as said before. It's supposed to go north, but turned south.

My question is: can passenger use smartphone or manual compass to detect the unusual path of his flight? I mean, if there is an unusual course, maybe the passengers can question the pilot or crews.

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Since I’m getting old and am out of touch with new popular culture technology, I would be unable to answer the first part of your question (i.e. the smartphone as a compass). However, yes a manual compass could indeed work. The problem would be convincing the crew that your manual compass is accurate and question you as being paranoid. Not that you are, it’s just that would be the questioning from the first line crew you approach. Also I think you would not have cellular phone reception that high, or that far from land.

The third item being the use of a pay (inflight telephone to contact authorizes) phone. Again I wonder how well that is going to go.

It would be a difficult situation indeed.



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MH370: Part Found On Reunion Island Is From Missing Plane


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Miragedriver said:

MH370: Part Found On Reunion Island Is From Missing Plane

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At the very least it will give some sort of closure to families of victims. I really hope they find the actual wreakage in the next year etc.. hopefully it will reenergize or motivate the S&D efforts

The truth is they're probably not anywhere closer to finding the crash site. I read that the area they've been searching based on the satellite handshake information has already been swept over at least once. When the media plays with ocean currents models, they all seem to continue to believe the crash site is in that area. So if it is there where it's believed to have crashed, search sweeps still haven't found the crash site after at least one complete sweep which means they're no where closer to finding it. If the plane crashed outside the search area, are the experts venturing outside the established zone or are they sticking to where the satellite handshakes data tells them? Either way they're no closer to finding the crash site.

This flaperon discovery has once again perked my interest.. and I'm back to my original presumption of malaysian government hiding something! probably due to embarassment, inadequacy or something.

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This is a VERY GOOD radar. It's a 3D L band Air defence radar also use extensively as part of NATO's air defence network in the southern corridor.

Unless the radar was literally broke which would fit with the embarrasing narrative) there is absolutely no reason why the silex couldn't have track a big bird like the trip 7 through all the course changes, altitude corrections and headings through the way points.

I heard this afternoon that after the Malaysian PM's announcement, the team doing the investigation on the debris said that they had not discovered indisputable evidence of the link to MH370.

I believe it most probably is...but am still waiting for that team itself to announce it.

It sounds like the Malaysian PM perhaps was premature...again.

kwaigonegin said:

This flaperon discovery has once again perked my interest.. and I'm back to my original presumption of malaysian government hiding something! probably due to embarassment, inadequacy or something.

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This is a VERY GOOD radar. It's a 3D L band Air defence radar also use extensively as part of NATO's air defence network in the southern corridor.

Unless the radar was literally broke which would fit with the embarrasing narrative) there is absolutely no reason why the silex couldn't have track a big bird like the trip 7 through all the course changes, altitude corrections and headings through the way points.

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Perhaps the Malaysian DOD. operate like the Swiss airforce in not working the weekends.