MH370 Missing Aircraft Investigation -Search history.

Maximus Alexander

Jack1985 wrote: »

And she's only coming forward with this now because???

Almost half of the article is directly addressing that question:

Although the couple arrived in Phuket on 10 March, Tee did not alert authorities to the sighting at the time as she had been experiencing marital problems and feared being mistaken.

"So when we hit land everyone was talking about the missing plane and asking if we'd seen anything," she explained. "Since I doubted what I saw and was emotionally in a bad way, I brushed over what I thought I'd seen."

However after seeing a report last weekend that a Chinese ship involved in the ongoing search for the jet in the southern Indian Ocean had developed technical problems, she and her husband began to review their sailing logs.

"That is when we checked our GPS log and realised that perhaps I really did see it," Tee said, as quoted by the Times.

The couple discovered that their yacht was in the vicinity of one of MH370's projected flight paths on the night it disappeared while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

"This is what convinced me to file a report with the full track data for our voyage to the relevant authorities," Tee said.e said.

NipNip

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/unprecedented-disappearance-of-aircraft-as-13-planes-vanish-from-radar-30352786.html

Tenger

NipNip wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/unprecedented-disappearance-of-aircraft-as-13-planes-vanish-from-radar-30352786.html

Not directly related to MH370.
Temporary radar glitches/problems do not compare to an airliner missing for months.

the_monkey

Horizon in BBC2 tomorrow night is about MH370 .

Mick55

Flight MH370 crash site 'yet to be explored'

The most likely crash site of the missing Malaysian Airlines jet has yet to be searched, a UK satellite company has claimed.

Hourly electronic connections received by telecommunications experts Inmarsat revealed that the Boeing 777 airliner had to have come down in the southern Indian Ocean.

Scientists from the company told the BBC's Horizon programme they had calculated the plane's most likely flight path to a "hotspot" on the ocean floor.

But an Australian search vessel, the Ocean Shield, never reached the site because it picked up other signals some distance away, thought to be from the plane's flight recorders.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0617/624371-missing-malaysian-airlines-plane/

Peppa Pig

Captain named as prime suspect as flight plan to remote island in Indian Ocean found on his simulator.
Indo

Sources close to the investigation confirmed that a deleted flight path had been recovered from Capt Zaharie's simulator which had been used to practice landing an aircraft on a small runway on an unnamed island in the far southern Indian Ocean.

stevedublin

there must be a limited number of islands with a runway in the Southern Indian Ocean. Also, the island would presumably have mobile phone coverage as many phones were in range for days after flight disappeared.

Synode

stevedublin wrote: »

Also, the island would presumably have mobile phone coverage as many phones were in range for days after flight disappeared.

What?

homerjay2005

Whats the longest a commercial plane has went missing for before this i wonder? its very very strange that no one bit of debris has been found.

stevedublin wrote: »

there must be a limited number of islands with a runway in the Southern Indian Ocean. Also, the island would presumably have mobile phone coverage as many phones were in range for days after flight disappeared.

you wouldnt need a runway though would you, you could land a plane of that size in the phoenix park for example.

its all hearsay though, this plane didnt land anywhere except in the bottom of the sea.

L1011

stevedublin wrote: »

as many phones were in range for days after flight disappeared.

No, they weren't.

Fred Swanson

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homerjay2005

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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thats just two lads robbing a plane!

lord lucan

stevedublin wrote: »

there must be a limited number of islands with a runway in the Southern Indian Ocean. Also, the island would presumably have mobile phone coverage as many phones were in range for days after flight disappeared.

This is the thread for updates only, any discussion and speculation is to go in the other MH370 thread specifically for that purpose.

Thrill

Australia to hire private contractor to search for MH370.

The operation, which the ATSB says is likely to begin in early September and will last up to a year, will include a number of underwater vehicles that will slowly scan some 60,000 square kilometers (23,000 square miles) of the southern Indian Ocean, looking for any sign of aircraft debris.


It's not yet clear exactly how the deep-sea search, which Australia has estimated will cost $56 million, will play out. While the ATSB has developed the overall search strategy, the independent contractor will be responsible for day-to-day operations in the search zone.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/05/world/asia/australia-malaysia-airlines-mh370/index.html?sr=tw080514malaysiasearch930aStoryGalPhoto

Synode

I'd ask you to tell us why you believe they're not but I honestly couldn't care less

Thrill

Indian Ocean search for missing plane refined

Australia says the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will focus on the southern part of the search area in the Indian Ocean.

Officials said further refinement of satellite data found the plane may have turned south earlier than thought.

The announcement came as Australia and Malaysia signed an agreement on the search's next phase, which will see the two countries sharing costs

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28962994

feargale

What's a hotspot on the ocean floor?

Thrill

After a four month break the search for MH370 is set to resume.

The GO Phoenix, the first of three ships that will spend up to a year hunting for the wreckage far off Australia's west coast, is expected to arrive in the search zone Sunday, though weather could delay its progress.

Crews will use sonar, video cameras and jet fuel sensors to scour the water for any trace of the Boeing 777.

http://www.newsday.com/news/world/hunt-for-malasyia-flight-airlines-370-to-resume-1.9465960

thomasj

Search called off and declared an accident

http://m.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31039460

Wicklowleaid

thomasj wrote: »

Search called off and declared an accident

http://m.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31039460

Eh where have you got that the search has been called off from??

Joeseph Balls

thomasj wrote: »

Search called off and declared an accident

http://m.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31039460

Did you read it?

Officials said that the recovery operation is ongoing but that the 239 people onboard are now presumed dead.

Growler!!!

Wicklowleaid wrote: »

Eh where have you got that the search has been called off from??

Joeseph Balls wrote: »

Did you read it?

The story has been updated at least 3 times since thomasj posted the link. It originally only had a one line statement. They have now updated it with additional info and a pic.

thomasj

Sorry, Their original article which has changed since said it was called off.

Much more clearer now with the additional information

Wicklowleaid

Yea cos that guardian article you just posted didn't say the search had been called off either. It said the SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS has officially called off but the underwater search continues. Two very different things.... Hopefully this brings some small bit of closure to the families

Happyman42

Well, at least it will put an end to the conspiracy theories.

lord lucan

Can we please keep discussion and speculation to the relevant thread and leave this one for updates only. Relevant thread below,I'm deleting anything not applicable to this thread.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=89355461

the_monkey

They will double the search area if nothing is found in the current one (about 40% left to scour)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32331650

MH370 search area could be extended

The search area for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will be doubled if nothing is found in the current search zone, officials say.
The announcement came from Australian, Malaysian and Chinese ministers meeting to discuss progress.
The plane, flying from the Malaysian capital to Beijing, disappeared on 8 March 2014 with 239 people on board.
It is believed to have crashed off Western Australia, but so far no trace has been found.
At the moment teams using sophisticated sonar equipment are scouring a 60,000 sq km (23,000 sq mile) area of seabed far west of the Australian city of Perth. About 40% of this remains to be searched.
If nothing is found, the search will be extended by another 60,000 sq km to "cover the entire highest probability area identified by expert analysis", a joint statement from the ministers said.
The additional search area could take up to a year to complete given adverse weather conditions in the upcoming winter months, the statement said.
Investigators still do not know what happened to the plane.
The search zone has been defined based on analysis of hourly "handshakes" between the plane and a communications satellite.
There is still no explanation as to why it flew so far off course - making finding the plane and its "black box" voice recorders key to understanding its fate.
"We are confident we are searching in the right area,'' Australian Transport Minister Warren Truss told journalists after the meeting.
"We are confident we have the best search equipment... if the plane is in the area we will find it.''
The search for Flight MH370

• Search vessels are focused on a 60,000 sq km (23,166 sq m) priority zone; more than 60% of the area has been scoured to date

• Cost of A$120m (£61m; US$93m) has been jointly funded by Australia and Malaysia

How the search is conducted

drdeadlift

Any news on this?
After af447 went down i read that some form of debris would wash up within three weeks irrigardless of which ocean/part of it went down.Anyway this didnt happen

murphaph

drdeadlift wrote: »

Any news on this?
After af447 went down i read that some form of debris would wash up within three weeks irrigardless of which ocean/part of it went down.Anyway this didnt happen

Where did you read that? Doesn't sound remotely plausible and even if there was some 3 week rule of the sea, someone would need to find the washed ashore wreckage and recognise it for what it is.

tom_k

500 days missing now with approximately 50% of search area covered.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/days-into-mh370-search-and-still-nothing-found/story-fnizu68q-1227449731090