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Authorities Call Off Aerial Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 - Hunt for Missing Plane to Continue Underwater
Officials announced a major change in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Monday that will include a halt in the aerial searches that has gone on since early March. Australian Prime Minister announced the plans in a news conference. “"I regret to say that thus far none of our efforts in the air, on the surface or under sea, have found any wreckage,” he said. The next phase of the search will be a more intensive underwater search and will involve the use of private contractors, he… (www.frequentbusinesstraveler.com) Plus d'info...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Someone knows where it is, and why. This whole thing is on the bugle. Why would MAS wait four hours when one of their aircraft went missing? Any other country would be doing a backflip, if it was one of theirs.
I have been saying from the beginning that they should be looking for the (stolen) aircraft on land, starting in southeast Asia. I still stand by that.
I have to wonder if those Emergency boxes weren't dumped in the ocean to give the appearance of a crash site, and 3 mile deep water should have crushed a airplane hull so debris should be visible at the crash site, along with fluids inside engines etc. Nothing, tells me that airplane is probably somewhere else and a 777 on a ramp are not uncommon or in hangers at airports like Tehran or Mashhad or any number of airports in the ME. Only an aircrew would recognize a specific airplane even setting in the open. The next question is who has the resources to pull something like this off.
Islamics.
The only thing detected was a signal apparently from a beacon just a few inches in size of the type that is attached to a flight data recorder. The signal (if it was from such a beacon, other possibilities have been suggested) does not mean that a data recorder was attached to it, or that it was attached to an aircraft.
You seem to forget that Air France flight 447 went to the seabed at 13000' and the pressure did not crush the hull. Openings in the hull provide the means for water to enter and thus equalize the pressure. SAR teams recovered bodies from the hull of AF447 that were identifiable.
You're living in la-la land if you think you can just fly into any airport out of the blue, un-announced, with a 250 tonne aircraft - and no-one asks any questions.
We're talking about the most highly regulated industry in the world, with the most intensely-watched equipment. Millions of spotters are always watching, let alone the people working in the industry, controlling all the aircraft.
Even the size of runway required for a B777 puts a very large number of airstrips out of the picture.
The only way you can completely lose a big aircraft is in the vastness of the ocean.
People talk of crashes in the Himalayas and other remote places. It's incredible how many people are spread around the Earth, and even in remote places, there are still tribespeople people who see things happen.
You're living in la-la land if you think you can just fly into any airport out of the blue, un-announced, with a 250 tonne aircraft - and no-one asks any questions.
We're talking about the most highly regulated industry in the world, with the most intensely-watched equipment. Millions of spotters are always watching, let alone the people working in the industry, controlling all the aircraft.
Even the size of runway required for a B777 puts a very large number of airstrips out of the picture.
The only way you can completely lose a big aircraft is in the vastness of the ocean.
People talk of crashes in the Himalayas and other remote places. It's incredible how many people are spread around the Earth, and even in remote places, there are still tribespeople people who see things happen.