Malaysia airlines B777 missing

[NeonSamurai]

I think only if the debris started from the blue area. If it started in the green area it would take 12-18 months, and in pink area 6-12 months, for it to reach the island. The map appears to assume the plane crashed in the blue area and projects where it could go from there and how long it could spend in each colored zone.

If I remember correctly the search location for the plane is in the pink/green area.

[August]

Originally Posted by NeonSamurai

I think only if the debris started from the blue area. If it started in the green area it would take 12-18 months, and in pink area 6-12 months, for it to reach the island. The map appears to assume the plane crashed in the blue area and projects where it could go from there and how long it could spend in each colored zone.

If I remember correctly the search location for the plane is in the pink/green area.

I think the starting point is that square box at the extreme western edge of the blue area.

[Torplexed]

However many parts are found washed up in flotsam, retracing their drift can only point to the same general area of the ocean where flight reconstruction said it had gone down. And that is still a mighty large area. It gains little in finding the wreckage or the flight recorders. But this must confirm to anyone suspecting conspiracy, and the poor families of passengers, that the plane really did go down in the Indian Ocean, and isn't concealed in some hidden under-mountain hanger.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

But this must confirm to anyone suspecting conspiracy, and the poor families of passengers, that the plane really did go down in the Indian Ocean, and isn't concealed in some hidden under-mountain hanger.

Oh, the conspiracy lot will just say that they smashed a section of aircraft off and dropped it in the ocean to fool people. Never underestimate the leaps that some people are willing to make in pursuit of a good tale.

[NeonSamurai]

Originally Posted by August

I think the starting point is that square box at the extreme western edge of the blue area.

Yes I believe your right. But that is not where the search area is. The search area is in the northern part of the green region almost due West of Perth. If the belief that the plane landed in that area is true, then its reasonable for that discovered part to have reached Ascension in 12-18 months, assuming the map is accurate.

Of course the part may have nothing to do with this flight to begin with.

[Torplexed]

As if there was much doubt remaining it looks like the debris is confirmed as from Flight 370.

[Jimbuna]

I don't see this as any form of closure for the families other than confirmation the plane came down in the Indian Ocean.

[CCIP]

So now that French investigators officially confirmed that the flaperon part is from MH370, its condition may suggest something disturbing about how the flight ended up in the ocean: http://www.inquisitr.com/2391902/mal...-plane-landed/

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by CCIP

So now that French investigators officially confirmed that the flaperon part is from MH370, its condition may suggest something disturbing about how the flight ended up in the ocean: http://www.inquisitr.com/2391902/mal...-plane-landed/

If it did land intact in the ocean then why didn't they deploy rafts? I mean it wouldn't have sunk immediately, even in rough seas.
One can only hope that this theory is incorrect and that the passengers were already dead by the time it hit the water.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

My worst case scenario is that Zaharie Ahmed Shah, the pilot or Fariq Ab Hamid, the first officer "put his faith in God" as with Egypt Air's first officer a few years back and commandeered his own aircraft during the toilet break of the other officer in a copycat takeover, flown for hours, out over the Indian Ocean then ditched with all aboard. I'm not seeing how the phones would be collected in a depressure situation by any of the cockpit crew. I know the cockpit has it's own separate oxygen supply from the cabin overhead deploy masks. Further investigation of the cockpit crew would be useful perhaps... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/16/duncancampbell

http://www.theweek.co.uk/mh370/57641/mh370-plane-was-deliberately-flown-into-sea-says-investigator

The rogue pilot theory holds that somebody at MH370’s controls could have glided the aircraft for up to a hundred miles once the fuel ran out, well beyond the boundaries of the search zone, which is already almost the size of England.
Is is also believed that the Australian officials are not limiting the potential rogue pilots to the two Malaysia Airlines flight crew flying MH370, leaving open the possibility that a third individual entered the flight deck and took control.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/645028/Malaysia-Airlines-flight-MH370-deliberately-crashed-pilots-Australian-investigators

[Aktungbby]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1985825/captains-bathroom-visit-could-have-doomed-malaysia-airlines-flight-when-cabin-pressure-failure-hit/ A large piece of debris found in Tanzania has been confirmed as a part of a wing flap from missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet MH370 !

[Aktungbby]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/18/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-australia-says-cost-didnt-force-suspension-of-search

Australia’s transport minister has said cost was not a factor in the suspension of the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and any decision to renew an underwater effort rests primarily with the Malaysian government.
Darren Chester and his counterparts in Malaysia and China announced the decision to suspend efforts to find the plane in a tripartite announcement on Tuesday afternoon, after the completion of the search of a 120,000 sq km area in the southern Indian Ocean.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau had been searching that area – a remote expanse of ocean west of Perth, with waves sometimes between 15 and 20 metres and depths of up to 6km – for nearly two and a half years.
Relatives say more funds should be put into the hunt as ‘planes cannot just be allowed to disappear without a trace’
At a press conference in Melbourne on Wednesday morning, Chester said the ATSB’s mission was at the “cutting edge of science and technology, and tested the limit of human endeavour in a very inhospitable part of the world”.
The decision to suspend the search had not been taken lightly by the governments involved, Chester said, but was consistent with the tripartite resolution in July last year that any extension would depend on “credible new evidence” pointing to the “specific location” of the plane.

[Jimbuna]

Could well be the case that the relatives who lost loved ones will never see closure now.

[August]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Could well be the case that the relatives who lost loved ones will never see closure now.

Could be Jim, but never is a long time. That jet is still out there somewhere and we keep inventing new mapping and searching gadgets that could eventually find it, even if by accident.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by August

Could be Jim, but never is a long time. That jet is still out there somewhere and we keep inventing new mapping and searching gadgets that could eventually find it, even if by accident.

Yes, hopefully one day.