Missing from radar screen - One Boeing 777
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Apparently theIsland is the "end point" for several so that complicates even furtherA couple of drift pattern models (taken from the flight nerds of flyertalk):
When these parts are confirmed to be from MH370, I don't think it's really going to do much to narrow down the search area.
accountantpete
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Smurfy
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The term 'Searching for a needle in a haystack' doesn't do the situation justice. I wonder if there will be another serious effort to locate the flight recorders. How many square kms of ocean need to be scanned with sonar?
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That sounds like the sort of thing a UKIP candidate would say
classic33
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Found that, I sat on the thing.
The priority search area where satellite data suggests the plane is most likely to have gone down spans some 60,000 sq/km (23,000 sq/miles).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-31744032
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Why does it matter if they take a week or a fortnight to examinine the wreakage? The commonly expected instant 24 hour news reactions by the media and politicians seems to have become some kind of porn.In addition to the wing flap, it looks like they have now found an aircraft door washed up on Réunion.
The French are obviously in no hurry to get started on the investigation; "Investigators will begin work this Wednesday"! This after the part being given a Police escort to somewhere in Toulouse, and while the world waits for confirmation that the part is from MH370. It must be a French bank holiday weekend, or they are too busy burning tyres on a motorway somewhere in support of something.
Mad Doug Biker
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It has taken, what, how long to get this far??
Another few weeks isn't going to hurt!
Another few weeks isn't going to hurt!
Brandane
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It was being reported that there were serial numbers on each and every part of an aircraft, therefore you would have thought that it wouldn't be overly complicated to find someone who can scrape off some barnacles to read the serial number and then match it up to the number of the part fitted to MH370.
Obviously it IS more complicated than that, or they would have done just that.
My remarks were aimed more at the French and their militant ways of closing down the country completely whenever they have a bank holiday. Not so much a criticism BTW, I think it is a good thing that, for example, you will struggle to find a supermarket open on Sunday in France; and you will hardly ever see a French registered lorry turning a wheel on Sunday. In the case of MH370 though, it has had worldwide media coverage and people are waiting for answers. And yes, in these modern times of instant communications our expectations of getting information quickly have been raised.
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"According to the French prosecutor in Paris, the investigators’ conclusion remains only a “very strong presumption” based on Boeing’s confirmation that it was a 777, and “specific technical characteristics” communicated by the Malaysian Airlines engineers in Kuala Lumpur.
That seems to suggest no definitive serial numbers have been immediately found on the part, but it could potentially mean that some part of the maintenance regime over its years of service have left an identifying mark."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/05/mh370-debris-found-what-we-know
