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.
That sounds like the sort of thing a UKIP candidate would sayNo, Nik Nak works as a waiter in my local curry house.
Found that, I sat on the thing.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?
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).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?
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.
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.
It has taken, what, how long to get this far??
Another few weeks isn't going to hurt!
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.