Timing makes sense. I think:banghead:
"Thinking of re-directing assets to verify". This is baffling.
If they don't trust the Chinese SAR...then why are they even there?
It appears as though those are international waters and anyone can be there.
Timing makes sense. I think:banghead:
"Thinking of re-directing assets to verify". This is baffling.
If they don't trust the Chinese SAR...then why are they even there?
If it is, then it brings up why Australia or the US didn't detected it. You would think with all the technology down there, as well as *cough* Pine Gap *cough*, that they would have detected the plane.
My understanding is that all the participating countries are reporting to the Joint Agency EXCEPT China, which reports to Beijing, which then reports to the joint agency.
It appears as though those are international waters and anyone can be there.
On Thursday, when we waited all day for BIG news, there was also a mention of a ship headed to a specific location. There was never an update on that. I wonder if this is related.
"A British Royal Navy survey ship, HMS Echo, will be conducting a specific search on Friday, a spokesperson for the Australian Defence Force told CNN."
http://wqad.com/2014/04/03/flight-370-ships-approach-search-area-amid-hope-of-new-leads/
China's Liberation Daily reported that three people on board had heard the signals, which were not recorded as they came suddenly.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26902127
Seriously..... not recording what they hear. I am not buying it. It's my opinion it's a tactic to keep looking. jmo idk
OMG what if that "big news" was actually supposed to be THIS ping news??????? OMGGGGGGGG.
That would make a lot of sense. This actually is BIIIGGG news.
Maybe it has take a couple of days to verify/double-check/communicate between the countries (china, malaysia, and australia)?
Maybe Australia was going to hold the presser to announce it (kinda like they did with the satellite debris images), but then Malaysia asked them not to before they were able to double-check/verify everything?
That's why the BIG news ended up being small news?
Who knows for how long all of this has played out behind the scenes?
We are just getting word of it now.
OMG what if that "big news" was actually supposed to be THIS ping news??????? OMGGGGGGGG.
That would make a lot of sense. This actually is BIIIGGG news.
Maybe it has take a couple of days to verify/double-check/communicate between the countries (china, malaysia, and australia)?
Maybe Australia was going to hold the presser to announce it (kinda like they did with the satellite debris images), but then Malaysia asked them not to before they were able to double-check/verify everything?
That's why the BIG news ended up being small news?
Who knows for how long all of this has played out behind the scenes?
We are just getting word of it now.
On Saturday, Australian officials coordinating operations from Perth said 10 military planes, three civil jets and 11 ships were participating in the search over an area of about 84,000 square miles.
It was not immediately clear whether Chinas patrol ship Haixun 01 was counted among those 11 ships, and Australian search coordinators have made no mention that any Chinese vessel participating in the search was equipped with a black-box pinger detector. Photos carried by Chinese press showed Chinese searchers in a small vessel lowered from the Haixun using a hand-held commercial pinger detector.
The command center spokesman would not discuss why Australian officials had made no mention that a Chinese ship also carried a pinger detector.
http://www.latimes.com/world/worldn...-pulse-20140405,0,1253191.story#ixzz2y1xZRCOm
Here are some pictures of the Chinese with their own black box pinger detector:
http://www.jfdaily.com/shouye/focus/201404/t20140405_234374.html
bbm
:chillout:
You stop that right now!
No getting excited. Not yet! LOL.
But if Australia knew about it on Thursday, why didn't they send a plane or boat at that time????? I mean, they are not even saying for sure they will send a ship/plane today. Like WTF??
Could be that was the last minute and a half left left on the pinger battery, considering less than acceptable maintenance and storage of the devices.