Malaysia airlines 370 with 239 people on board, 8 March 2014 #25

[ilovepierre]

I wonder what would get in the plane if it's still together? The plane should be pretty tightly sealed unless windows broke from pressure as it sunk. I have no experience with planes under water so I don't know.

I would assume the metal parts of the plane would eventually erode away.
That could be one way something could get in.
JMO

 

[watcher9]

Since a piece of the inner wall has been found and identified, the cabin where the passengers would be was probably open before or as it sank.

 

[Roselvr]

Since a piece of the inner wall has been found and identified, the cabin where the passengers would be was probably open before or as it sank.

Totally forgot about that piece being found. I guess the reality of recovered remains is slim to none.

Every time I see the thread get bumped I hope it will be good news. I know how I feel; I can't imagine how stressed family and friends are; especially as we near the end of the search. They need a miracle, I hope they get one.

 

[Nocgirl]

Whats the latest on all the debris found the past couple weeks? Is it linked to MH370?

 

[watcher9]

July 12, 2016 weekly update -

Ongoing poor weather conditions continue and the forecast is for more of the same.

Weather conditions are forecast to be very poor with gale to storm force winds expected over the coming week which will likely cause disruption to search operations.

https://www.atsb.gov.au/mh370-pages/updates/operational-update/

 

[Nocgirl]

I am still flabbergasted that a 777 can disappear like this with no major pieces found. Where is the fuselage and the bodies? Seat cushions? So many questions.

 

[watcher9]

Whats the latest on all the debris found the past couple weeks? Is it linked to MH370?

According to this article, apparently no one has even bothered to pick up the recently found debris, let only examine it, and frustrated relatives are upset about it.

The Australian Transport Safety Board told the BBC: "Australia is leading the underwater search for MH370 but it is Malaysia, as the investigating body, that retains authority for coordinating the examination of debris."

This same article also has pictures, descriptions and location of identified debris.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36791241

 

[watcher9]

The big piece of debris found on the coast of Pemba Island near Tanzanisa and thought to be a wing flap has finally arrived in Australia for examination by the ATSB.

http://www.ibtimes.com/flight-mh370...mba-island-arrives-australia-analysis-2392347

 

[watcher9]

It looks like Mr Gibson brought some of the items to Malaysia himself, citing he was coming for a conference anyway. It is unclear if the pictures included in this article were of the items he turned over. Putrajaya is a city in Malaysia.

Also in the article was mention of a scheduled meeting to discuss the continuing of the search.

US lawyer-turned-adventurer Blaine Gibson handed over debris he suspects could have come from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to officials in Putrajaya on Tuesday (Jul 19).
and
Ministers from Malaysia, China and Australia are meeting in Putrajaya on Friday (Jul 22) and are expected to decide whether the search should continue.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/possible-mh370-personal/2968200.html

 

[watcher9]

Weekly update - July 20, 2016

The suspected wing flap has arrived in Australia for examination and different pictures of it are in the article. It looks huge.
Finally, weather conditions are forecast to improve this next week and then searching may begin again.

https://www.atsb.gov.au/mh370-pages/updates/operational-update/

 

[Xara]

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mi...y-have-been-looking-wrong-place-fugro-n613896

 

[Roselvr]

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mi...y-have-been-looking-wrong-place-fugro-n613896

WOW -
Missing MH370: We May Have Been Looking in Wrong Place, Fugro Says - by Reuters

Experts at the company leading the underwater hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 say they believe the plane may have glided down rather than dived in the final moments, meaning they may have been scouring the wrong patch of ocean for two years.

Searchers led by engineering group Fugro have been battling rough seas to comb an area of ocean floor the size of Pennsylvania.

But with their mission almost complete, nothing has been found.

Their mission is expected to end in three months and the entire search effort could be called off after that following a meeting of key countries Malaysia, China and Australia Friday.

"If it's not there, it means it's somewhere else," Fugro project director Paul Kennedy told Reuters.

While Kennedy does not exclude extreme possibilities that could have made the plane impossible to spot in the search zone, he and his team argue a more likely option is the plane glided down and crashed beyond the area originally marked out by calculations from satellite images.

"If it was manned, it could glide for a long way," Kennedy said. "You could glide it for further than our search area is, so I believe the logical conclusion will be well maybe that is the other scenario."

Doubts that the search teams are looking in the right place will likely fuel calls for all data to be made publicly available so that academics and rival companies can pursue an "open source" solution — a collaborative public answer to the airline industry's greatest mystery.

Fugro's controlled glide hypothesis is also the first time officials have given some support to contested theories that someone was in control during the flight's final moments.

For the aircraft to continue gliding after fuel has run out, someone must manually put the aircraft into a glide — nose down with controlled speed.

"If you lose all power, the auto-pilot kicks out. If there is nobody at the controls, the aircraft will plummet down," said a captain with experience flying Boeing 777s.

 

[mommylicious]

WOW -
Missing MH370: We May Have Been Looking in Wrong Place, Fugro Says - by Reuters

That's what some of us have been questioning for a while now. So sad that this close to the end of the search they're saying it may have gone in elsewhere, without any plans to look there. I understand that resources are limited and am glad they've devoted as much to the search as they have... It just has to be hard for the families to hear something like this.

 

[SouthAussie]

Tonight it is all over our media that the search is definitely ending after they finish the last 10,000 sq km - which should be by December, considering the weather and equipment delays. They will talk about resuming a search should any definitive data about the plane's whereabouts arise.
Our transport minister says it is just not viable to continue like this. Almost 180,000 million Aussie dollars (not all from Australia) has been spent on the search so far, with no result.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-...pended-if-current-search-unsuccessful/7653216
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36863527

 

[SouthAussie]

Whats the latest on all the debris found the past couple weeks? Is it linked to MH370?

I just read an interesting little piece in an article that said that MH370 is the only missing 777 in the world. Something I never really thought about before. So it seems that anything identified as definitely coming from a 777 will have come from MH370.
In the presser today, our Transport Minister said that analysis of the debris will continue.


However, a few pieces of debris confirmed to be from a Boeing 777 have washed up on various islands thousands of miles from the search zone. MH370 is the only missing Boeing 777 in the world.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36863527

 

[Roselvr]

That's what some of us have been questioning for a while now. So sad that this close to the end of the search they're saying it may have gone in elsewhere, without any plans to look there. I understand that resources are limited and am glad they've devoted as much to the search as they have... It just has to be hard for the families to hear something like this.

I'm sure it's the most painful words they've heard after finding out the plane is missing. They raised money a few years ago, It wasn't much, I wonder what happened to it. If they do more crowd funding maybe they can raise money.

Tonight it is all over our media that the search is definitely ending after they finish the last 10,000 sq km - which should be by December, considering the weather and equipment delays. They will talk about resuming a search should any definitive data about the plane's whereabouts arise.
Our transport minister says it is just not viable to continue like this. Almost 180,000 million Aussie dollars (not all from Australia) has been spent on the search so far, with no result.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-...pended-if-current-search-unsuccessful/7653216
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36863527

I'm not surprised. At some point reality had to set in when the other plane went down in the water. They gave it their best shot after reviewing the only data they had. I'm sure they've picked their words carefully on stopping and suspending.

 

[watcher9]

According to this article, money wasn't the issue. It looks like they just don't know where to look next.

"This does not mean we have given up on looking for MH370," Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said at a press conference Friday.
Malaysian, Chinese and Australian authorities said they want to see if there is other new information that could help them locate the missing aircraft.
...Liow said that cost was not a factor in the decision to suspend the hunt.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/22/asia/mh370-search-suspended/

 

[Nocgirl]

I really do not get why AUS has been burdened with much of the cost. It should be Malaysia and China but we all now how China is, they just don't care. In a country of over 1 billion people that don't care about 153 citizens that went down with the plane.

Malaysia should be footing most of the bill.

 

[Nocgirl]

It is so creepy to think this jet could have been manned and glided. Wow. That tells me something sinister happened on board. I think one of the pilot was up to something anyways, Honestly though if it was out of fuel and glided how far can the jet go? A few miles? Would that really make much of a difference?

WOW -
Missing MH370: We May Have Been Looking in Wrong Place, Fugro Says - by Reuters

 

[gregjrichards]

It is so creepy to think this jet could have been manned and glided. Wow. That tells me something sinister happened on board. I think one of the pilot was up to something anyways, Honestly though if it was out of fuel and glided how far can the jet go? A few miles? Would that really make much of a difference?

This is a terrible tragedy we most likely will never have the answers to numerous questions. I feel so sorry for the 239 families it must be devastating. The only good that can come of it is that everything possible needs to be done to prevent a plane's transponder being turned off and subsequently disappearing into the sea at an unknown location.