Malaysia airlines plane may have crashed 239 people on board #11

[Marg from Oz]

Great news conference from canberra. Pity malaysia couldn't do something like this instead of their non information conferences.
Hope this is it now.

 

[04009margaret]

Stresses it's a long way off Australia's coastline
Expresses extreme caution, they want to get there, assess it
Aircraft to report GPS data on object location
The best lead we have so far
Doesn't want to speculate until they get there
Satellite image has a blob with an assessment of 24 metres against it
Imagery is not that precise
Working on providing imagery to media as soon as they can
Ships & aircraft from USA & New Zealand are joining the search
We will continue to search until we are convinced we cannot find them

 

[revampz]

have you seen the men there....? OMG

Can anyone bring up a map of where they are?

hahahaha but there not all Hugh Jackmans, or the Hensworth Brothers.....there are quite a lot that look like the guy from WOlf Creek too....especially around where I live!!!!

 

[Hatfield]

ANy of you that have been doing that crowd sourcing stuff can you do something

If we had GPS coordianates maybe even GOOGLE EARTH would let us see it if recent satellite images from Google.

 

[Forensics]

The water in the search location is several thousand metres deep.
Weather conditions are moderate in the southern Indian Ocean, but visibility is poor.

 

[Waddles]

Can't stop thinking of New Zealand passenger father of two Paul Weeks, who had moved with his family from NZ to Perth, was on his way to Beijing and then on to his dream job in Mongolia and to think the plane may have ended up in Perth waters!!

 

[CARIIS]

So............ it means : it is in the middle of the ocean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know this was answered by others but wanted to give my take.

IMO
A piece basically floating but waves and water going over the top at times. Kind of like if you threw a wooden oar from a canoe in the water.

 

[songline]

This is the real deal. They have found the plane. This was a very detailed
press conference. No more BS by Malaysia.

Hmm... the real deal???? and they are dancing around it like peacocks.
OK lets see, when they get some REAL information.

 

[gregjrichards]

Just a thought but this will absolutely bankrupt this airline.
No one will ever step on a plane by them again.

They may lose some customers in the beginning but Air France didn't go under after the AF447 crash. I think only the Airline for the plane in the Lockerbie bombing has gone under after an incident on one of their planes.

 

[Isabelle]

it is down several thousands metres....

Do you mean down under water?

 

[04009margaret]

Television channel 9 in Australia has a reporter on board the Orion aircraft that is part of the search

 

[IHAVENOCLUE]

Our Treasurer's name was Costello - prior to Abbot being PM :floorlaugh:

That's funnee!

 

[songline]

The water in the search location is several thousand metres deep.
Weather conditions are moderate in the southern Indian Ocean, but visibility is poor.

They have submarines don’t they?

 

[aa9511]

I know this was answered by others but wanted to give my take.

IMO
A piece basically floating but waves and water going over the top at times. Kind of like if you threw a wooden oar from a canoe in the water.

Sure sounds like a wing or a tail to me.

 

[Forensics]

That AMSA press conference has now wrapped up. Here's a few of the key points to emerge.
Commercial satellites have captured images of several large objects in the ocean off Western Australia.
The images were analysed this morning and thought to be credible enough to warrant a full-scale search by aircraft and ships for the objects in the belief they may be debris from missing flight MH370.
The objects are around 2500km south-west of Perth.
The largest of the objects is up to 24 metres long.
One RAAF aircraft is already at the location. A further three aircraft have been sent to the area, including a New Zealand Air Force Orion and a US Navy P8 Poseidon aircraft.
It is not unusual to see debris floating in the ocean. Containers are sometimes adrift after falling overboard, for instance.
There is no guarantee the objects are from the missing flight, but this is the best lead search authorities have had so far.
It is not known when the objects will be physically located.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/miss...tony-abbott-20140320-354xz.html#ixzz2wTZvwrJP

 

[MsFacetious]

Television channel 9 in Australia has a reporter on board the Orion aircraft that is part of the search

Is this the right channel? They are covering it live...

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2014/03/20/14/13/objects-found-in-malaysia-airlines-search

 

[kimi_SFC]

Reporter on KFI just stated the search area will cover 117,000 square miles. Did anyone catch that during the presser?

If that's the case, does that justify the amount of resources the Australians are sending to the search area?

It does to me, but I'm no expert. :moo:

http://www.kfiam640.com/main.html

 

[Leilei]

Can't stop thinking of New Zealand passenger father of two Paul Weeks, who had moved with his family from NZ to Perth, was on his way to Beijing and then on to his dream job in Mongolia and to think the plane may have ended up in Perth waters!!

Isn't he the passenger who left his wedding ring with his wife?

Oh my goodness

 

[04009margaret]

The 24 metre object appears to be surrounded by smaller debris

 

[Soulmagent]

Any one given any thought to the redirected satellites?