For people (Me included) who are wondering why search boats are so... *slow*..

THIS is the indian ocean...

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/6590707/015d1f7e/bootcam_filmt_zoektocht_op_indische_oceaan.html

To Jim's point the largest debris they found to date visually was a whale carcas..

Hey! Did anyone see the direction of the currents?

 

The RNZAF P3 Orion dropped a datum marker buoy to track the movement of the material.

 

AMSA Update Release 11, 23 MAR 2014: 12.30am (AEDT)

Discuss all you want with technical failure scenarios, but having the transponder turned off when switching comms between KL (Shouldn't they be talking to Singapore instead? It's their FIR) and Saigon ATC is simply too convenient for any sudden failure. I mean how long does it take to switch frequencies on the comm panel and start talking again? 30 seconds max? The 777 is simply too reliable and this smacks of deliberate action. If someone wanted MH370 to disappear, this would be the time to do it.

About what Jim said in 825, and we're having a problem in Brazil with a small plane that crashed in the Amazon forest, our Air Force is using the Orion search and Orion solves, but yesterday something bad happened, the Air Force found a object hidden under trees, but it was not the plane they were looking for, found an aircraft that it was already more than 10 years at the time the pilot was rescued.
We made the mistake of spreading the news before confirmation, has caused great frustration to relatives of those involved, especially for the family of a nurse who could tell by mobile message the emergency situation shortly before the fall.

 

João Alfredo

Discuss all you want with technical failure scenarios, but having the transponder turned off when switching comms between KL (Shouldn't they be talking to Singapore instead? It's their FIR) and Saigon ATC is simply too convenient for any sudden failure. I mean how long does it take to switch frequencies on the comm panel and start talking again? 30 seconds max? The 777 is simply too reliable and this smacks of deliberate action. If someone wanted MH370 to disappear, this would be the time to do it.

Are you sure? They would have gone slightly North of the Singapore FIR.

For people (Me included) who are wondering why search boats are so... *slow*..

THIS is the indian ocean...

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/6590707/015d1f7e/bootcam_filmt_zoektocht_op_indische_oceaan.html

How could you retrieve debris even if you spotted it in those conditions?  

For people (Me included) who are wondering why search boats are so... *slow*..

THIS is the indian ocean...

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/6590707/015d1f7e/bootcam_filmt_zoektocht_op_indische_oceaan.html

 

thanks brilliant thanks for that.. makes you feel sick just looking at it

Don't know if this has been posted before-----

 

http://sofrep.com/34084/alright-goodnight-malaysia-want-know-happened-flight-mh-370/

How could you retrieve debris even if you spotted it in those conditions?  

An interview in Beijing with a spokesman for relatives of FL370 passengers, also seemed to hotly criticize searchers for looking in the Indian Ocean- implying that searching should be directed to those locations where there might possibly be survivors.

(As opposed to searching where the plane "probably" went down.)

That is- search for people- not downed airplanes!

An interesting cultural difference in thinking perhaps?

january

I have tried to keep an open mind about MH370. It has been hard to do, because at every turn this mystery takes,it changes my thought process to what I personally think  happened.

 

But, at every turn, I keep thinking a suicide mission. It bothers me that i think that the Captain of MH370, who is highly respected, including the airline he fly's for, would do such a thing.

Was it the phone call before he boarded ? Was it the fact that on this flight, he was hooked up with an inexperienced Co Pilot ? Being with an inexperienced Co Pilot, was that a good time to carry out his mission, if I may put it so crudely.

If he was teamed up  with a more capable experienced CP, would he have carried it out ? If he did do such a terrible thing

 

It is the phone call that bothers me. Why ? because I have this feeling that it was his mistress, and it was not good news. But unless they find this mystery woman, I can only guess what the call was about. And  why has she not come forward ?

 

 

And why has she not come forward ?

 

It could be a simple as not wanting a confrontation with the pilot's wife / family.

 

She will come under intense police and media scrutiny should she be i.d.'d.

 

 

It could be a simple as not wanting a confrontation with the pilot's wife / family.

Yes, that is an angle i did not think of.

And  why has she not come forward ?

 

And remember we are also talking about a culture that doesn't look too kindly on adultery, on top of those other things just mentioned. 

 

Adultery is against the law in Malaysia and they still cane as a punishment (or at least I can find a few articles reporting this but it seems to be a complicated issue)

What happens to any insurance claim by MAS for the 777,if it was due to pilot suicide? Does it nullify a claim or is it covered? Curious if MAS would have any reason to cover up a pilot suicide other than to deny blame... Don't know if there is anything in airplane insurance fine print. Can a real pilot check the glovebox for their insurance card please