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re: Official Thread: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Posted on 4/6/14 at 11:41 pm to slapahoe
Posted on 4/6/14 at 11:41 pm to slapahoe
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN) -- Investigators searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have their "most promising" lead yet after a pinger locator detected signals consistent with those emitted by aircraft black boxes, the head of the Joint Agency Coordination Center said Monday.
But it could take days before officials can confirm whether the signals detected in the Indian Ocean were coming from the plane, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said.
"Nothing happens fast," the search official said.
Along with the hints that searchers may be getting close to the plane, a fresh mystery surfaced Sunday.
The aircraft skirted Indonesian airspace as it went off the grid and veered off course, a senior Malaysian government source told CNN.
The new analysis of the flight's path means the plane may have been taken along a route designed to avoid radar detection, the source said.
But why would someone steer the plane that way, and where is it now?.
Those are key questions that investigators are trying to answer -- and fast.
The HMS Echo, a British navy ship equipped with advanced detection gear, sailed into the area of the southern Indian Ocean on Monday morning (Sunday afternoon ET) where a Chinese crew had detected two audio signals.
And an Australian navy vessel carrying sophisticated U.S. listening technology is investigating a sound it picked up in a different patch of the ocean.
Investigators hope the signals could be locator beacons from the plane's data recorders, but they're not sure yet.
Time could be running out. It might be only a few hours or a few days before the pingers aboard the plane stop transmitting for good.
The batteries inside the beacons, which are designed to start sending signals when a plane crashes into water, last about 30 days after the devices are activated.
That 30th day has come -- though experts have said it's possible that they could last several days longer if they were at their full strength
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Posted on 4/6/14 at 11:42 pm to tiger713
its not 100% confirmed to be MA370, its just a very encouraging info/ hopeful sign on this "acoustic event"
Posted on 4/7/14 at 12:06 am to tiger713
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its not 100% confirmed
Just 99.9%. This is it.
This post was edited on 4/7/14 at 12:08 am
Posted on 4/7/14 at 7:37 am to Smalls
Bump for morning crowd
Posted on 4/7/14 at 7:54 am to Smalls
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Just 99.9%. This is it.
Oh yeah? Which one is it then? The Australians are picking up some noise in a different patch of the ocean. You should go work for the media.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 8:47 am to chalupa
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Yahoo.com Article- Possible signals from lost jet's black boxes heard
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Underwater sounds detected by a ship searching the southern Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet are consistent with the pings from aircraft black boxes, an Australian official said Monday, dubbing it "a most promising lead" in the monthlong hunt for the vanished plane.
The Australian navy's Ocean Shield, which is carrying high-tech sound detectors from the U.S. Navy, picked up two separate signals late Saturday night and early Sunday morning within a remote patch of the Indian Ocean far off the west Australian coast that search crews have been crisscrossing for weeks. The first signal lasted two hours and 20 minutes before it was lost. The ship then turned around and picked up a signal again — this time recording two distinct "pinger returns" that lasted 13 minutes, Houston said.
The airliner's black boxes normally emit a frequency of 37.5 kilohertz, and the signals picked up by the Ocean Shield were both 33.3 kilohertz, said U.S. Navy Capt. Mark Matthews. But officials contacted the device's manufacturer and were told the frequency of black boxes can drift near the end of their shelf lives.
The Ocean Shield was slowly canvassing a small area trying to find the signal again, though that could take another day, Matthews said.
The ping locator is designed to detect signals at a range of 1.8 kilometers (1.12 miles), meaning it would need to be almost on top of the black boxes to detect them if they were on the ocean floor, which is about 4,500 meters (14,800 feet) deep.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 8:50 am to tiger713
This will probably turn out like all the other "breaking news"......sorry nothing here.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:35 am to tiger713
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its not 100% confirmed to be MA370, its just a very encouraging info/ hopeful sign on this "acoustic event"
MH370..
FIFY
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:38 am to Wtodd
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This will probably turn out like all the other "breaking news"......sorry nothing here.
sorry nothing here.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:56 am to Wtodd
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"breaking news"
CNN has certainly put all their eggs in one basket with these two words. I guess they are hoping that at least one egg won't be broken if and when the plane is found.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 11:00 am to Homesick Tiger
I've been watching CNN pretty often since this thing went missing. They can't go a commercial break without saying, " Hi, so and so here on CNN and we bring to you some breaking news on the mystery of Flight 370" or "More breaking news that may be best lead yet on the mystery of Flight 370, when we return".
Posted on 4/8/14 at 12:09 pm to Camo Tiger 337
Update -- *** 4/8/2014
LINK
So the pings turned up empty so far.
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No further pings from what may be the black box recorders of a missing Malaysia Airlines jet have been detected after a weekend of hopeful leads, as search teams "throw everything" into finding the aircraft before the black box batteries are expected to die, investigators have said.
The hunt for flight MH370, which disappeared from radar screens shortly after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur one month ago, has narrowed to about one-third of its original search size in an area of the southern Indian Ocean roughly 1,000 miles north-west of Perth, where the supposed pings were picked up over the weekend by an Australian vessel.
"We have at least several days of intense actions ahead of us," Australia's defence minister, David Johnston, said on Tuesday. "We're throwing everything at this difficult, complex task."
A US navy "pinger locator" on board Australia's Ocean Shield detected two signals on Sunday apparently consistent with black box locator pings, one for over two hours and the second for 13 minutes. Investigators described the signals as the best lead in the plane's hunt to date, which has been fraught with false leads and sightings of possible debris that later turned out to be unrelated to the missing aircraft.
But investigators are in a race against time as the batteries in the Boeing 777's black box beacons are already two days past their expected 30-day battery life. Although some batteries can continue on for longer, it is unknown just how much longer this aircraft's batteries might last.
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The search for MH370 is likely to go down as the most costly hunt in aviation history, with 26 countries deploying aircraft, submarines, vessels and satellites to the £26m investigation, according to Reuters. It is expected to cost at least twice as much as the search and recovery for Air France flight 447, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, the black boxes of which were only recovered two years later.
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So the pings turned up empty so far.
This post was edited on 4/8/14 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 4/8/14 at 12:23 pm to Napoleon
In 1986, they found a piston from a TBF Avenger and a leather aviator's boot in a tidal swamp off the coast of Florida, and were convinced they had found Flight 19. Turns out, the serial # on the piston didn't match any of the Avengers in Flight 19...in fact, it didn't match any TBF that had gone missing in Florida at all, ever.
Would be freaky if they recovered a black box and it turned out to NOT be from MH370, huh?
Would be freaky if they recovered a black box and it turned out to NOT be from MH370, huh?
This post was edited on 4/8/14 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 4/8/14 at 8:05 pm to Godfather1
That would be crazy.
Here is a site, with a scale of the depth of the black box based on the pings the other day.
LINK
Here is a site, with a scale of the depth of the black box based on the pings the other day.
LINK
Posted on 4/8/14 at 8:36 pm to Napoleon
That sucker's never coming up.
Posted on 4/8/14 at 8:42 pm to Camo Tiger 337
quote:CNN has become the 24 hour plane search network. I could paint that redhead victim family member from memory now. Are the producers banging her or something?
I've been watching CNN pretty often since this thing went missing. They can't go a commercial break without saying, " Hi, so and so here on CNN and we bring to you some breaking news on the mystery of Flight 370" or "More breaking news that may be best lead yet on the mystery of Flight 370, when we return".
Anything but talk about Russia, I guess.
Posted on 4/8/14 at 10:08 pm to Da Sheik
Bringing this back to top... Ocean Shield towed pinger locater picked up signal pings again yesterday. The location is getting refined quickly. Not yet to the point of deploying autonomous underwater vehicle.
Posted on 4/8/14 at 11:18 pm to OldHickory
There's been so many "breaking news" on finding out details of the whereabouts of the 777, we've all become numb to it.
And since none of it has led us 100% to the airliner, if and when something definitive is found, at first ill be skeptical of it.
And since none of it has led us 100% to the airliner, if and when something definitive is found, at first ill be skeptical of it.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 9:15 am to East Coast Band
these pings have been picked up right along the calculated path ('satellite handshake'), so far so good
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