re: Official Thread: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Camo


I think if they are "close" to the area then they will eventually find something....Didnt it take 2 years to retrieve pieces of Air France or whatever? They just need to keep getting the area "correct" then stick to that area...

Too deep for divers, obviously some kind of robotic equipment.

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IF, IF wreckage is found(Say a small piece of debris, spotted with eyes on a vessel). Ok say they find that; then what's the next step?

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I'm not sure if finding debris on the surface is really of any use due to the amount of time its been in the water (currents, storms pushing it around and such).

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What if they come back but this time with sonar, and detect something that has already sunken.

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I think they're still trying to pick up more pings to shrink the search area. After those batteries die the signal will be lost forever, so they want as much ping data as possible to narrow the search before using sonar to map the area they've determined the plane is in.

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So they get divers to go check it out; but how will they be able to retrieve it? Large pieces of debris in dark waters, how do they get it onto the ship for observation? I mean large as in a wing maybe, or something to large for divers to retrieve while underwater. What risks to human life are there? Sharks? Eels and rays? Water pressure?

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They'll have to use something like what James Cameron used to explore the Mariana trench. Some of those "vessels" or whatever you want to call them have arms and could possibly attach a series of cables to certain areas of the plane, then hope to reel it up to the surface. Cameron went to depths of almost 35,000 feet, and this plane is probably not even half that distance, so I'm sure it can be retrieved.