Air Malaysia missing.

If this search is a example of international cooperation, I hate to think how long it would take to have a plan put into action if a comet lines the Earth up as a bullseye.
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It's a very specialised bit of gear and requires a vessel appropriately equipped to tow it (v long cable). It's also something not required very often so there aren't heaps of them out there just sitting on a shelf....



Umm no. Many of those chemicals would no doubt be in sea water fro all sorts of reasons. Besides that even if it WERE theoretically possible it would require the sensor to be close and down-current to the wreck / parts of the wreck. Much much less likely than other methods available. As I say - even if it were possible.



There are numerous people fully engaged in doing exactly that. Looking at current patterns etc. Sadly without having a starting point as to where the flight actually hit the water, its not really possible to say where the floating wreckage would be. And as has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread there is extremely limited data (evidence) to even guess as the location of IF MH134 impacted the ocean.

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conspiracy theory coming on V8Ian?

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It's a very specialised bit of gear and requires a vessel appropriately equipped to tow it (v long cable). It's also something not required very often so there aren't heaps of them out there just sitting on a shelf.... And as has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread there is extremely limited data (evidence) to even guess as the location of where MH134 impacted the ocean.

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Wrong flight :p, what information are you trying to hide from us? :D

Find your way onto a flight tracking site and look at the web of flight paths crisscrossing the major designations .

Surely it's time with the amount of traffic in the skies, that these ping locators are made mandatory for airports like the requirement for fire tenders.
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conspiracy theory coming on V8Ian?

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Not really, I think there's a fair chance this plane is going to re-appear loaded with explosives. :(
I can't see why a skilled pilot would avoid radars rah rah, simply to crash into the Indian Ocean when the same result could have been achieved in the China Sea.

Why do they use budget batteries in the black box?
Haven't they heard of....
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Not really, I think there's a fair chance this plane is going to re-appear loaded with explosives.

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That's my fear as well.

How much damage could MH370 full of high explosives do in the middle of one of the Worlds largest cities? :(

Or loaded with a dirty Atomic bomb. :eek:
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That's my fear as well.

How much damage could MH370 full of high explosives do in the middle of one of the Worlds largest cities? :(

Or loaded with a dirty Atomic bomb. :eek:
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Or, even a real one!!!!!

Well, at least this is real. No wonder they can't pinpoint the crash area by the debris, Bob


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I just don't know why the ping in the black box is so primitive.

I previously flew plenty of cheap RC Planes, usually along way from launch point. Sometimes something would go wrong and we would loose control of the plane. This often happened when the plane was already out of sight. We did this in pretty remote places due the issues with a 1kg plus plane flying uncontrolled at 60km/h plus. This is what created the worst of our lost RC plane problems. The terrain was pretty rough and there were fences and gates to contend with so chasing the plane on the ground was just too slow. We needed a way to just find it after it crashed.

This is what we used.
UHF RF beacon

With a Yagi (directional) antenna we could pick up the tone from over 8km way. As the antenna is directional, once we had a tone, we had a direction. We would just draw a line on a map and then drive around until we got more tones. It sends out 3 fading tones (each tone has less transmission power) so the more tones you get, the closer you are. If you had the last tone then you were usually within 50m or so which could still be hard to find in thick bush but we could go further away and use the Yagi to get the direction and then draw 2 intersecting lines to get a more accurate location.

This all from a $50 RF beacon.

I powered mine from a 1S 500mah lipo which depending on settings, could power the beacon from anything from a week to a year or longer. We had it sending tones continuously so we could find the plane quicker but you could set it to only send tones up to hourly (mine is an early version).

I know it would be hard to locate something like this below the sea but we used a yagi that someone could make it their back shed. I would thing with the right equipment you could make a dish to be far more directional and that would be even better for locating the thing. Then cut down the frequency the tones are sent and increase the signal strength accordingly.

All this from a $50 component that isn't in a million dollar planes.

I might have to start including my own in my luggage in the future.

Happy Days.