Air Malaysia missing.

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Ocean currents.

The only (dead) crew from the HMAS Sydney II lost off Carnarvon WA in WWII that were ever found, was a single corpse on a carey float found on Christmas Island months later. So likely that there are East-West flowing currents in that part of the Indian Ocean.

It becomes a possibility for something to get to the Maldives from MH370 .

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How do you find out if that cylinder has now been inspected properly by the investigation team for the MH370 disappearance?

Is there any oceanographers that can say that the major ocean currents are consistent in their direction?

If that cylinder is from the missing MH370 flight, then there must now be a concerted effort to determine the direction it arrived from.
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The R.N. has a submarine and a survey ship now searching, Bob


BBC News - MH370: UK submarine joins search for missing plane

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Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

How do you find out if that cylinder has now been inspected properly by the investigation team for the MH370 disappearance?

Is there any oceanographers that can say that the major ocean currents are consistent in their direction?

If that cylinder is from the missing MH370 flight, then there must now be a concerted effort to determine the direction it arrived from.
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It should be determined if it came from MH370 by its serial number and yes if it does come from the plane, they should use oceanography and meteorology (particularly intervening wind) to determine a likely crash zone.

At present the search zones have been determined by guesstimates based upon records of hourly satellite pings and estimated airspeed plus a few visual sightings of things floating in the ocean.

The Indian Ocean is a very big place.

Here is a paper on currents of the Oceans, from the USN, I believe. Long winded, but there is a chart of drift currents about a 1/4 of the way down the page., Bob


http://msi.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/St...N/Chapt-32.pdf

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Originally Posted by bob10

Here is a paper on currents of the Oceans, from the USN, I believe. Long winded, but there is a chart of drift currents about a 1/4 of the way down the page., Bob


http://msi.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/St...N/Chapt-32.pdf

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Originally Posted by OCEAN CURRENTS

Near Sumatra, this current curves in a clockwise direction and flows westward, augmenting the South Equatorial Current, and setting up a clockwise circulation in the northern part of the Indian Ocean.

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So it is possible for crash debris deposited in the central part of the Indian Ocean south of the equator to migrate west by ocean currents alone. Given a speed of up to 5 knots and the time since the crash it could be possible for debris to drift over 2000 nautical miles.

Makes for a daunting task for people searching for the crash site by looking for floating debris.

They may never find the black boxes. :(

Chinese ship picks up pulse signal in search for MH370 wreckage, Xinhua News Agency reports.

That is like win the lottery :eek:

Thanks Arthur I'll do a search for that info.

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Chinese ship picks up pulse signal in search for MH370 wreckage, Xinhua News Agency reports.

That is like win the lottery :eek:

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A second signal picked up, it seems. Hopefully. Ocean Shield has picked up an acoustic signal as well, so they say. Bob



BBC News - MH370: Plane search signal 'important lead'

no wreckage found yet either,
whats the chance of a 777 landing with fuselage intact on the ocean , wheels up , autopilot holding a glide no doubt, assuming there was no swell ??

engines would shear off on impact but would the fuse break ??

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Originally Posted by goingbush

no wreckage found yet either, whats the chance of a 777 landing with fuselage intact on the ocean , wheels up , autopilot holding a glide no doubt, assuming there was no swell ?? engines would shear off on impact but would the fuse break ??

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The Hudson River ditching proves this possible.
All the ifs, buts, maybes and overall gibberish of baseless theories aside, the MH crew could have had a lot more time to plan than the Hudson River crew did.
Autopilot? No
Without meaning to, or starting a disparagement of the crew, I would be sceptical of the skill set, ie experience outside of a highly automated cockpit ,despite accrued hours, to successfully achieve this regardless of circumstances.