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Please help me understand how they know for sure that the plane went down right there . On CNN they are reporting it like it's a fact. The plane crashed and everybody is dead. They haven't found any airplane debris at all so far. What intelligence proves that the plane crashed? How come it too almost 3 weeks to figure this out?
I agree. I think they just wanted to get the news out before the end of their day rather than have the news media start leaking it. I'm hoping tomorrow's press conference answers all the questions, or at least the obvious ones.
Please help me understand how they know for sure that the plane went down right there . On CNN they are reporting it like it's a fact. The plane crashed and everybody is dead. They haven't found any airplane debris at all so far. What intelligence proves that the plane crashed? How come it took almost 3 weeks to figure this out?
Well, all they've said is that their certainty comes "new analysis of satellite data." He's gonna give more details tomorrow.
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The Prime Minister based his announcement on what he described as unprecedented analysis of satellite data sent by the plane by British satellite provider Inmarsat and the British Air Accidents Investigation Branch. He didn't describe the nature of the analysis.
But he said it made it clear that the plane's last position was in the middle of the remote southern Indian Ocean, "far from any possible landing sites."
It's conclusive that this is the plane based upon further analysis of satellite images by specialists from different countries. The Malaysian PM was only reading the announcement. Everyone is dead. The families are being flown to Australia. It's a very sad finding even though it's what most people knew deep down inside.
The NY Times reported today that the reason Thai officials didn't reveal that they'd picked up the plane on radar when it strayed briefly into their territory was that they didn't want the world to know how lax their air defenses were. Apparently they sheepishly admitted this more recently.
The opposite is probably the correct information. When you read things like ?sheepishly admitted" you know it is baloney.
Family members should have assumed no survivors in the first few days.
They would be more prepared to hear the worst, if they had "considered" the worst.
Unless Malaysia has proof, then they are going ahead and announcing the worst case. If it turns out that the plane has landed in some country and passengers are alive then no one will scorn Malaysia for their announcement today. Today's announcement will be forgotten.
No, the family members should not have assumed the worst. It is human nature to keep up hope, not to give up and admit defeat. As long as there was a glimmer of hope any normal person would have hope.
Malaysia now has proof. Now the families will finally have closure.
It's clear that this was always a crash. The media simply hyped up the inadequacies of the Malaysian government and the "mystery" surrounding the disappearance for ratings.
Well now we know why they couldn't find the plane...
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Scientists say man-made climate change has fundamentally altered the currents of the vast, deep oceans where investigators are currently scouring for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight, setting a complex stage for the ongoing search for MH370. If the Boeing 777 did plunge into the ocean somewhere in the vicinity of where the Indian Ocean meets the Southern Ocean, the location where its debris finally ends up, if found at all, may be vastly different from where investigators could have anticipated 30 years ago.
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