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US navy is now saying that the 4 black box pings they have picked up are not from MA 370. But they are not saying how they know it's not from the plane.
US navy is now saying that the 4 black box pings they have picked up are not from MA 370. But they are not saying how they know it's not from the plane.
Reported on CNN today.
You mean the pings they picked up several weeks ago?
US navy is now saying that the 4 black box pings they have picked up are not from MA 370. But they are not saying how they know it's not from the plane.
No, that is not true. A civilian expert working with the Navy declared that most countries agreed the pings did not come from the plane. The Navy said that statement is premature and speculative.
"Mike Dean's comments today were speculative and premature, as we continue to work with our partners to more thoroughly understand the data acquired by the Towed Pinger Locator," U.S. Navy spokesman Chris Johnson said in a statement, referring to Australia and Malaysia.
An article I read yesterday said they think the pings might have been coming from the ship or the pinger locator, the 4 that they heard that supposedly helped them pinpoint the location. But, if the pings were coming from either of those, why did they lose the signals shortly after, in what seemed to coincide with the batteries in the black boxes running out?
I haven't been following this thread for awhile now, but is it safe to say that after all the time, money spent and people involved, no one has a clue where the plane is at?
I haven't been following this thread for awhile now, but is it safe to say that after all the time, money spent and people involved, no one has a clue where the plane is at?
They have a "clue" but have pretty well decided it is not where they initially thought. So we are now going to basically map a large part of the Indian Ocean. That is a long term task that will likely find the plane but it may well be over a year from now.
I would think we will at least end up with all commercial flights being tracked. Likely the cost of this search alone would have paid for the system.
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Maybe the pings were coming from a nuclear submarine resting on a shelf or wandering through?
However they don't actually know for sure that the ping location was wrong, since the submersible locator thingy wasn't able to accurately cover the area north of the largest ping - it was too deep there for it to function properly.
At this point they should just give up and call it a day on this plane. They will never find it because they have ZERO clue where it even went. Everything so far have been guesses and alot of wrong guesses. The plane could have had more fuel for all we know and crashed somewhere near Antarctica or crashed further west than they are looking now where the ocean is 20,000 + ft deep. Or actaully in the bottom of Bay of Bengal, but that wouldnt explain the pings from the engines 7 hours after take off unless that was a lie also.
The only other scenario is, it landed somewhere with intent of being used for something really bad in the future, but hiding a 200ft plane, disposing all the bodies, getting thousands of gallons of fuel to put it back in the air, finding a pilot that can actually fly a 777 and willing to kill themselves is insane.
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