Flight MH-370

[Johnny Wadd]

Originally Posted by deadwood

The error with the assumption is that it is just that, an assumption.

The wings and tail section of a plane, and their components such as the aileron they claimed to wash ashore, are not watertight.

It's not watertight but the flaperon is made of lightweight aluminum and carbon fiber in a honeycomb structure surrounding the skin. There is enough air captured in it to keep it positive bouyant, and even if negative it would only sink to a depth where it would be neutral, several feet for instance, and be moved by the currents. The french team that originally investigated the debris tested for this, they actually put it in a water tank to see how it floated and found that it floated at an angle with the long edge out of the water.

[ocpaul20]

There are probably all kinds of degrees of salinity in the oceans and that might have a bearing on the way something floats of sinks. Plus, regardless of whether a wing floats or sinks, we still need to know which wing we are talking about and which wing was damaged in 2012.
https://www.city-data.com/forum/66578005-post328.html

[fisheye]

Originally Posted by ocpaul20

There are probably all kinds of degrees of salinity in the oceans and that might have a bearing on the way something floats of sinks. Plus, regardless of whether a wing floats or sinks, we still need to know which wing we are talking about and which wing was damaged in 2012.
https://www.city-data.com/forum/66578005-post328.html

Here is an artificial on the varying salinity in our oceans: https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/reso...r%20or%20lower. The salinity of the ocean, where we suspect 370 went down, varied between 34 and 35 parts per thousand of seawater. That looks about average for most of our oceans. The Arctic and Antarctic oceans have less salinity.