I don't think they'll ever find Flight 370.

[MoonRiver]

I'm starting to think "they" don't want to. Every time we hear about suspicious objects floating on the ocean, by the time anybody gets around to going down there and checking, the objects are gone. Either nobody cares enough to get there ASAP, or finding the objects will create more problems than the world wants.

[Benton D Struckcheon]

1. Won't find it is likely,

but not for the reason you state. Amelia Earhart was never found either. There's a Boeing plane that was stolen in 2003 or so that disappeared and no one knows what happened there either.
It's a big world. If you drop into the middle of the ocean, chances of being found if no one even knows where to begin to look aren't exactly high.

[former9thward]

5. This is the longest a commercial flight has ever been missing.

The other two you mention are apples and oranges. Were there satellites when Earhart went missing in her tiny plane? This plane disappeared in an area of the world with the highest population density and intense radar and satellite coverage.

[Spider Jerusalem]

8. ...

The southern Indian Ocean, where investigators suspect missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have come down, is one place where a commercial airliner can crash without a ship spotting it, a radar plotting it or even a satellite picking it up.

The empty expanse of water is one of the most remote places in the world and also one of the deepest, posing potentially enormous challenges for the international search effort focusing on the area, one of several possible crash sites.

Even Australia, which has island territories in the Indian Ocean and sends rescue planes to pluck stricken yachtsmen from the cold, mountainous seas in the south from time to time, has no radar coverage much beyond its Indian Ocean coast.

“In most of Western Australia and almost all of the Indian Ocean, there is almost no radar coverage,” an Australian civil aviation authority source said, requesting anonymity as he was not authorised to speak on the record.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/16/if-mh370-crashed-in-southern-indian-ocean-it-wouldnt-be-seen-or-heard

[uppityperson]

10. well, you're no fun.

Thanks for the link

[hrmjustin]

26. Hey!

[uppityperson]

30. apologist for the Illuminati checking in!

[hrmjustin]

34. Evildoer!

[uppityperson]

35. Just don't call me a shill

And don't call me Shirley

[former9thward]

14. The U.S.military very early on in this case

said they could detect flashes (explosions) anywhere in the world and there were no flashes that night. That would indicate there is satellite coverage anywhere. So much for the "source" who refuses to be named.

[Raine1967]

9. Not sure about that commercial flight claim...

[and not really sure if it matters...

div class="excerpt"]In May of 2003, a completely airworthy Boeing 727 once owned by American Airlines, taxied out of maintenence and made an unauthorized takeoff from Luanda, Angola.

There was no radio communication, and the transponder was off. It simply disappeared, and would have been another aviation footnote except for two things.

The alleged hijacking came less than two years after 9-11 when we were still on our witch-hunt, so the CIA was very interested in a jetliner disappearing.

And a Mr. Ben Padilla, an American, was supposedly at the controls when the jet took off. It's been ten years, and like Star Dust, this plane is simply gone without a trace.

Source.


Just wanted to put that out there.

[former9thward]

12. That was not a commercial flight -- now was it?

It was a stolen plane and the only people on it were the thieves.

The search for Malaysian Airlines MH370 is the longest yet for a commercial flight that has gone missing, and there is still no end in sight.

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/03/20/Missing-MH370-longest-ever-search/

[truedelphi]

33. Thank you for adding in some common sense. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Occam's Razor.

The reason the airplane might never be found is simply that the Indian Ocean is very big and very deep. "They" would have to know where it is if "they" want to be sure nobody ever finds it.

[Jgarrick]

6. +1

[etherealtruth]

24. Exactly

It is tragic and it is frightening (I am a very terrified flier/ irrational, I know) .... but, it is what it is.

[former9thward]

3. We have heard over and over again ...

That satellites can read license plates from space. But now that they are needed they have no idea whether a 80 foot object is a piece of wreckage or a cargo carton that is adrift. Someone is lying.

[truedelphi]

37. Our government has switched away from the type of radar that

Would do this type of search. At least as far as that region of the world.

We now have a type of radar more in line with our need to support the drone warfare of the future.
http://qz.com/190937/drone-warfare-is-why-we-cant-find-malaysian-airlines-flight-370/

Also check out Synoia's theory over at Firedoglake. Like someone over there said, her conception of what happened would make a very decent thriller, even if it is not what actually occurred.

Then there is Jim Stone's version of events.
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/03/case-closed-hijacked-by-awacs-2916516.html

[applegrove]

4. To be fair both the south Indian ocean satellite photos were 4 days old

when they were spotted. A satellite can take a photo. But it has to be looked at with a set of eyes before it becomes useful.

[Voice for Peace]

7. it's a four hour flight, I read, from any land

and once in the area planes have only two hours for the search.

They ought to have an aircraft carrier out there.

[MoonRiver]

11. I've had that thought also.

Do we not have any more aircraft carriers??

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. The last one I saw had some idiot on the flight deck

with a 'Mission Accomplished' banner in the background.

[MoonRiver]

17. Maybe "they" could dispatch one sans the idiot.

Thank gawd I rarely think about him anymore.

[Terra Alta]

15. I don't think they will either, unfortunately.

I hope they do eventually though, for the families' sake. They deserve closure.

[malaise]

16. Actually the tropical storm heading for the search area

may whip up the ocean and deliver some more debris.

[MoonRiver]

18. Wow, malaise, I really hope so!

Never thought about that angle.

[malaise]

21. I can just imagine the anguish for the families

and friends of those on board - including those of the pilots and cabin crew.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Or the distances are such... that ...

The search area is not really an easy one to do any search on. If they find it. we are talking of ocean depths that ROVs will be used.

[lob1]

28. I believe I heard that the ocean is 2 miles deep where the wreckage was seen.

[nadinbrzezinski]

29. Yeah, it is deep.

The only manned that could go down that deep is Alvin iirc. Why unmaned will be used.

[Mojo Electro]

20. It's just not that easy.

The satellite photos are days old, you can't just go to where the object is, you have to take currents into account and go to where the object might be. Not to mention in it's a very remote area of the ocean. 4 hours 1 way by airplane just to get out there. Nobody is staring at a video monitor watching a satellite camera sitting over one spot. Satellites photograph a strip of ocean as they pass overhead, and then later somebody has to search through what must be hundreds if not thousands of photos looking for something.

I believe it will eventually be found, because I don't think they will stop looking. Worst case is that years go by and the search is massively scaled back, but there will always be some effort to find it, even if just by passing ships or by NASA. Or, some debris may eventually wash up somewhere.

[Logical]

22. FFS "I'm starting to think "they" don't want to" here we fucking go, conspircy shit. nt

[JI7]

23. who is "they" and how would you suggest they do it ASAP ?

[Logical]

40. LOL, so true. These posts amaze me. n-t

[magical thyme]

27. the objects are constantly moving, so it's not like they can pinpoint them on the satellite pix

and then find them at that location.

It's a huge area they are searching, and cargo ships pass through and leave debris as well.

They haven't spent the time, effort and money because they don't want to find them. This is harder than a needle in a haystack.

[HipChick]

31. Why are we back at did it "Could Flight 370 be on land?"

I just turned on CNN, and they are still in that 777 simulator..don't think has changed his clothes in days...do they ever let him out

[malaise]

36. Hubby howled with laughter at that shite

[HipChick]

38. I swear I have never seen anything like this...and that fake sea thing they have....their props dept

must stay busy...and Richard Quest is just annoying...what the hell does he know about aviation?

[malaise]

39. I stopped watching CNN

The coverage is atrocious on steroids. It's an insult to the public's intelligence - on the level of National Enquirer.

[davidpdx]

45. Maybe he's back on the pills

HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I'MMMMMMMMMMM RIChARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD QUESSSSSSSSSSSSST

*makes stabbing motions*

[Warpy]

32. If it took that southern arc and crashed, that's likely

but it isn't because no one wants to find it, it's because the southern Indian Ocean is very deep and the water often treacherous.

As long as they've ruled out a landing in Kazakhstan, and as long as no group has claimed responsibility for a hijacking, chances are it was some sort of catastrophic failure that wiped out the transponder and incapacitated the people in the cabin. That wild turn looks more and more like a last ditch attempt to find a runway fast.

[laundry_queen]

41. I agree with you.

I've said since day one the most likely scenario is something catastrophic happened and it either ditched into the ocean right away, or the pilots became incapacitated and the plane flew for awhile on autopilot before it fell into the ocean somewhere farther away. Now that we know about 'the turn' I agree, they were probably trying to find a runway right away but perhaps something happened after that that caused them to continue along the same trajectory until they ran out of gas and fell into the Indian ocean.

[rumdude]

42. If it crashed into a remote and deep section of the ocean

and then sank, it simply may never be found.

[rickford66]

44. I can guarantee that it will be found ....

in the last place they look.

[davidpdx]

46. Ann Coulter ate it

How's that for CT theories.

[Barack_America]

47. Probably not. But at least there's a place that's safe from the NSA.

We know that now.

While I do feel for the families, the simple truth is that sometimes we don't find out what happened to our loved ones. I fear this is one of those instances.

[CK_John]

48. It will be found but my take yrs to get it out of that deep area. IMO the problem is illegal loading

of li batteries. Someone in the ground crew or airport front office was looking the other way and paid well.

[HipChick]

49. If so...they have blood on their hands..

all 239 lives...

[Motown_Johnny]

50. It was The Rapture. The rest of us are now left behind.

Throw that one out for the RW crazies and see what they do!

[Jesus Malverde]

51. I heard from the austrailian end of the search...

It took 5 hours to get to the target area, once there they had two hours to search and then 5 hours back.

Why the US is not using it's surveillance drones is a mystery.