Malaysia flight MH370: China jets boost Indian Ocean hunt (Great map thanks to BBC)

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Malaysia flight MH370: China jets boost Indian Ocean hunt

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26702855#TWEET1079811

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[BlueStreak]

1. That latest "object" actually looks like something

If you watch the video on the page linked int he OP, it shows a very pixellated close-up of the object from the Chinese satellite. The other satellite pictures looked iffy to me, but this one looks like there is definitely some object in the water. And the fact that is it so close (75 miles) to the site spotted by the Australian satellite tends to corroborate both.

The person speaking in the video claims that it is unlikely to be the same object. I don't see why that would be ruled out as there are several days between the two observations. I would have thought that 75 mile movement would be possible in 48 hours. That's not even 2 miles an hour. But if both pictures are real objects and not the same object, that is entirely consistent with a crash followed by 15 days of drifting of the two different pieces. I don't think any "expert" would claim that two pieces couldn't drift apart 75 miles in 15 days.

I'd sure like to know the prevailing currents in that stretch of sea, If they are from NW to SE, then this is all completely consistent with the original focus on a search area to the northwest of where these latest pictures suggest debris is floating. That would be a whole lot of correlation to be a mistake or coincidence.

[davidpdx]

2. Thanks for posting this

It gives people a better sense of just how far out in the middle of no where they are having to go to search. If it is there it will be tough to recover.

[Agschmid]

3. Kick, good read.