Missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370

[Vash01]

Wing flap thought to be part of MH370 is escorted by police on way for analysis in France after Malaysia Airlines confirm it IS from a Boeing 777

Amazing. Seems like we'll know 100% within the next 24 hours if it was MH370, but it seems increasingly likely given it was a 777.

Boeing has already confirmed it was 777 from the serial number.

We may not know what exactly happened unless the black boxes are recovered and we may never know why. For the sake of the families I hope all the questions are answered.

 

[skatesindreams]

CNN spoke to an oceanographer yesterday who said that it is possible to "backtrack" the course the debris took, by examining the patterns of the ocean currents.
That could allow the authorities to "refine" the search area.

 

[Vash01]

Yes, it is from MH 370- confirmed by officials

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mi...cials-confirm-fragment-missing-flight-n404546

 

[Buzz]

Hope they find more soon and give the families some sense of closure

 

[Vash01]

The families must have mixed emotions. This confirms that the plane went down in the ocean, it was broken into pieces. Hope is strange though; one wants to believe that the loved one somehow survived it. I wish them peace.

 

[Vash01]

The families are going through so much! Some don't believe it. Some are confused. More important, France doesn't admit that it's a 100% certainty (that the wing/flap is from MH370). They want to run their tests before drawing a conclusion. In the meantime Malaysian prime minister is taking heat for saying it's definitely from MH370. Some feel he should have waited until confirmation came from France.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/06/asia/mh370-malaysia-investigation-missteps/index.html

There are reports of other debris (a part of a window, a seat cushion) but none of it has been tested for confirmation. IMO it's better not to jump the gun. The debris reported today could have come from anything.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/06/world/mh370-investigation/index.html

 

[skatesindreams]

Unfortunately, there will be some families who won't accept even confirmed evidence; because of all the SNAFU's which have occurred to this point.
Others find the truth too painful to bear.

 

[Cachoo]

I hope one day we receive a more complete picture of what happened. I've heard some of the talking heads say they believe it was mass murder/suicide and even if that is correct there are still so many questions. If by some miracle the black box is found would it be too water damaged to be of use?

 

[Twizzler]

How far was this debris found from the areas where were initially searching?

My heart breaks for these families. I can't begin to imagine what they are going through

 

[vesperholly]

How far was this debris found from the areas where were initially searching?

Other side of the ocean: http://cdn.cctv-america.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/GVO-REUNION-ISLAND-MAP_07302015_2.jpg

 

[Twizzler]

Other side of the ocean: http://cdn.cctv-america.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/GVO-REUNION-ISLAND-MAP_07302015_2.jpg

I realize that it's been well over a year, so with tides and everything any debris is likely no where near the actual wreckage at this point, but that's so far from where they are/were searching. It really confirms the "needle in a haystack" saying....

 

[Vash01]

The French have confirmed, after a month of testing that the debris is from MH370:

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/mi...-first-debris-missing-malaysia-flight-n421061

 

[Sylvia]

Bumping up this thread after 8 months with 2 AP articles published earlier today: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b2d5...sia-2-more-pieces-almost-certainly-flight-370

Malaysia's government said Thursday that two more pieces of debris, discovered in South Africa and Rodrigues Island off Mauritius, are "almost certainly" from Flight 370, bringing the total number of pieces believed to have come from the missing Malaysian jet to five.
The aircraft mysteriously disappeared more than two years ago with 239 people on board, and so far an extensive underwater search of a vast area of the Indian Ocean off Australia's west coast has turned up empty.

All five pieces have been found in various spots around the Indian Ocean. Last year, a wing part from the plane washed ashore on France's Reunion Island. In March, investigators confirmed two pieces of debris found along Mozambique's coast were almost certainly from the aircraft.
The jet, which vanished on March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, is believed to have crashed somewhere in a remote stretch of the southern Indian Ocean about 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) off Australia's west coast. Authorities had predicted that any debris from the plane that isn't on the ocean floor would eventually be carried by currents to the east coast of Africa.

A look at the debris found so far in the hunt for Flight 370

 

[twinsissv]

I still find it difficult to believe that nothing more than a few pieces of wreckage have been found from this catastrophic crash. I'd have expected floating fields of all kinds of oil slicks and horrific evidence from such a tragic event. That plane was absolutely gigantic!
Those poor souls...

 

[Vash01]

I still find it difficult to believe that nothing more than a few pieces of wreckage have been found from this catastrophic crash. I'd have expected floating fields of all kinds of oil slicks and horrific evidence from such a tragic event. That plane was absolutely gigantic!
Those poor souls...

Gigantic for a plane, but tiny compared to the vast ocean it must have crashed in.

 

[twinsissv]

Gigantic for a plane, but tiny compared to the vast ocean it must have crashed in.

Yes. How small we are...how little we know...indeed. On one of the tiniest planets.

 

[Sylvia]

Ten years ago today, Malaysia Airlines flight [MH370] vanished without a trace on March 8, 2014, becoming one of aviation’s biggest mysteries:

MH370 disappeared a decade ago. What we know about one of aviation’s biggest mystery

A Malaysia Airlines flight vanished without a trace on March 8, 2014, becoming one of aviation’s biggest mysteries

www.independent.co.uk

Malaysia's government has consistently said it will only resume the hunt if there is credible new evidence. It is now considering an Ocean Infinity proposal for a fresh search with new technology, although it is unclear if the company has new evidence of the plane's location.

MH370: The families haunted by one of aviation's greatest mysteries - BBC News

They still feel chained to the plane that vanished 10 years ago, with their loved ones on board.

www.bbc.com

ETA an excerpt from near the end of this BBC article:

Ocean Infinity scanned an area of 112,000km, back in 2018. This though, encompassed some extremely challenging terrain, like deep underwater canyons, and it is possible it might have missed the aircraft.

Retired British aerospace IT specialist Richard Godfrey, another person who has been pulled into the MH370 vortex, believes he has now pinpointed a much smaller search area, using innovative analysis of short-wave radio test transmissions made routinely by ham radio enthusiasts. This should allow a more concentrated search by the drones, making several passes over the same area.
"They record 1.7 billion records a year in their database. Imagine a huge fisherman's net, across the globe, full of radio signals. Every time an aircraft passes through this net, it breaks a hole in the net. That tells me where an aircraft was at a particular time. Over the six hours of MH370's flight into the southern Indian Ocean I have been able to find 313 anomalies in the radio signals at 95 different points in time. That gives you a much more refined flight route, and a more accurate determination of a crash location."
Richard's method is currently being tested by the University of Liverpool, which expects to establish how valid it is later this year.

 

[Winnipeg]

It was quite a mystery, especially with the technology available today to trace it. Hopefully the mystery will be put to rest with this new investigation.