Malaysia Airlines Plane "Loses Contact"

[CAPP0]

Report said:

There were three small areas of heat damage on one of the pieces which created a burnt odor. However, that odor suggested the heat damage was recent, it said.

It was considered that burning odors would generally dissipate after an extended period of environmental exposure, including salt water immersion, as expected for items originating from the missing plane, the statement said.

So some twonk has run a blowtorch over the panels found to further develop a conspiracy theory?

[eharding]

CAPP0 said:

Report said:

There were three small areas of heat damage on one of the pieces which created a burnt odor. However, that odor suggested the heat damage was recent, it said.

It was considered that burning odors would generally dissipate after an extended period of environmental exposure, including salt water immersion, as expected for items originating from the missing plane, the statement said.

So some twonk has run a blowtorch over the panels found to further develop a conspiracy theory?

I think when some of the previous debris was found there were reports that similar items had also been found by folk paid to clean the beach, and not realising the significance of what they were picking up, had simply burned it as rubbish.

[Puggit]

Part of wing found on Mauritius a while back confirmed as from MH370. Unique work order number on the flap linked it to the plane:

http://news.sky.com/story/debris-in-mauritius-from...

[BlackLabel]

Guardian said:

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has come to an end with passengers’ families being informed that the effort to find the plane has been suspended.

Next of kin were told in an emailed statement on Tuesday that Australian authorities’ underwater search of 120,000 sq km in the southern Indian ocean had concluded without success.

The search had been ongoing for more than two years.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/17/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-search-called-off

[p1stonhead]

BlackLabel said:

Guardian said:

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has come to an end with passengers’ families being informed that the effort to find the plane has been suspended.

Next of kin were told in an emailed statement on Tuesday that Australian authorities’ underwater search of 120,000 sq km in the southern Indian ocean had concluded without success.

The search had been ongoing for more than two years.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/17/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-search-called-off

Sad day.

And really shows just how big the planet is that we can still lose a whole passenger airliner without a trace.

Itll remain one of lifes big unsolved mysteries.

[BlackLabel]

p1stonhead said:

Sad day.

And really shows just how big the planet is that we can still lose a whole passenger airliner without a trace.

Itll remain one of lifes big unsolved mysteries.

Must be horrific for the loved ones of the dead not getting full closure on this.

[peterperkins]

Have they all been declared officially dead?

I hope the relatives didn't get a load of crap from insurance companies and the like..
Let's hope they can now move one with their lives in peace and privacy.

[NoddyonNitrous]

The fact that bits have been found must mean insurers can't claim it landed safe and sound somewhere.

[Morningside]

I understand why these things have to get called off eventually but it's very sad for the loved ones left behind just not knowing or giving them closure.

[Vipers]

NoddyonNitrous said:

The fact that bits have been found must mean insurers can't claim it landed safe and sound somewhere.

Didnt know they had. Must have missed that bit.

[del mar]

NoddyonNitrous said:

The fact that bits have been found must mean insurers can't claim it landed safe and sound somewhere.

Most policies would respond if you are missing for 12 months, especially in an incident like this.

I think the Hartlepool canoer had to lie low for a year before they paid out.

[AdeTuono]

If only they'd listened to AreOut....

[B17NNS]

It'll be a Titanic type situation I imagine. In years to come technology will improve and it may be found eventually.

[Munter]

Ok so they didn't find the plane. But apparently they did find a volcano, and all sorts of ships and stuff. I'd be interested to know the stories behind what they did find out there.

[anonymous-user]

B17NNS said:

It'll be a Titanic type situation I imagine. In years to come technology will improve and it may be found eventually.

Really I imagine everyday more of the plane is disappearing and will most likely never be found.

[sparks_E39]

The Spruce goose said:

B17NNS said:

It'll be a Titanic type situation I imagine. In years to come technology will improve and it may be found eventually.

Really I imagine everyday more of the plane is disappearing and will most likely never be found.

It's nowhere near the scale of the Titanic disaster. I doubt sadly that there will be any interest in years to come, also it's much smaller and possibly deeper than the Titanic, which took 73 years to find.

[surveyor]

I find it sad that no-one appears to be talking about technology to prevent such unknown losses in future, or at least leave being a location...

[Munter]

surveyor said:

I find it sad that no-one appears to be talking about technology to prevent such unknown losses in future, or at least leave being a location...

People have spoken about it. I there are further plans afoot to do that. But it's not as simple as snapping your fingers and making it happen.

http://www.icao.int/safety/globaltracking/Pages/GA...

November 2018 is the target for tracking.

[Jakarta]

Munter said:

Ok so they didn't find the plane. But apparently they did find a volcano, and all sorts of ships and stuff. I'd be interested to know the stories behind what they did find out there.

I understand that the data is going to be thrown out to the public domain for hobbyists to play with. Those at home with a pirate version of any CARIS or Fledermaus software will have a field day coming up with uncharted sea mounts, ridges, wrecks and other underwater easter eggs.
It would also be rather embarrassing for Fugro and the ATSB should a hobbyist find MH370.

[Borroxs]

So nearly three years later, we don't know why it has disappeared, and we don't know it's location. Amazing in this day.

I've always thought they may have over estimated how far it could have flown. We don't know how much fuel was consumed during the initial flight manoeuvres. They seem to have put so much faith in this 'ping' that they have put the plane on a specific arc, maybe, just maybe, there is some kind of minute software bug or miscalculation that might be going vinegar them ever so slightly wrong data.

Or maybe they were looking in the right place, but not with the required level of sensitive technology to unearth it.


I'm sure there must be some clues somewhere that tell us why the pilot may have done what I think he's done. Why do that and not leave a trail, a clue, a statement? I suspect a cover up of information by the local authorities.