Malaysia Airlines Plane "Loses Contact"

[NoddyonNitrous]

Vipers said:

Didnt know they had. Must have missed that bit.

Bits washed up in Madagascar and Eastern Africa

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=...

[Vaud]

AdeTuono said:

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

What? Towed him behind a boat?

[MarkRSi]

Speaking of Titanic, I saw this image earlier today, which makes finding the Titanic wreck quite an impressive achievement, and they roughly knew where that sank. Finding anything left of MH370 (in similar depths I think?) once the black boxes stopped transmitting would have been nothing short of a miracle...

[sparks_E39]

MarkRSi said:

Speaking of Titanic, I saw this image earlier today, which makes finding the Titanic wreck quite an impressive achievement, and they roughly knew where that sank. Finding anything left of MH370 (in similar depths I think?) once the black boxes stopped transmitting would have been nothing short of a miracle...

Yup, and even though it says it is, that image isn't to scale.

[Blaster72]

sparks_E39 said:

Yup, and even though it says it is, that image isn't to scale.

Why's that?

[sparks_E39]

Blaster72 said:

sparks_E39 said:

Yup, and even though it says it is, that image isn't to scale.

Why's that?

Unfortunately I can't provide a link, it was on a forum regarding Titanic, it was found to be inaccurate, although not far off. It does the rounds though. Remarkable how well Titanic is preserved considering.

[FourWheelDrift]

The Titanic is approximately 13 Titanic lengths down, if anything the image of the Titanic is too small?

Titanic - 269m long
1 mile = 1609.34m

So 1 mile = 5.98 Titanics, multiply by 2.2 = 13.1 lengths.

I'm right aren't I, it's late and I might be a little bit drunk.

[Willy Nilly]

There was a bloke on the wireless today from the search organisation (they found the Air France plane) and he said if they are give the area the plane is in they will find it.

[Blaster72]

sparks_E39 said:

Unfortunately I can't provide a link, it was on a forum regarding Titanic, it was found to be inaccurate, although not far off. It does the rounds though. Remarkable how well Titanic is preserved considering.

Ta very much. I thought it looked pretty accurate to me as a visual representation.

Bit of a thread drift but I've always liked this one as a size comparison for Titanic.

[Borroxs]

FourWheelDrift said:

The Titanic is approximately 13 Titanic lengths down, if anything the image of the Titanic is too small?

Titanic - 269m long
1 mile = 1609.34m

So 1 mile = 5.98 Titanics, multiply by 2.2 = 13.1 lengths.

I'm right aren't I, it's late and I might be a little bit drunk.

I did it in feet and it's 13.6 times its length down. I thought it would be more.

[SpeckledJim]

Willy Nilly said:

There was a bloke on the wireless today from the search organisation (they found the Air France plane) and he said if they are give the area the plane is in they will find it.

Well, yeah.

Tell me which room you are in, and I will find you.

[Willy Nilly]

SpeckledJim said:

Willy Nilly said:

There was a bloke on the wireless today from the search organisation (they found the Air France plane) and he said if they are give the area the plane is in they will find it.

Well, yeah.

Tell me which room you are in, and I will find you.

It's probably that simple finding a broken aircraft at the bottom of the Indian ocean. Defo.

[Borroxs]

Willy Nilly said:

SpeckledJim said:

Willy Nilly said:

There was a bloke on the wireless today from the search organisation (they found the Air France plane) and he said if they are give the area the plane is in they will find it.

Well, yeah.

Tell me which room you are in, and I will find you.

It's probably that simple finding a broken aircraft at the bottom of the Indian ocean. Defo.

They need to define the term 'area'. Pretty sure I could define an area with 100% certainty. Might be a but large though....

[Willy Nilly]

Borroxs said:

Willy Nilly said:

SpeckledJim said:

Willy Nilly said:

There was a bloke on the wireless today from the search organisation (they found the Air France plane) and he said if they are give the area the plane is in they will find it.

Well, yeah.

Tell me which room you are in, and I will find you.

It's probably that simple finding a broken aircraft at the bottom of the Indian ocean. Defo.

They need to define the term 'area'. Pretty sure I could define an area with 100% certainty. Might be a but large though....

It seemed he wanted it narrowed down a little from tens of thousands of square miles of south Indian Ocean. It didn't taken them long to find the Air France plane once they were given an idea where it was. As it is they are working almost blind.

[sparks_E39]

Borroxs said:

FourWheelDrift said:

The Titanic is approximately 13 Titanic lengths down, if anything the image of the Titanic is too small?

Titanic - 269m long
1 mile = 1609.34m

So 1 mile = 5.98 Titanics, multiply by 2.2 = 13.1 lengths.

I'm right aren't I, it's late and I might be a little bit drunk.

I did it in feet and it's 13.6 times its length down. I thought it would be more.

Indeed, and it's entirely feasible that MH370 could be a lot deeper than Titanic. The ocean floor where Titanic lays is on a very gradual slope, so it was relatively easier to find once technology allowed. Large areas of the ocean floor are littered with huge caverns, MH370 could well be lost forever.

[Starfighter]

And no real ability to issue Mangnetic Aanomily Detection as an aircraft is mainly non-ferrous.

[FourWheelDrift]

sparks_E39 said:

Indeed, and it's entirely feasible that MH370 could be a lot deeper than Titanic. The ocean floor where Titanic lays is on a very gradual slope, so it was relatively easier to find once technology allowed. Large areas of the ocean floor are littered with huge caverns, MH370 could well be lost forever.

Yep, Bismark for example is 4,791 m down that's almost another mile down.

[MartG]

Starfighter said:

And no real ability to issue Mangnetic Aanomily Detection as an aircraft is mainly non-ferrous.

Way to deep to be detected that way

[anonymous-user]

Blaster72 said:

sparks_E39 said:

Unfortunately I can't provide a link, it was on a forum regarding Titanic, it was found to be inaccurate, although not far off. It does the rounds though. Remarkable how well Titanic is preserved considering.

Ta very much. I thought it looked pretty accurate to me as a visual representation.

Bit of a thread drift but I've always liked this one as a size comparison for Titanic.

Remember that the titanic is still largely intact so searchers we're looking for a huge amount of iron in one known area.




The 777 smaller than the A380 in the picture is broken up and probably the largest sections would possibly only be engine sized. And nobody knows where it is.

[SpeckledJim]

Willy Nilly said:

Borroxs said:

Willy Nilly said:

SpeckledJim said:

Willy Nilly said:

There was a bloke on the wireless today from the search organisation (they found the Air France plane) and he said if they are give the area the plane is in they will find it.

Well, yeah.

Tell me which room you are in, and I will find you.

It's probably that simple finding a broken aircraft at the bottom of the Indian ocean. Defo.

They need to define the term 'area'. Pretty sure I could define an area with 100% certainty. Might be a but large though....

It seemed he wanted it narrowed down a little from tens of thousands of square miles of south Indian Ocean. It didn't taken them long to find the Air France plane once they were given an idea where it was. As it is they are working almost blind.

If anyone could outline a small area the plane was definitely in, they would have done that already.

"tell me where it is, ish, and I will find it" is totally meaningless.