Contact lost with Malaysia Plane.

[Latindancer]

There will be more. And as there are circular currents, the bits which haven't sunk will still just be going round and round, if they haven't washed up.

It would be interesting to know how much searching has been going on in those areas now.

[Norton]

I occasionally look here for uldates. The search continues.

https://www.atsb.gov.au/mh370-pages/...tional-update/

[ENT]

Judging by the barnacles on two pieces, especially the flaperon with its top-surface peculiarly free of barnacles, that had to have been in tropical to subtropical waters ideally c.24 < 32 degrees for a year or so.

Both pieces were found in the South Equatorial Current from the N East', which flows across from Sumatra/N Australia then on around Diego Garcia on its way to Africa and south.
It's now two years since the prang

[harrybarracuda]

And our mate ENT adds Marine Biologist to his lengthy list of imaginary qualifications.

[ENT]

Only an envious and ignorant fool such as yourself would say that. ^

[Latindancer]

Oh, I do so envy your imaginary qualifications !

[ENT]

You're the one imagining them, not I.

[harrybarracuda]

Experts hunting for traces of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 lost a state-of-the-art sonar device for the second time in three months, NBC News reported.
The "towfish,"an underwater sonar device dragged behind ships that scans the seabed for debris, was attached to an 1,800-pound weight to keep it floating from the surface when "the failure of a tow cable connector resulted in the loss," the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) said in statement Wednesday.

A remote-controlled submersible was flown in from the United States to attempt to recover the yellow, torpedo-shaped unit from the seabed.
Published at 8:35 AM EDT on Apr 13, 2016

Officials Searching for MH370 Lose 2nd Sonar Device in 3 Months | NECN

[wasabi]

I said right at the very beginning that this crashed plane would never be found.
It's just the Titanic story of our day.

[harrybarracuda]

I said right at the very beginning that this crashed plane would never be found.
It's just the Titanic story of our day.

Derp.

[harrybarracuda]

ATSB outlines analysis process for MH370 debris

19 APRIL, 2016 BY: ELLIS TAYLOR PERTH
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) relied on markings and fasteners to determine that two pieces of debris that washed up on African shores are "almost certainly" from the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER that was operating the fateful MH370 flight.

The ATSB says that it was requested by the Malaysian government in March to examine the two pieces of debris, which washed up separately in South Africa and Mozambique.

After being collected and packaged by the respective civil aviation authorities, the aircraft pieces were sent to Canberra and quarantined at a Geoscience Australia facility where they were unwrapped, examined for biological material and washed prior to handover to the ATSB for analysis.

The first piece of debris was initially identified as a segment from a 777 flap fairing panel by the presence of a stenciled part number. Although the stenciling did not match that used by Boeing, it was consistent with stencils used by Malaysia Airlines on its 777s, including the missing aircraft – 9M-MRO.

"All measurable dimensions, materials, construction and other identifiable features conformed to the applicable Boeing drawings for the identified fairing," the Bureau adds.

The second part was also identified from a ‘No step’ stenciling, which again corresponded with Malaysian Airlines’ stencils but not those originally used by Boeing. The ATSB says that this allowed it to identify the piece as part of the aircraft’s horizontal stabiliser.

The piece also had a fastener with markings which were consistent with those used on the 777 manufactured immediately after 9M-MRO.

The ATSB adds that analysis with respect to the marine ecology found on the parts is continuing, as well as testing of material samples.

Nonetheless, it says that it is almost certain that the two parts are from the missing 777.

Flight MH370 went missing in the early hours of 8 March 2014 while enroute from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. A large underwater search for the wreckage and crash site of the 777 in the southern Indian Ocean is expected to continue until mid-year.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...ebris-424342/?

[jamescollister]

The second part was also identified from a ‘No step’ stenciling, which again corresponded with Malaysian Airlines’ stencils but not those originally used by Boeing. The ATSB says that this allowed it to identify the piece as part of the aircraft’s horizontal stabiliser.

I am a skeptic in all things, why could the Malaysians not recognize their own markings to start.
Doubt the ATSB would have maintenance records of Malaysian aircraft, that the Malaysians don't seem to have keep up to date, Boeing keeps computerized records, so who is really confirming the parts.

[ENT]

Obviously the original stencilled letters applied by Boeing weren't there.

Why would MA want to change stencil configurations?

It would have been easier to have used the original Boeing patterns.

[bobfish]

MH probably repainted that component during routine maintenance. I presume the specification required "NO STEP" to be applied within certain parameters, not necessarily identical to the Original Equipment Manufacturers script. They service other types as well.
Very normal.
I see no conflict with ATSB findings vs MH on this.

[harrybarracuda]

MH probably repainted that component during routine maintenance. I presume the specification required "NO STEP" to be applied within certain parameters, not necessarily identical to the Original Equipment Manufacturers script. They service other types as well.
Very normal.
I see no conflict with ATSB findings vs MH on this.

Yes, but you're not looking from the looney tunes, nutjob, tin foil hat perspective.

[ENT]

MH probably repainted that component during routine maintenance. I presume the specification required "NO STEP" to be applied within certain parameters, not necessarily identical to the Original Equipment Manufacturers script. They service other types as well.
Very normal.
I see no conflict with ATSB findings vs MH on this.

Thank you.

[harrybarracuda]

South Africa and Mozambique gave approval this week for Malaysia to check their waters for debris possibly linked to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, also known as MH370. But transport minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai told reporters that investigators weren't immediately sending over a team, according to Bernama.

"Both countries will assist us to find [the plane], and they will inform us if more debris have been found," he said.

Flight MH370 Search Update: Mozambique, South Africa OK Search In Their Waters After Debris Discoveries

[harrybarracuda]

Special Tripartite Meeting On MH370 Next Week

KUALA LUMPUR, June 18 (Bernama) -- A two-day special tripartite meeting on Malaysia Airlines MH370 will be convened here, beginning Monday, to deliberate on the next course of action for the vanished jetliner.

Transport Deputy Minister Datuk Ab Aziz Kaprawi told Bernama here today that the highly anticipated meeting would also look in detail, other crucial issues, including the recent discovery of several debris and inputs from aviation experts.

The meeting, involving high-level officials from Australia, China and Malaysia is expected to take place at the transport ministry in Putrajaya.....

BERNAMA - Special Tripartite Meeting On MH370 Next Week

[Latindancer]

Another (large) piece found, quite possibly MH370 :

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/31911512...-island/#page1

[ENT]

Interesting how all that debris is being swept there from somewhere in the direction of Diego Garcia and the Maldives.

[Latindancer]

It's a big circle, and could come from anywhere around there. Though that plane some people saw over the Maldives hasn't been disproved to my

satisfaction, by any means. It was quite an odd occurrence, and never properly explained away.

[ENT]

But not likely from the coast off Perth.

[jamescollister]

If bits are turning up all along the coast, to me that puts to bed, the we didn't find any floating wreckage because the plane sank intact.
If it broke up on impact, why no sign in the search are.

[harrybarracuda]

Interesting how all that debris is being swept there from somewhere in the direction of Diego Garcia and the Maldives.

And could our resident self-proclaimed oceanographer explain how he works that out?

[ENT]

Easily seen on the map above.

Diego Garcia ( aprox 7 degrees South latitude) lies well within the South Equatorial Current direction of flow, westwards.

The latest debris find at Pemba Island, also washed by the South Equatorial Current is at about the same the same latitude, 5 degrees South.

Seychelles, influenced by the same current is also at around 5 degrees South.

All the other debris found so far along the coast of Africa and eastward to Reunion Island was transported there by that same current.

Here's a simpler map for you harry.