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Not quite sure why they are bothering unless they have budget to use up.

Aussie Scientists Claim They Have Further Narrowed Missing MH370 Flight Location

Last update: 05/07/2017

CANBERRA, July 5 (Bernama) -- An Australian research team on Wednesday claimed that they have narrowed the location of the missing MH370 flight down to just a fraction of the ocean search area previously explored by Australian, Malaysian and Chinese authorities, China's Xinhua news agency reported.

Speaking at the Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) national conference in Darwin, David Griffin, head of the team from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), said his team had continued analyzing drift modelling data well after the ocean search had concluded, estimating that the plane went down along the "seventh arc."

Griffin said, "There's a strong current crossing across the seventh arc at (a latitude of) 35 degrees south, so we think the plane crashed into that current going to the north-west ... That explains why debris didn't arrive in Australia."

In January, a joint statement from the governments of Australia, Malaysia and China said the ocean search for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 would be "suspended indefinitely" until "credible new evidence" came to light.

MH370 was a scheduled passenger flight bound for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. It disappeared on March 8, 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board.

During the ocean search operation which lasted for two years, authorities have combed a 120,000 square km patch of the Indian Ocean to no avail, with no sign of the plane yet to be found.

According to Griffin, the researchers buried themselves in satellite data to determine the exact sea level height on March 8, 2014 - when the jet disappeared - and from that, they were able to determine the direction in which ocean currents flowed.

"So that's the basis of how we know this current was flowing across the seventh arc at this time," Griffin said at the conference.

He said that the CSIRO - Australia's government-funded scientific agency - had passed on the information to the authorities in charge of the search of MH370, but the government has not yet mentioned whether or not the ocean search would resume.

-- BERNAMA

BERNAMA - Aussie Scientists Claim They Have Further Narrowed Missing MH370 Flight Location

Another link...

MH370: Search for missing flight narrows to specific area along 'the seventh arc' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

MH370: Search for missing flight narrows to specific area along 'the seventh arc' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Same guy who used his drift modeling using wooden boxes in a bay in Tasmania.
Government grant comes to mind, unemployment is a bitch when you got it wrong twice already.

Originally Posted by jamescollister

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

MH370: Search for missing flight narrows to specific area along 'the seventh arc' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Same guy who used his drift modeling using wooden boxes in a bay in Tasmania.
Government grant comes to mind, unemployment is a bitch when you got it wrong twice already.

Well I suppose if China or Malaysia is paying, who knows?

When did we get these fucking trainee mods?

Either put the 9/11 thread in here, or put this in Speakers you fucking bunch of amateurs.

So Cold Pizza is a mod again?

Originally Posted by Neverna

So Cold Pizza is a mod again?

Oh come on, they're not that fucking thick.

Here is a pic of the new modelling.

Strange how none of the modelling shows anything near Diego Garcia.

Originally Posted by OhOh

Strange how none of the modelling shows anything near Diego Garcia.

It's not strange at all.

When he words it like this, it's bound to raise hackles in China and Malaysia. But who's going to pay?

Nearly five months after Australian authorities suspended search operations for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean, researchers have claimed that they know the exact spot where the plane's wreckage could be found.

The plane disappeared on 8 March 2014 while en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.

"We think we know quite precisely where the plane is," Dr David Griffin from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Csiro) told a national marine conference in Darwin.

MH370 search: How close are scientists to solving aviation's biggest mystery?

Er...yes. The precise 25,000 square kilometre area.

A tiny island-country east of Africa has reported it has discovered two new pieces of debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

The Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) said scientists researching birds and turtles had found the debris washed up on Farqhar, one of the islands that make up the tropical Indian Ocean nation.

'The direction of flow of the sea currents make it likely that the (debris) came from the general direction where other parts (of MH370) have been found in Indian Ocean countries,' a senior SCAA official who asked not to be named said

African scientists find MH370 debris in Seychelles | Daily Mail Online

Malaysia says Seychelles debris not from missing MH370 plane

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia said on Friday pieces of debris found in Seychelles are not from missing flight MH370, which vanished in March 2014 on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

The location of the plane has become one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. It is believed to have gone down in the Indian Ocean.

Various pieces of debris have been collected from Indian Ocean islands and Africa's east coast and at least three of them have been confirmed as coming from the missing Boeing 777.

Seychelles reported on Thursday the discovery of two pieces of debris washed up on an island that seemed to be from an aircraft, and said it had notified Malaysia.

But Malaysia had come to the conclusion that the debris was not from the plane after contacting the Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority for more information.

"The MH370 Investigations Team has carried out assessment ... and confirmed that the debris is not from Boeing 777 or Rolls Royce engine," Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director general of civil aviation, said in a statement.

Malaysia says Seychelles debris not from missing MH370 plane | Reuters

Detailed MH370 search area maps released
2:40pm Jul 19, 2017

The painstaking search for the vanished Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has produced a trove of incredibly detailed maps of vast expanses of deep ocean.

Scientists and amateur enthusiasts have been gifted unprecedented mapping of the southern Indian Ocean, which was the site of one of the largest marine searches ever conducted.

The Boeing 777 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board and its whereabouts is one of the greatest aviation mysteries.

For nearly three years Australia led a multinational search for the aircraft, which was suspended in January until credible new evidence was found.

The search was broken into two phases, the first of which provided a detailed map of the sea floor topography in the area.

The data has revealed in never-before-seen detail underwater volcanoes, enormous ridges and deep fault valleys across 710,000 square kilometres of remote ocean.

Stuart Minchin, Geoscience Australia's environmental geoscience division chief, said only 10 to 15 per cent of the world's oceans had been surveyed with the kind of technology used in the search for MH370.

"This data is unique both because of the remote location of the search area, and because of the sheer scale of the area surveyed," Dr Minchin said on Wednesday.

The data - packaged in maps at least 15 times higher resolution than what was previously available - was collected for the sole purpose of locating the aircraft but will be invaluable to the scientific community.

"This data will contribute to a greater understanding of the geology of the deep ocean and the complex processes that occur there," Dr Minchin said.

"It will be important for a range of future scientific research, including oceanographic and habitat modelling."

Data from the second stage of the search, which collected sonar, photographic and video images of particular points of interest, is expected to be released next year.


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Missing Flight MH370 Breakthrough Likely In 4 Years, Malaysia Airline CEO Says
BY SUMAN VARANDANI @SUMAN09 ON 07/26/17 AT 8:28 AM

A breakthrough in the disappearance of Flight MH370 could be made within the next four years, Malaysia Airlines CEO Peter Bellew said Wednesday. The flight went missing on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.

"(Given) the advances in scientific research around the location where the aircraft may have gone down ... I personally would be very surprised if in the next three or four years, we don't get a breakthrough. I think that's the timescale we're looking at," Bellew told CNBC.

Despite a multimillion-dollar search in remote parts of the southern Indian Ocean, the Boeing 777-200 could not be found. Several debris pieces also washed up at various locations but could not unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of the jet.

Last week, Australia released maps of the ocean floor where Flight MH370 was believed to have crashed. However, authorities have released information collected during the search of the plane in detailed maps of the sea floor, and which many scientists think could be useful in future ocean research.

The search for the plane was called off in January but Australian authorities said it’s possible the search could continue in the future if concrete evidence about the jet's location was found.

“We remain hopeful that new information will come to light and that at some point in the future the aircraft will be located,” Australia’s Transport Minister Darren Chester said earlier.

On July 13, Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) said two debris pieces found in the island nation of Seychelles could possibly be from the missing Flight MH370.

"The direction of flow of the sea currents make it likely that the (debris) came from the general direction where other parts (of MH370) have been found in Indian Ocean countries," a senior SCAA official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Reuters at the time. The SCAA said in a statement they contacted Malaysian authorities "who have shown an interest, and with whom we expect to work closely."

The plane's disappearance has also raised several conspiracy theories which went as far as a hijack or a terrorist attack. Some theorists also claimed the pilot of the plane may have deliberately crashed the plane.

In March, an independent analysis by a team of aviation and mathematical experts concluded the aircraft was in a “spiral dive” moments before it crashed into the ocean. The report confirmed the Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s conclusion about the plane’s final moments.

“Considering that the newly available data generally support the conclusions of the official investigators, it remains a mystery as to why Malaysia withheld the data for so long and why it chose to release the data at this time,” Victor Iannello of the Independent Group said, the West Australian reported..

Missing Flight MH370 Breakthrough Likely In 4 Years, Malaysia Airline CEO Says

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA —
A U.S. seabed exploration firm has offered to take on the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, families of passengers and a Malaysian government minister said Wednesday, in a bid to solve one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.

The Boeing 777 disappeared in 2014 en route to Beijing from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur with 239 people aboard. Analysis of radar and satellite contacts suggested someone on board may have deliberately switched off the plane's transponder before diverting it thousands of kilometers out over the Indian Ocean.

Australia, Malaysia and China called off an A$200 million ($159.16 million), two-year search for the plane in January, amid protests from families of those on board.

Grace Nathan, a Malaysian lawyer whose mother, Anne Daisy, was on the plane, told Reuters the U.S. company, Ocean Infinity, had offered to resume the search for free, and had asked for a reward only in the event that the aircraft was found.

Deputy Malaysian Transport Minister Aziz Kaprawi confirmed in a text message to Reuters that authorities had received the offer, but said no decision had been made on whether it would be accepted.

A spokesman for Ocean Infinity declined to comment. The company, on its website, said it had the world's most advanced fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles for use in seabed mapping, survey and search.

Narrower search

Last year, Australia and Malaysia rejected investigators' recommendations to extend the hunt by 25,000 square kilometers (9,653 square miles) north of the original search area in the southern Indian Ocean, saying the new location identified was too imprecise.

But Voice370, a support group for MH370 passengers' next of kin, said that Australian researchers had recently narrowed the likely search field to less than 25,000 sq km after extensive modeling and review.

The families, who launched a campaign to privately fund their own search in March, said they had suspended their plans, hoping that governments involved "would respond favorably and expeditiously" to Ocean Infinity's offer.

"In light of the narrowed search area and free-of-cost willing search party, the lack of communications from governments involved is very distressing for family members whose agony festers," Voice370 said in a statement on Tuesday.

Since the plane went missing, there have been competing theories about whether it was hijacked and whether it was under the control of anyone when it finally ran out of fuel.

https://www.voanews.com/a/firm-offer...r/3969782.html

Originally Posted by OhOh

An overflight of Diego Garcia may be the best bet so far. But some believe it would be a waste of time. Maybe a Chinese overflight would be on the cards as Britain, I presume they are still the sovereign entity that owns the coral reef, wouldn't want to upset the Chinese. Would the current renters behave so graciously?

Don't overcompensate.

Stick to the dose on the label, like the doctors told you.

The voltage has been upped recently

Originally Posted by Latindancer

The voltage has been upped recently

Clearly not enough.

Not enough amperage !

Originally Posted by Latindancer

Not enough amperage !

Exactly, amperage is the thing, volts are just the oil to get the amp buggers along the pipe.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

like the doctors told you

If you believe The Doctor you're somewhat open to him changing history and hence disaster is, just a twirl of his screwdriver, away.

Originally Posted by OhOh

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

like the doctors told you

If you believe The Doctor you're somewhat open to him changing history and hence disaster is, just a twirl of his screwdriver, away.

Actually I was referring to the team of frustrated mental health professionals that probably wish they could euthanise you.

Must be confident....

MH370 victims' relatives demand Malaysia accept 'win-win' search offer
US firm offers to start new search for free, only taking payment "if it finds main debris field" of plane missing since 2014.

The families of victims of the MH370 disaster are urging Malaysia to accept a 'no-win-no-fee'-style offer of a new search for the missing plane.

Voice370, a support group for families of the victims, said specialist US firm Ocean Infinity "would like to be paid a reward if and only if it finds the main debris field".

"Why hasn't Malaysia accepted this win-win offer?" the group said in a statement.

Grace Nathan, a Malaysian lawyer whose mother was on the plane, said: "We are constantly in limbo. They (authorities involved in the search) do not engage us. It is upsetting and frustrating. We are always kept in the dark."

The search for conclusive proof of where the Malaysian Airlines plane crashed was called off in January - nearly three years after the aircraft went missing after making a huge diversion from its flight-path from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March 2014.

Malaysia, Australia and China had together scoured 46,000 square miles (120,000 sq km) of remote seabed but failed to find any trace of the Boeing 777, which had 239 people on board. The cause of the crash remains a mystery.

Based on analysis of Boeing 777 debris that has washed up on western Indian Ocean beaches, it is believed that the flight most likely crashed in a different area.

The proposed new search zone is estimated to be 9,700 square miles (15,600 sq km) in size on the northern boundary of the last search zone, far southwest of Australia.

But the three countries say the newly-identified area is too big to justify resuming the publicly-funded search, which has already cost £123m.

Ocean Infinity, a US firm based in Houston, Texas, uses high-tech deep-sea drones fitted with sonar equipment the seabed at depths of up to 6,000m (19,700ft).

The company said of the deal it proposed in April: "Ocean Infinity have offered to take on the economic risk of a renewed search.

"We're in a constructive dialogue with the relevant authorities and are hopeful that the offer will be accepted," the company said.

Malaysian officials have not commented on the latest developments, but the country's Deputy Transport Minister Aziz Kaprawi previously said the agreement of China, where most of the passengers came from, and Australia, would be needed for a deal to be reached.

Only three fragments of MH370 have been found on western Indian Ocean shores, including a two-metre wing part known as a flaperon.

MH370 victims' relatives demand Malaysia accept 'win-win' search offer

Explosive new report virtually pinpoints location of missing flight MH370

STARTLING new evidence has virtually pinpointed the location of MH370 — 1258 days since it disappeared.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has today released an explosive new report that effectively narrows the search zone for the missing plane down to an area half the size of Melbourne.
GeoScience Australia has been examining four satellite images of objects floating on the southern Indian Ocean taken two weeks after the plane went missing in the area identified late last year as MH370’s likely resting spot.
They found 12 objects in those images that they deemed man-made and 28 that they regard as possibly man-made.


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