Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Missing - Page 41

On April 05 2014 00:53 FFW_Rude wrote:

Do you have a source of the pieces not part from the plane ?

On April 05 2014 20:47 digmouse wrote:
It is reported that a Chinese search vessel detected a signal of 37.5KHz frequency pulsing every second in Southern Indian Ocean, which is indeed the behavior of a Black Box's Underwater Locating Beacon.
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2014-04-05/185029872980.shtml (Chinese with news video from CCTV)

On April 06 2014 06:11 Whole wrote:
Where did you get that underwater map?

Conference has ended. Here are the major takeaways since I was editing my previous post and you may not have seen all the changes.

1. Three separate acoustic events they are looking at right now:
a. one by Haixun 01 on Friday night Perth time that was of a "short" duration;
b. a second event of about 90 seconds at 15.47 Saturday Perth time also by Haixun 01 about 2km distant from first detection; and,
c. a third event about 90 minutes before the start of the press conference (Sunday, about 10am Perth time) by the Ocean Shield, about 300 nm away from the Haixun's location.

2. The Haixun's events were described as being "consistent" with ULBs. There was no information about the Ocean Shield's detection yet.

3. Based on revisions from Inmarsat, the plane is more likely to be in the southern portion of the current search zone. This is where the Haixun 01 heard the pings on Friday and Saturday.

4. HMS Echo is en route to Haixun 01's location and will be there within 14 hours.

5. Ocean Shield will remain on station until at least early afternoon Sunday Perth time to investigate the acoustic event they heard on Sunday morning Perth time. If they do decide it's nothing, it will take about 2-3 hours to retrieve the towed pinger locator, about 24 hours to reach the Haixun's location, and about 2-3 hours to redeploy the locator.

6. The Australians first heard about the Friday event from media, and were informed shortly thereafter officially by China. The second event was first communicated to the Australians and then media reports broke.

On April 06 2014 13:04 Antisocialmunky wrote:
It looks like the Ocean Shield (the AU ship with the US towed pinger locator) picked up a signal 90 minutes ago north of where the Chinese were at. This was at the live press conference so reports in writing haven't been thrown up on CNN yet.

https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC/status/452656878762201088

Apparently the Chinese have picked up the signal yet again (this is referring to the Saturday morning).

https://twitter.com/CNNjoe/status/452659895947374593

I think at this point its kinda doubtful that they are getting trolled by a whale or anything. I guess we should be cautiously optimistic now.

Edit: I stole the maps from http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/535538-malaysian-airlines-mh370-contact-lost-464.html.

The guys on this forum know a lot, one guy even took part in a similar search a few decades ago. You can read his opinion of the current search here (its interesting regardless):

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/535538-malaysian-airlines-mh370-contact-lost-462.html#post8418871

Edit 2: Apparently the CNN twitter is referring to the the 90 second pick up by the Chinese yesterday.

Edit:3:

The AU signal pickup by the Ocean Shield was 300 nm north so it may be a false positive unless water conditions are permitting it to travel extremely far.

From http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/6045158/#292

On April 07 2014 17:37 FFW_Rude wrote:
IS this thing updated => http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/missing-flight-mh370-live-updates-3363920

Or was it just for the 5th ?

On April 06 2014 07:52 Yourmomsbasement wrote:

I was wondering too. Very neat.

On April 07 2014 18:14 Arevall wrote:


And I was wondering too. Here it is: http://www.maps.com/map.aspx?cid=636&pid=15898