MH370 (cont.)

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  1. Angélique
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    Angélique aka Angel (only by name)

    Apologies not needed at all, I thought it was posted to discuss here, which is what we did.

    Picture from the article . . .

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    The scary thing is MH370 Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah looks like a normal and easy going guy to me . . :eek:
     
  2. Angélique
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    Yes, those were there too, which you've highlighted in post #75, so I've focused on the other info in the article, to bring some of that here as well.
     
  3. ImaginaryNumber
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    Four-year search for Flight 370 to end, leaving a mystery | Washington Post

    The four-year hunt for Flight 370 is coming to an end as private Texas-based contractor Ocean Infinity’s search vessel, equipped with underwater sonar drones, is expected to head back from the Indian Ocean amid rising costs and deteriorating weather. No precise date was provided by the search firm, but Malaysia’s new government hinted last week that the efforts would soon draw to a close.
     
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    MH370 search ship Seabed Constructor not ready to stop yet | News.com.au

    THEY’VE lost out on the MH370 finder’s fee of more than $90 million, but underwater exploration company Ocean Infinity is showing no sign of giving up on the lost plane.

    Over the past few days, the ship has been searching an area of the southern Indian Ocean where Chinese navy ship Haixun 01 detected a suspected black box “ping” less than a month after the plane vanished on March 8, 2014. On April 5, 2014, the Haixun 01 picked up two separate pulse signals at a latitude of 25 degrees South and 101 degrees East.
     
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    I'm surprised noone has done an independent drift analysis.

    Seems like it might hold some unique clues as well.
     
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    It might have done 4 years ago, but now? Would anything be left?
     
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    Ocean Infinity Donates Data to Seabed Mapping Project | Marine Technology News

    Texas-based surveying company Ocean Infinity has donated survey data from its search for missing Malaysian airliner MH370 to The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project which aims to map the entirety of the world’s ocean floor by 2030.

    The 120,000 square kilometers of data will be incorporated into the latest version of the global map of the ocean floor. So far, only a fraction of the ocean floor has been mapped with direct measurement....
     
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    They should make the data public in case anything was missed.
     
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    No Plane. No Remains. And Now, No Real Answers on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 | New York Times

    July 30, 2018
    The Malaysia has released the official government inquiry into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

    The report offered no conclusion on what caused the plane to veer off course, cease radio communications and vanish.

    The available evidence — including the plane’s deviation from its flight course, which tests showed was done manually rather than by autopilot, and the switching off of a transponder — “irresistibly point” to “unlawful interference,” which could mean that the plane was hijacked.

    Kok Soo Chon said investigators were “not of the opinion that it could have been an event committed by the pilot.”

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    Malaysia civil aviation chief resigns after final report into the disappearance of MH370 shows that air traffic control did not comply with standard procedures | Business Insider

    Jul. 31, 2018
    • The chief of Malaysia's civil aviation authority resigned on Tuesday July 31.
    • His resignation comes after an investigation report on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
    • The report showed the air traffic control centre in Kuala Lumpur had failed to comply with standard operating procedures.
     
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    Five years on, Malaysia open to proposals to resume hunt for missing flight MH370

    Malaysia's transport minister said Sunday that the government is open to new proposals from U.S. technology firm Ocean Infinity or any other companies to resume the hunt for Flight 370, as families of passengers marked the fifth anniversary of the jet's mysterious disappearance.....

    Plunkett said his company [Ocean Infinity] has better technology now after successfully locating an Argentinian submarine in November, a year after it went missing. He said the firm is still reviewing all possible data on Flight 370 and thinking about how it can revive its failed mission.....
     
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    Does anyone know how Ocean Infinity financed their previous MH370 search, and who eventually paid for it, or took the losses . . ? ?
     
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    Has anyone determined how big the pieces would be or the impact speeds based on the particles found?

    If the ocean currents carried a debris field for say ten miles or even 20 miles; seeking debris fields might be wiser. But can the cameras find small objects on the ocean floor? I really think reverse current mapping is the magic.
     
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    I believe the Indonesian government, airline, and insurance companies paid them a percentage of the full contract amount without the "prize" of finding the "crash site". I seriously doubt they took a loss on the job.
     
  14. Angélique
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    Based on what . . ?
    Indonesian . . ?
     

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    Sorry, brain buffer overflow.
     
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