[Kizzy]

Within the hour, Vietnamese search and rescue vessels are due to reach a suspicious floating object spotted 100km south-southwest of Vietnam’s Tho Chu island.

The object is yellow, according to Wall Street Journal reporter Vu Trong Khanh, and was first spotted by Singapore’s search and rescue force.

More than 40 ships and 22 aircraft from a number of countries are scouring the South China Sea for any sign of the vessel.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...on-widens-live

[Kizzy]

The floating object spotted 100km south-southwest of Vietnam’s Tho Chu island is not wreckage from flight MH370, US officials have told CNN.

[Novo]

You would have thought they'd have found it by now

[arista]

Originally Posted by Novo

You would have thought they'd have found it by now

No as if a plane goes
low down - there is no radar able to pick it up
so it lost tracking over the sea.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by arista

No as if a plane goes
low down - there is no radar able to pick it up
so it lost tracking over the sea.

What about the people tracking on or under the sea, you would have thought they would have spotted it?

Originally Posted by arista

No as if a plane goes
low down - there is no radar able to pick it up
so it lost tracking over the sea.

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So when a plane is coming in to land, it would also disappear from radar? I don't think so, Arista.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Jesus.

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So when a plane is coming in to land, it would also disappear from radar? I don't think so, Arista.

No this was out at sea. Low Flying is not picked up on radar while over sea
many planes have gone missing that way

Not Like Land radar


this was pointed out on BBCNews

[arista]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

What about the people tracking on or under the sea, you would have thought they would have spotted it?

Not yet as the Sea has moved it.

[Z]

Very strange...

[arista]

Originally Posted by Zee

Very strange...

But they have got two passengers
that were bogus
so Until they are worked out (were they criminals or did they take a bomb?)
they are not ruling out Terrorism



A Vietnamese search and rescue plane has spotted what could be floating debris from the missing aircraft.

http://news.sky.com/story/1222942/ma...ragments-found

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Jesus.

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So when a plane is coming in to land, it would also disappear from radar? I don't think so, Arista.

Planes actually are lost in "clutter" as they come in to land, although the reason they're not visible when flying low out at sea is different, and has to do with the curve of the earth and Radar shadow. Arista is actually correct, believe it or not! Hence the term, "flying beneath the radar".

[Ammi]

..they've ruled out the debris sightings, so they're still not close to finding anything....


http://news.sky.com/story/1223246/ma...-unprecedented

[Novo]

Unreal, they don't even have any kind of indication for it could be even now

[Ammi]

..they're talking about it possibly disintegrating mid-air..I'm not sure what would cause that...

[arista]

That Tragic French plane years back (flight 447)


They found out a few years later , that was low to the sea (before going under)
and the Young Co-Pilot messed up his controls.
(the black box gave all the data)

[Ammi]

..it has been described as an 'unprecedented mystery'..probably because with Flight 447, I think there was a distress call just before it crashed but with this, there was nothing...



http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A2701720140310

[Nedusa]

I would thought they would be able to locate the bulk of the wreckage when they find the flight recorders as these give off signals which can be used to locate them.

Only problem might be wreckage is lying in very deep water in which case signal might be too weak to detect.

With no large spread of wreckage chances are plane did not explode in mid air but then if there was a problem and the plane lost altitude surely the pilots would have issued a mayday call.

It is a bit of a mystery.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Nedusa

I would thought they would be able to locate the bulk of the wreckage when they find the flight recorders as these give off signals which can be used to locate them.

Only problem might be wreckage is lying in very deep water in which case signal might be too weak to detect.

With no large spread of wreckage chances are plane did not explode in mid air but then if there was a problem and the plane lost altitude surely the pilots would have issued a mayday call.

It is a bit of a mystery.

..yeah, it's the absence of a Mayday call that's really baffling..has there ever been a case when there hasn't been one...

[Nedusa]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..yeah, it's the absence of a Mayday call that's really baffling..has there ever been a case when there hasn't been one...

One possibility of course is that hijackers entered the cockpit and silenced the pilots, once in they could of course deliberately then crash the plane which could result in less wreckage than a mid air explosion.

[Livia]

They could have had a complete systems failure and been hundred of miles off course. There are a lot of reasons this might happen. I'm sure they'll find out soon.

I'm a bit of a fan of air crash investigation, and loads of crashes have happened in the past without an alarm being raised.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Jesus.

I'm a bit of a fan of air crash investigation, and loads of crashes have happened in the past without an alarm being raised.

The best Docu was on Ch4HD
showing the Co-Pilot Error
on the the Tragic French Flight 447.
1 June 2009

[Z]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Planes actually are lost in "clutter" as they come in to land, although the reason they're not visible when flying low out at sea is different, and has to do with the curve of the earth and Radar shadow. Arista is actually correct, believe it or not! Hence the term, "flying beneath the radar".

I didn't know that! You learn something new every day!

[Niamh.]

So far this is all they found of the plane

Spoiler:

[Z]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

So far this is all they found of the plane

Spoiler: