JerseyGirl thanks for the picture.:seeya:
Yeah, they have taken the picture down it appears, but Thanks to JerseyGirl we have it here.
I am still able to click on the "jpdaily" link and see the full set of four photos of the men in the dingy.
JerseyGirl thanks for the picture.:seeya:
Yeah, they have taken the picture down it appears, but Thanks to JerseyGirl we have it here.
No "wreckage" pictures?![]()
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 flew around Indonesian airspace apparently to avoid detection after vanishing from radar screens on March 8, a media report said on Sunday, suggesting the possibility of a more sinister reason behind the jet's disappearance.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...id-radar-report-says/articleshow/33342854.cms
The only thing of interest that I have heard today regarding the flight simulator is that the pilot had been "practicing" emergency landings. Not seeing anything unusual about that. Maybe I missed something!
I posted this yesterday.
Chinese air force plane spots new floating objects in south Indian Ocean
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Photo taken on April 5, 2014 shows a piece of white floating object spotted by Chinese air force in the southern Indian Ocean. A Chinese air force plane searching for missing Malaysian passenger jet MH370 spotted a number of white floating objects in the search area Saturday. The plane photographed the objects over a period of 20 minutes after spotting them at 11:05 local time. (Xinhua/Huang Shubo)
more pics:
http://english.cntv.cn/2014/04/05/ARTI1396699509241655.shtml
How many black boxes are there? And, if two, could they possibly be 300 miles apart?
A flight data recorder (FDR) (also ADR, for accident data recorder) is an electronic device employed to record any instructions sent to any electronic systems on an aircraft. It is a device used to record specific aircraft performance parameters. Another kind of flight recorder is the cockpit voice recorder (CVR), which records conversation in the cockpit, radio communications between the cockpit crew and others (including conversation with air traffic control personnel), as well as ambient sounds.
Thomas Altshuler, the vice president and general manager for Teledyne Marine Systems, said the device pictured in the photographs is a DPL-275 diver pinger locator and is intended for use in relatively shallow water. He said it is mainly intended for use by a diver, though it can also be used mounted to a pole or a boom and held over the side of a boat, the method apparently used by the crew of the Haixun 01.
But he was very cautious about whether the device could be used to successfully detect a pinger that was thousands of feet below the surface.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight-370.html?hp&_r=0
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 flew around Indonesian airspace apparently to avoid detection after vanishing from radar screens on March 8, a media report said on Sunday, suggesting the possibility of a more sinister reason behind the jet's disappearance.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...id-radar-report-says/articleshow/33342854.cms
The bolded items is something I am going to take away from this plane disaster. It is horrifying to think about and much more serious than I ever thought.
I never realized there was a limited supply of oxygen before. And I never realized how fast we had better get on those masks if there is ever decompression.
The next time I ever fly when the stewardess goes through the safety briefing I am going to pay attention to where that mask should drop from and if there is ever a decompression I am going to be one of the first ones to grab my mask and be sure to start breathing that O2. Then will begin to look out window and hope the pilot descends to 10000 feet quickly.
When they calculated the 10 minutes of O2 they give people I hope they took into account we all will be in panic mode and will be consuming the O2 at a rate of 4 to 5 times normal. :floorlaugh:
I'm cautiously optimistic
It wouldn't be luck at all. The Chinese are very, very technologically advanced. They spend tons on their military. This wouldn't be like Burma saying the found it from a little boat like the silly one pictured
I don't blame the Chinese at all for going their own way with the search. Good for them. I hate it when searches and things are very insular (total line-of-command and all that). Maybe their physicists came up with a different spot, slightly. That's very possible. Those calculations involve many possible answers especially if we're talking about hundreds of miles, and the one right one can't be found without having more information. So the best we get mathematically is a best fit (an educated guess).
But always remember the subs! Very, very stealth subs, military ones areI've been sure there were subs searching from nations that don't tell where their subs are (like the US doesn't). That really is often classified information for many countries. Nope, I can't blame China a bit if they found it and this is how it looks, lol. I hope they did!
Except for that part about who gets to keep the black box, but I think the US corners the market on the kinds of vessels that can retrieve it at great depths, so here's keeping our fingers crossed on that aspect.
Was posted way earlier in one of the threads that packages for flight simulators have all kinds of landing strips, Diego Garcia included. I think Derryn posted on this subject.
Rolls-Royce and Boeing should be more involved in handling the case instead of letting MAS alone to face the media and grieving family members, said Advanced Air Traffic System (AAT) Sdn Bhd.
Its chairman Datuk Zolkipli Abdul said Rolls-Royce as the engine maker and Boeing, the aircraft manufacturer are both liable to answer for the incident as the investigations have not ruled out their involvement with the incident yet.
"We have been seeing MAS handling the press conferences alone and answering on behalf of Boeing and Rolls-Royce all these while and it seems like they are trying to put the burden of proof on MAS alone."
http://www.nst.com.my/latest/font-c...hould-be-more-involved-1.551330#ixzz2y4JuTtnf
The only thing of interest that I have heard today regarding the flight simulator is that the pilot had been "practicing" emergency landings. Not seeing anything unusual about that. Maybe I missed something!
Is it rude to be logged in here, and nod off for 8-9hrs, after having selected the "remember me" button? Does that waste bandwidth or something?