Malaysia flight MH370

[737tdi]

For any of y'all keeping up with this Boeing 777 accident it looks like they may have found a bit of it. Can it possibly be true? I just don't know but it sure would be nice to know what the heck happened to this aircraft. Being in commercial aviation unknowns are never good. Hopefully they will find the aircraft as well.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-official-debris-indian-ocean-010424525.html

This is just one of the articles out today about it.


Karl

 

[coach]

A PBS documentary I saw last week condensed when and what is known about the dissapearance. Of course no answers were given, but it seems unlikely that the accident was just that. Too many things happened at just the right times. No motives or claims by terrorists have come to light though.

 

[graygun]

The FDR battery had been expired for over a year so I'm wondering if it's a maint-related tragedy. Report said the cockpit voice recorder was working so why not the FDR? Looks like a poor maintenance history.

 

[pete44ru]

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The wing section (airleon/rudder ?) was discovered in the Western Indian Ocean, an island East of Madagasgar.

It's my WAG that, given the elapsed time, and the counter-clockwise Indian Ocean currents, that the plane came down in the area Northwest from Australia, South of Kuala Lumpur.

Time will tell if I'm right/wrong.




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[GunnyGene]

I seriously doubt they'll find any pieces that don't wash up on some beach. The Indian ocean is over 18,000ft deep in large parts of it, and whatever is on the bottom is probably mostly covered with silt by now. I think the best they'll find out is that this piece was part of that plane.

 

[eveled]

It could have been planted on the beach to make us believe it crashed.

 

[Bull Barrel]

Thats my thoughts. Heard on the news this morning the suitcase found hasn't been in water very long.

 

[737tdi]

It could have been planted on the beach to make us believe it crashed.

It will be very easy to determine if the flight control belongs to that particular aircraft, either by a part id. tag on the part, which will include a serial no. or by manufacture dates on sub parts used to assemble the flight control. All major aircraft components, including flight controls, are very traceable.

Karl