On a day when the future of the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 appeared in doubt, a new computer analysis of ocean drift patterns, tracing the possible paths of debris from the Boeing 777-200 found off the coast of southeastern Africa, shows that the entire search effort may have been wasted — because the area where searchers are combing the ocean floor is not where the plane went down.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 suddenly cut off communications and vanished on March 8, 2014, as the plane flew en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Based on satellite data, authorities concluded that the plane made an unexplained seven-hour detour, flying west until the flight ended in the Indian Ocean in an area about 1,200 miles off the coast of Perth, Australia, that authorities from Australia, Malaysia, and China — who are cooperating in the search effort — dubbed “The Seventh Arc.”
On Friday, Malaysia Transportation Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said that the search effort in that area of about 120,000 square kilometers or more than 46,000 square miles — an area nearly the size of the country of England — would continue, but that officials from the three countries in charge of the search would meet on July 19 to assess the future of the Flight MH370 search effort.
“We will not call off for the search. We are committed to complete the 120,000 square kilometer search,” Liow said. “So far, we have completed 107,000 square kilometers. We will make an announcement on the way forward.”
But the newest computer analysis by statistician and independent Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 researcher Brock McEwen appears to show that the plane is nowhere near that 46,000 square mile area.
But the new McEwen study examined ocean drift patterns of debris in the Indian Ocean to trace the origin of the 13 pieces of known and suspected MH370 debris that have been located so far — all of them found by tourists and other private citizens not connected with the official search effort — and found that while all 13 pieces could have originated from numerous locations in the Indian Ocean, none of those possible crash sites overlapped with the current official search area.
01/07/16 Inquisitr
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 suddenly cut off communications and vanished on March 8, 2014, as the plane flew en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Based on satellite data, authorities concluded that the plane made an unexplained seven-hour detour, flying west until the flight ended in the Indian Ocean in an area about 1,200 miles off the coast of Perth, Australia, that authorities from Australia, Malaysia, and China — who are cooperating in the search effort — dubbed “The Seventh Arc.”
On Friday, Malaysia Transportation Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said that the search effort in that area of about 120,000 square kilometers or more than 46,000 square miles — an area nearly the size of the country of England — would continue, but that officials from the three countries in charge of the search would meet on July 19 to assess the future of the Flight MH370 search effort.
“We will not call off for the search. We are committed to complete the 120,000 square kilometer search,” Liow said. “So far, we have completed 107,000 square kilometers. We will make an announcement on the way forward.”
But the newest computer analysis by statistician and independent Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 researcher Brock McEwen appears to show that the plane is nowhere near that 46,000 square mile area.
But the new McEwen study examined ocean drift patterns of debris in the Indian Ocean to trace the origin of the 13 pieces of known and suspected MH370 debris that have been located so far — all of them found by tourists and other private citizens not connected with the official search effort — and found that while all 13 pieces could have originated from numerous locations in the Indian Ocean, none of those possible crash sites overlapped with the current official search area.
01/07/16 Inquisitr
