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I agree with you 99%.Originally Posted by b1lk1
The only thing holding my mind back from that theory is that they are still saying that the hard turn directive to change course was entered into the plane's system 12 minutes prior to the final verbal transmission between pilot and ATC.
Now of course...there has been a ridiculous amount of conflicting information since the inception of this ordeal...so nobody knows what to believe at this point.
I read that the other day, makes perfect sense, but doesn't sell papers or get ratings.
Sounds like they may have found it far out in the Indian Ocean, where apparently there isn't a lot of air/sea travel.
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/03/19...-malaysian-jet
An update that brings more questions vs what it answers.
Latest I could find.
Warren Truss, Australia's deputy prime minister, answers media questions at Pearce air base in Western Australia where Orion planes of the Australian air force are leading the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. Photograph: Greg Wood/AFP/Getty
Australian rescuers have stepped up the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 as pressure mounts to find a plane that vanished two weeks ago and has defied the best efforts of modern technology to track it down.
Six planes including four Orion anti-submarine surveillance aircraft joined the search on Saturday for debris from the aircraft over a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean 1,500 miles (2,500km) south-west of Perth.
Chinese, British and Australian naval ships were all headed to the same area where two floating objects possibly plane wreckage were picked out on satellite pictures.
With planes from China and Japan also expected to join the hunt, the sudden concentration of resources on the basis of such inconclusive evidence reflects growing desperation after 14 days of piecemeal progress.
There have been no sightings of interest since Thursday when Australia released the satellite photos taken on 16 March.
Some experts warn the larger of the two objects measuring an estimated 24 metres (79 feet) across could be a shipping container, while the Australian deputy prime minister, Warren Truss, cautioned that any possible debris may have sunk.
"Something that was floating on the sea that long ago may no longer be floating. It may have slipped to the bottom," he said.
Truss said from Perth's north on Saturday afternoon that the Australian search effort had so far covered 190,000 square miles (500,000 sq km).
Truss said the 15 sorties flown from the Perth base so far mainly involved Australian and New Zealand Orion aircraft. US and civilian aircraft are also involved and will be joined by two Chinese aircraft that arrive in Perth on Saturday afternoon to begin searching on Sunday.
Japanese aircraft will take part on Monday and several vessels from around the world are en route to Western Australia to assist.
The Australian navy's HMAS Success was expected to reach the search area later on Saturday.
"This search is an intensive operation," Truss said. "While these aircraft are equipped with very advanced technology, much of this search is actually visual."
The search would go on as long as necessary, he said. "It is important from the perspective of those who have families, whose whereabouts are unknown ... and indeed for the future of the aviation industry that we do whatever we can to firstly confirm whether or not the sightings as a result of the satellite imagery are indeed connected in any way with the Malaysia Airlines flight," he said.
"And then if so, what can be recovered so we can learn more about what has happened on this flight and learn any lessons that are necessary to make sure this doesn't happen again."
Royal Australian Air Force Group Captain Craig Heap said the debris was a promising lead. "There's a reasonable chance of finding something," he said.
The Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, said: "It's about the most inaccessible spot that you can imagine on the face of the Earth but if there is anything down there we will find it.
"Now it could just be a container that's fallen off a ship. We just don't know but we owe it to the families and the friends and the loved ones to do everything we can to try to resolve what is as yet an extraordinary riddle."
After Australian and Malaysian officials hailed the satellite images as the most credible lead to date, failure to find anything soon will be a body blow to a search operation already tainted by false leads and dead ends.
Britain's Telegraph newspaper published what appeared to be the full transcript of communications between flight MH370's cockpit crew and air traffic control up until the moment it dropped off civilian radar.
The transcript, which ended with the final words "All right, good night" believed to have been spoken by the co-pilot contained no fresh clues to what diverted MH370 from its intended flight path from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March.
Malaysian investigators have stuck to their assumption that the change of course was the result of a deliberate action by someone on board.
Three scenarios have gained particular attention: hijacking, pilot sabotage and a sudden mid-air crisis that incapacitated the flight crew and left the plane to fly on auto-pilot for several hours until it ran out of fuel and crashed.
Finding wreckage in the remote southern Indian Ocean would undermine the hijacking theory, which many of the relatives of the 227 passengers on board continue to cling to.
Sarah Bajc, the partner of American passenger Philip Wood, voiced concern that the sudden focus on a particular section of the Indian Ocean was happening at the expense of a land search along a northern route the plane may have taken over south and central Asia.
"I believe, and I think many people believe, the passengers are being held for some other purpose. But so far that doesn't seem to be listened to," Bajc told CNN.
"If there's a chance it was taken by an abductor of some sort then we should be putting at least some of our resources towards looking on land."
On Friday five planes including military P3 Orions criss-crossed 8,800 square miles of ocean without any sightings of wreckage. The search area has since been widened.
The distance from Australia's west coast allows the Orions only about two hours of actual search time before they must turn around with enough fuel to get back to Perth.
Two ultra long-range commercial jets brought into use on Saturday can stay in the area for five hours.
"With any luck we'll find something shortly," said Australian Flight Lieutenant Russell Adams.
As it enters its third week the search for MH370 has become one of the longest and largest in modern aviation history.
No confirmed wreckage was ever found of a Korean Air jetliner that exploded in mid-air over the Andaman Sea in 1987 as the result of a bomb placed on board by North Korean agents.
Expectations based on advances in technology, coupled with the modern era's relentless 24-hour media coverage, would seem to rule out public acceptance of the idea that MH370 will never be found. "This is going to be a long-haul effort," said the Malaysian transport minister, Hishammuddin Hussein.
Scott Hamilton, managing director of US-based aviation consultancy Leeham Co, said the investigation would continue for as long as it takes, partly because there may be a criminal act involved. "Worse, if this is some kind of terror event that is a precursor to something bigger in the future, authorities will presumably do all they can to make this determination and work to prevent it whatever 'it' is."
Malaysia has asked the FBI to help recover data it said was deleted from a home flight simulator belonging to the plane's chief pilot, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, but otherwise no evidence has emerged to implicate him or the crew.
Does anyone else find it strange the the USA sent their Frigate back after only a few days in the search?
Nothing about whats transpired to date isn't strange. Kath was recently on vaca and yes came back by plane. Don't know how I'd handle not knowing if something similar had happened.
Thoughts and prayers for all involved.
They are saying its in the Indian Ocean
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/chine...t-indian-ocean
Sad if its true. I was still hoping that there would be a miracle and they would be found on an island or something.
^^ As did I.
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