So let see if I follow all this:
- The satellite system "handshakes" with the plane once per hour.
- The COMPANY WHO RUNS THE SATELLITE SYSTEM (who you'd think would know their shit) has figured out two possible flight corridors based on their handshake data, and then narrowed it down to the southern one.
- From this, they've determined the location of the plane the last time it pinged.
- That area is some FOUR HOURS flying time from the nearest land, meaning if it HAD made it to land, there should have been at least four more handshakes.
So what's so hard about accepting the VERY HIGH PROBABILITY that the plane went down in the ocean?
Add to this that the debris that HAS been spotted, turning up in approximately the same area pointed to by the satellite data... plus the statement that given the winds and tides, it would probably have drifted around 60km in the last two weeks (meaning, not that far against the scale of the ocean).
As far as people getting pissed off at the gov't for making the announcement... please, you think if they were full of shit and jumping the gun on their statement, you wouldn't hear from a bunch of other searchers and investigators stepping up and saying, "Wait a minute, that's not what we said..."??
To the assertion the Malaysian gov't is just making shit up because they look bad otherwise: and how does it look then, if they take this guess and then turn out to be wrong?
Besides, this might be a valid claim if they were the only ones looking... but there are a dozen or more different militaries and international search organizations looking as well - Australia's navy is the most involved at the moment because the presumed crash location is nearest their coast (and still four hours' flying time out to sea). The fact that NONE OF THESE OTHER OUTFITS have found anything concrete... "looks bad" on the Malaysian government and not on anyone else???
I get the idea that people don't fully grasp the vastness of the area involved - one report this morning said the search area is ABOUT THE SIZE OF NEW BRUNSWICK... and currently experiencing heavy rain and gale force winds. And it makes people "look bad" because they can't find a few floating scraps of a plane?
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they will find the plane, they will find the black box, and they will know what happened
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Really? And how do you figure that?
The Flight Data Recorder, IF it retains enough data, will only give information about the plane's actual route, what controls were being operated, basic stuff like that. It won't tell anyone WHY things happened they way they did... and the Cockpit Voice Recorder holds only the last, what, half hour or so of voice data? If, as suspected, the pilots were unconscious... all it will give up is silence right up until the sound of the plane hitting the ocean.
Fuck, people wanting to "blame" gov't and airline officials for all sorts of shit, but meantime people just keep blabbering on their wild theories based on bits and pieces of information they get from the news, just to hear themselves talk. Which is worse?