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SpeedyVagabond 06-10-2014 08:03 PM


Originally Posted by atpcliff (Post 1661694)

I knew it! UFOs shot it down. Her reasons for not coming forward earlier don't even make any sense.

SpeedyVagabond 06-10-2014 08:08 PM


Originally Posted by blastoff (Post 1624958)
Mitch just got himself fired.

They, his Canadian flight school, fired him for appearing on TV dressed like Bob and Doug Mackenzie? Hosers.

iceman49 06-22-2014 07:17 PM

Malaysia Airlines pilot 'chief suspect' in plane's disappearance: authorities - NY Daily News

LaissezPaisser 06-27-2014 06:48 AM


Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes (Post 1623780)
They yanked half a submarine off the seafloor at 16,000' in the early 1970s and came back with a plan to get the rest of it, although it was foiled by the russians. It may take more time to recover stuff with slower robots and submersibles at those depths, but I'm sure it would get done.


Originally Posted by gdube94 (Post 1623784)
The Russians foiled it. Height of the Cold War. More things change.....
Seriously, thanks for the info.

Actually, the Russians didn't foil it. Thanks to recent declassification of many details about Project Azorian, we now know that the Hughes Glomar Explorer's retrieval claw failed because of Lockheed's design decision to use maraging steel, which, while very strong, proved too brittle to support the Soviet submarine's weight. Had they selected a more ductile metal, the claw may not have fractured, causing 2/3 of ascending the submarine to tumble back down to the ocean floor:

The capture vehicle failure thus appears to have been caused by both the last-minute offloading of another million pounds of weight onto the vehicle and the basic decision to employ maraging steel.
—Polmar & White (2010), "Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of the K-129"
Although the Soviets were tipped off that a CIA recovery operation was underway, and they did send ships to the area (two of which visited the Hughes Glomar Explorer's work site), the Russians 1) didn't know exactly where their sunken submarine was located, and 2) didn't believe recovery was actually possible. The Russian tracking ship and tug that visited Project Azorian's worksite didn't foil—or even significantly disrupt—the operation. They left the area before the Glomar's capture vehicle even reached the target object [=the sub]. Indeed, Project Azorian really only went totally sideways later, and for reasons entirely of our own making.

Lessons learned: Don't use a giant claw made of maraging steel if you want to resurrect MH370, in its entirety, from the ocean floor.

APC225 07-29-2015 08:56 AM

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Possible debris.

Toasty 07-29-2015 09:50 AM

The usual mainstream media caveats apply.

MH370: wreckage found on Reunion 'matches Malaysia Airlines flight' - Telegraph

iceman49 07-30-2015 04:24 AM

Australia: Reunion Island debris “consistent with analysis” of MH370 resting place
Karen Walker Jul 29, 2015
The Australian government has issued a statement on the discovery of debris on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean July 29 and which is being examined to determine whether it comes from missing Malaysia Airlines MH370, a Boeing 777-200.

The debris, measuring about 2 meters, appears similar to the wing flap of a large commercial airliner. Because the debris was retrieved on a French-owned island, it is now in the possession of French authorities.

In a statement late July 29 US time – July 30 in Australia – the Ministry for Infrastructure said, “the debris is being examined by experts to determine its origin. Malaysia is responsible for the investigation and is managing this examination with the assistance of Boeing, the BEA (Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile), the National Transportation Safety Bureau (US) and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.

“In the event that the wreckage is identified as being from MH370 on La Reunion Island, it would be consistent with other analysis and modelling that the resting place of the aircraft is in the southern Indian Ocean.

“Any new evidence will be used to further inform and refine ongoing search efforts.”

MH370 disappeared March 8, 2014, after apparently diverting far from its scheduled flight path from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. There were 239 people onboard. A massive search has been ongoing in the Indian Ocean after satellite data indicated the aircraft likely headed west, then south over the Indian Ocean, where it is believed to have eventually crashed. But there have been no findings of any part of the aircraft despite a massive search effort involving multiple countries, military forces, organizations and advanced technologies.

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Toasty 07-30-2015 11:48 AM

MH370 search: Reunion debris to be tested in France - BBC News

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iceman49 08-05-2015 12:20 PM

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0QA1KC20150805

http://abcnews.go.com/beta/Internati...ry?id=32901960

UAL T38 Phlyer 08-05-2015 01:23 PM

I still think the "constant radius from the satellite" theory is off, and that it crashed closer to Reunion, hence the debris.

The last three radar hits line up more with Reunion and Madagascar than Australia.

Malaysia is saying it is definitely Mh370; France is only saying it is definitely from a 777.


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