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ABOARD US NAVY P-8 POSEIDON, Indian Ocean, April 1 (Reuters) - O f all the 20 aircraft and ships out scouring the vast Indian Ocean for debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the U.S. Navy's P-8 Poseidon seems perhaps the most likely to help unlock modern aviation's most confounding mystery.
Five workstations lining the fuselage display high-definition video from the top-secret sensors that make this one of the most sophisticated surveillance planes in the world.
But the latest mission in the three-week hunt - five luckless hours skimming as low as 300 feet (90 metres) above the wave tops - only served to underscore the enormity of the challenge facing the international search team.
"This is my first time in the Indian Ocean and it is unquestionably the most untouched piece of water I have ever seen," U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander David Mims, the plane's pilot, told Reuters during a search flight this week.
"It's rare to come out and not see any land mass, not see any shipping traffic. There's nothing," he said. "It's weird."
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Now, wait just a dog-gone-minute. This region of ocean was characterized several times by the global media as a graveyard for storm tossed cargo that falls off of cargo ships. All that flotsam has been illustrated in photos like these: image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4,image5. The highlighted quote above suggests there is no cargo ship traffic to be seen. WTH?
Quote: "Frustratingly, the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has turned up many floating objects, but none of them are from the plane.
That’s largely because the latest search area is likely to be in one of the world’s hotspots for accumulated debris – an area nicknamed the Indian Ocean garbage patch."
So, the plane just happened to go down in the worst garbage patch in the ocean, a place whose complete saturation with floating debris makes it that much harder to find anything at all?
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Malaysia airliner search baffles even U.S. navy super plane
ABOARD US NAVY P-8 POSEIDON, Indian Ocean, April 1 (Reuters) - O f all the 20 aircraft and ships out scouring the vast Indian Ocean for debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the U.S. Navy's P-8 Poseidon seems perhaps the most likely to help unlock modern aviation's most confounding mystery.
Five workstations lining the fuselage display high-definition video from the top-secret sensors that make this one of the most sophisticated surveillance planes in the world.
But the latest mission in the three-week hunt - five luckless hours skimming as low as 300 feet (90 metres) above the wave tops - only served to underscore the enormity of the challenge facing the international search team.
"This is my first time in the Indian Ocean and it is unquestionably the most untouched piece of water I have ever seen," U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander David Mims, the plane's pilot, told Reuters during a search flight this week.
"It's rare to come out and not see any land mass, not see any shipping traffic. There's nothing," he said. "It's weird."
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Now, wait just a dog-gone-minute. This region of ocean was characterized several times by the global media as a graveyard for storm tossed cargo that falls off of cargo ships. All that flotsam has been illustrated in photos like these:
image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4,image5.
The highlighted quote above suggests there is no cargo ship traffic to be seen. WTH?
Where in the world is Diego Garcia?
Speculation about Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has put the tiny atoll of Diego Garcia on the map.
In further support of my comment @11:38:00 am, today's report characterizing MH370 ocean search region:
Searching for MH370 in a giant rubbish patch...
Quote: "Frustratingly, the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has turned up many floating objects, but none of them are from the plane.
That’s largely because the latest search area is likely to be in one of the world’s hotspots for accumulated debris – an area nicknamed the Indian Ocean garbage patch."
So, the plane just happened to go down in the worst garbage patch in the ocean, a place whose complete saturation with floating debris makes it that much harder to find anything at all?
What do you know?
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