Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Big news today with a statement by the search team that they have nearing the end of the search of the current 60,000 square kilometre search zone and when they are finished the whole operation will be called off.

More than 50,000 of the 60,000 square kilometres have already been searched without any sign of the missing jet and the searchers say that without any new leads they won't widen the search to any other area.

So basically unless the plane is found before the end of the current search it will never ever be found. End of story.

A theory put forward today by Bruce Robertson, a pilot and aviation engineer.

The lithium ion batteries in the cargo hold start to react, flooding the plane with deadly carbon monoxide. The pilots turn the plane back to the west and begin a descent with the intent of landing, but succumb to the carbon monoxide and the plane’s automation takes over the next several hours. As the plane is blind to the world (and the world is blind to the plane), the plane flies in a very large radius left turn, the exponential spiral path first proposed in March 2014. The plane crashes into the Southern Indian Ocean west of the Zenith Plateau, west of Exmouth Australia. This is at roughly 21 degrees south, 103 degrees east.

"So, there you have it — no conspiracies, no evil intent, no fuzzy pictures, just a simple industrial accident that took a while to play out due to automation trying to save the situation," said Robertson.

Is it possible that the search won't be abandoned after all? China and Malaysia are arguing that the search for the missing plane should continue, although Australia say they have borne most of the costs so far and can't be expected to pay for the operation any longer.

Yes the 3 countries conducting the search have decided to carry on after all. The search will pause for winter soon, but will resume in the spring.

Debris has been found just of the coast of madagascar

The Island where it was found isn't far outside the 7 hours max. possible flight radius and almost due west of the area searched on April 4.

It's a sizeable piece of debris...

(29-07-2015 18:28 )Tumble_Drier Wrote:  The Island where it was found isn't far outside the 7 hours max. possible flight radius and almost due west of the area searched on April 4.

It's a sizeable piece of debris...

its also on the outskirts of the Indian ocean gyre and the wreckage will have been swirling round that for nearly 18 months. Wreckage from the Japanese Tsunami was turning up on Candaninan and US beacher 9 months after because of the pacific gyre

Could even be a part of sevrel crashes in that area in the last couple of years

it is a sizable chunk looks like a flap from one of the wings

Only 1 Boeing 777 has ever been lost at sea so it shouldn't be too difficult to prove 1 way or the other.

One report said there was a reference number or part number on the item, BB670, which therefore will provide a definitive answer.