Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

For the love of god can we let the relevant authorities carry out their jobs and hopefully find the wreckage of this plane - primarily so that the families of all those aboard can have some closure and start the grieving process for real.

Has the whole operation been mismanaged? - undoubtedly, but does this mean that there is some sinister cover-up - unlikely. It is much more likely the result of many officials from different agencies and countries not sharing information, distrusting one another and sadly being simply incompetent.

Is it possible for the amateur sleuths from all walks of life to stop trying to play the expert and come up with one outlandish theory after another? In the era of 24hr rolling news and social media trying to fill the vacuum of a lack of actual facts with sheer pointless speculation can we not just have the patience to wait for the black boxes to be recovered and then work on some actual solid evidence as to what occurred with this flight?

The grainy photograph showing a large object measuring 72ft by 43ft bolstered hopes that the southern Indian Ocean may yet yield clues to one of the biggest mysteries in modern aviation history.

The new discovery was about 75 miles south of the original location – a distance which debris conceivably could have travelled in two days. Experts cautioned, though, that it remained a distinct possibility that both satellites had captured a lost shipping container, rather than a portion of the plane which disappeared off radar screens during an overnight flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March.

Oceanographer Dr Simon Boxall of the University of Southampton said the object spotted by the Chinese satellite was unlikely to be the same as one of two objects highlighted by the Australian authorities as it would have had to have travelled against the prevailing current.

However, he said it was conceivable that all three pieces of debris were remains of the plane as they could have drifted that far apart in the two weeks since the plane went missing. This scenario, Dr Boxall said, was “not unlikely”.

As the days drag by without flight MH370 being found, the costs continue to mount.

The Malaysian acting transport minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, has stated that finding the missing jet is the most important priority, with costs not yet being considered – but eventually someone must foot the bill. The International Civil Aviation Organisation said the location of the accident will determine which country has jurisdiction. Over international waters, the state where the aircraft was registered, in this case Malaysia, must foot the bill.

The US has said it has already spent more than $2.5m (£1.5m) of the $4m it has set aside for the search, with other countries providing aircraft and ships.

The cost of finding the wreckage of Air France flight AF447 in the Atlantic in 2009 was €32m (£27m).

(from The Independent)

^^^^......... and the pointless voyeuristic speculating goes on........

(23-03-2014 02:38 )Matt77 Wrote:  For the love of god can we let the relevant authorities carry out their jobs and hopefully find the wreckage of this plane - primarily so that the families of all those aboard can have some closure and start the grieving process for real.

Has the whole operation been mismanaged? - undoubtedly, but does this mean that there is some sinister cover-up - unlikely. It is much more likely the result of many officials from different agencies and countries not sharing information, distrusting one another and sadly being simply incompetent.

Is it possible for the amateur sleuths from all walks of life to stop trying to play the expert and come up with one outlandish theory after another? In the era of 24hr rolling news and social media trying to fill the vacuum of a lack of actual facts with sheer pointless speculation can we not just have the patience to wait for the black boxes to be recovered and then work on some actual solid evidence as to what occurred with this flight?

the families of the passengers probably aren't reading this forum so what does it matter if people wanna chat?

(23-03-2014 02:38 )Matt77 Wrote:  can we not just have the patience to wait for the black boxes to be recovered

IF the black boxes are recovered. As things stand that's a very big IF.

(23-03-2014 03:55 )way out west Wrote:  

(23-03-2014 02:38 )Matt77 Wrote:  can we not just have the patience to wait for the black boxes to be recovered

IF the black boxes are recovered. As things stand that's a very big IF.

You miss my main point entirely - stop the pointless speculation and paranoid conspiracy theories people.

(23-03-2014 04:28 )Matt77 Wrote:  

(23-03-2014 03:55 )way out west Wrote:  

(23-03-2014 02:38 )Matt77 Wrote:  can we not just have the patience to wait for the black boxes to be recovered

IF the black boxes are recovered. As things stand that's a very big IF.

You miss my main point entirely - stop the pointless speculation and paranoid conspiracy theories people.

why? if it's bothering you that much, avoid this thread. this is a forum mate, discussion is encouraged.

Does anyone know what the current status is of the Maldives sighting? That one seems to have gone quiet.

(23-03-2014 04:33 )terence Wrote:  

(23-03-2014 04:28 )Matt77 Wrote:  

(23-03-2014 03:55 )way out west Wrote:  

(23-03-2014 02:38 )Matt77 Wrote:  can we not just have the patience to wait for the black boxes to be recovered

IF the black boxes are recovered. As things stand that's a very big IF.

You miss my main point entirely - stop the pointless speculation and paranoid conspiracy theories people.

why? if it's bothering you that much, avoid this thread. this is a forum mate, discussion is encouraged.

Exactly it is discussion thread and it is encouraged Matt. We all have our own theories as tov what may haver happened and if we don't discuss/chat are we just going let the rolling media drag us along with it's own theories & such What is wrong with us discussing this putting our on thoughts out there and of course we all should have a degree of sympathy for the relatives involved, but above all this has to be one of the great mysteries of our time at present. I would go as far as to say that it could be possible that they may never recover the black boxes

(23-03-2014 05:54 )Glenn Miller Wrote:  Does anyone know what the current status is of the Maldives sighting? That one seems to have gone quiet.

That's what I wondered too. There has never been any confirmation of that sighting was a credible one.