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Search For Missing Malaysian Plane Could Take Years
The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 could take years, US Navy officials suggested yeaterday, as search and rescue officials raced to locate the plane’s black box recorder days before its batteries are set to die.
Ten ships and as many aircraft are searching a massive area in the Indian Ocean west of Perth, trying to find some trace of the aircraft, which went missing more than three weeks ago and is presumed to have crashed.
The chief of the China Maritime Search and Rescue Center, He Jianzhong, told the Xinhua state news agency no objects linked to the plane had been found yesterday, and that Chinese vessels would expand their search area.Numerous objects have been spotted in the two days since Australian authorities moved the search 1,100 km after new analysis of radar and satellite data concluded the Boeing 777 travelled faster and for a shorter distance after vanishing from civilian radar screens on March 8th. None has been confirmed as coming from Flight MH370.
USNavy Captain Mark Matthews, who is in charge of the US Towed Pinger Locator (TPL), told journalists at Stirling Naval Base near Perth that the lack of information about where the plane went down seriously hampers the ability to find it.
“Right now the search area is basically the size of the Indian Ocean, which would take an untenable amount of time to search,” he said.
“If you compare this to Air France flight 447, we had much better positional information of where that aircraft went into the water,” he said, referring to a plane that crashed in 2009 near Brazil and which took more than two years to find.
The US Navy cannot use the pinger locator and other sonar used to listen for the beacons on the aircraft’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders until “conclusive visual evidence” of debris is found, US Navy spokesman Commander William Marks told CBS’ “Face the Nation” programme.
If no location is found, searchers would have to use sonar to slowly and methodically map the bottom of the ocean, he said. “That is an incredibly long process to go through. It is possible, but it could take quite a while,” he said.
Among the vessels to join the search is an Australian defence force ship, the Ocean Shield, that has been fitted with a sophisticated US black box locator and an underwater drone.
Australia, which is coordinating the search in the southern Indian Ocean, said it had established a new body to oversee the investigation and issued countries involved in the search a set of protocols to abide by should any wreckage be found.
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Kepusha Takolelwe Bowa
March 31, 2014 at 10:52 am
Mwe Lesa twafweni. I think there is need for God’s intervention. we pray that the debris be found so that hearts of the beloved families will rest. Cos as it is one may think nalimo my wife or husband or daughter or son or auntie or uncle or grand child is still alive. But once it will be confirmed that the wreckage has been discovered with skeletons then peoples’ minds will be at rest.
Pastor Bling bling
March 31, 2014 at 6:26 pm
Religious people ask me ” Why are we here ?”
I say to them “I’m here because my parents had sex… and that’s the only reason”
SEKOPONOKE
April 1, 2014 at 2:50 pm
You are mad pastor bling bling really maad!
Pastor Bling bling
March 31, 2014 at 6:39 pm
Religion is a fairy tale.
troa
March 31, 2014 at 12:27 pm
I suspect it went over Bermuda Triangle
cecili
March 31, 2014 at 1:50 pm
I thot da man of God(TB Joshua)prophesized wer’ da plane is,o mayb i was dreamin?
Prophet
March 31, 2014 at 5:11 pm
tb. Joshua is not a man of God, litole fye elyo mambala ni conman wakapela makufi.
Accumen
March 31, 2014 at 3:06 pm
Imwe ba ***** ba tumfweko why most of the time when I post my comment they disappear.
Accumen
March 31, 2014 at 3:16 pm
These pastors are taking advantage of African superstitious nature should wake up people, they will drag u into poverty after they have made their money out of u. Try to apply science as much as we should not forget about God.
Disaster
March 31, 2014 at 4:02 pm
the story about this plane just gives me the creeps. sad for the lost souls. what a death.
yongwe
March 31, 2014 at 6:19 pm
TB said last week the palne would be found…what just happened?
Pastor Bling bling
March 31, 2014 at 6:31 pm
Do you believe in an invisible muzungu god in the sky?
Wise Man
March 31, 2014 at 9:05 pm
Anyone with a small pin charger?
chabo !
April 1, 2014 at 11:05 pm
come and get i have a BIG PIN charger !
xx rated
March 31, 2014 at 9:47 pm
Where is TB so i can hang him from his lips? Cheap god, no direction wasata fimbi.
Which sunday? twebe fulwe.
xx rated
March 31, 2014 at 9:50 pm
TB die hards come out or you are switching to sangomas, they are reliable than TB JOSHUA, wabufi kabolala.
killian
March 31, 2014 at 10:25 pm
Tumfweko may you please block people who comment crap!
UN
March 31, 2014 at 10:33 pm
Because your gods claims are rendered meaningless?
Why should they not block brain washed die hards from misleading people?
Is what xx rated saying a lie?
Who lied between TBj and xx rated?
True prophecy does not require backups, its true and accurate, read your bibles, TB is far from being a prophet of GOD.
NOW ASK YOUR TUMFWEKO TO BLOCK THIS COMMENT, NONSENSE.
chibs lec
March 31, 2014 at 10:30 pm
God help us find the plane
ndindindi
March 31, 2014 at 10:53 pm
Kalota tb joshua where is your god? Maybe he is slipn, please shout so that he can change your prophecy!
diamond platinum
March 31, 2014 at 11:48 pm
Pastor Bling bling,the bible tells us to respect our parents.now are you respecting your parents?bushe iwe amano yali pakafye bwino bwino?leka ukulinga ubupuba pachitu bwigi.if you insult me,kupwishanya
Ipono Ba kamba
April 1, 2014 at 12:22 am
Let us jst pray for the pipo on the missin plane, than accusing one another.
FIELD MARSHALL
April 1, 2014 at 1:24 am
BA tumfweko,are U truely telling me that some of this brainless individuals can’t be blocked,for the sake of sanity?my prayer is that may GOD help the people searching to locate the plane or whatever……..plz,plz,plz.AMEN.
xx rated
April 1, 2014 at 10:26 am
WANYA, WHO FORCED YOU TO BELIEVE IN TV JOSHUA?
xx rated
April 1, 2014 at 10:31 am
Mwamonekela bonse naka lesa kobe (tbj) mulibabufi, nothing you exhibit is real, sto believing in a dead god (tbj).
Muleumfwa shani ifi abepele tafichitike?
Balimigonga.
He has finally run out ideas, shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DIP STICK
April 1, 2014 at 9:37 am
THIS PLANE IS LIKELY TO HAVE LANDED ESPECIALLY IN THE OCEAN WITHOUT DISINTEGRATING OR BREAKING TO PIECES AND SUNK INTACT.
THERE MAY NOT BE DEBRIS AVAILABLE OR IF THERE IS, IT COULD BE VERY NEGLIGIBLE.
Zambia1
April 1, 2014 at 12:56 pm
@Pastor Bling Bling, it would be wise to reflect on your comments before spreading them across the web. That you are here because your parents(Parents had sex is too shameful to conclude. Think before you say something. Ask yourself why you are here. Others are saying, “the belief in a white God” who told you God is muzungu???????. On TB Joshua’s missing plane prophecy, the man is a common crook period.
killian
April 1, 2014 at 8:07 pm
Guys stop blasphemy!!!
P1
April 2, 2014 at 6:51 am
Clive Chirwa on Muvi tv said if the plane had nose dived and it on the seabed it can take 2years.