Official: Pings Not From FL 370's Black Boxes

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Last edited Wed May 28, 2014, 07:25 PM - Edit history (2)

Source: CNN

CNN Breaking News - Pings at center of Flight 370 search no longer thought to have come from black boxes, U.S. Navy official says.

Official: pings not from FL 370's black boxes

updated 6:28 PM EDT 05.28.14

By Rene Marsh and Mike M. Ahlers, CNN

MH370 search goes back to square one

(CNN) - The four acoustic pings at the center of the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 for the past seven weeks are no longer believed to have come from the plane's black boxes, a U.S. Navy official told CNN.


The acknowledgment came Wednesday as searchers wrapped up the first phase of their effort, having scanned 329 square miles of southern Indian Ocean floor without finding any wreckage from the Boeing 777-200.

Authorities now almost universally believe the pings did not come from the onboard data or cockpit voice recorders, but instead came from some other man-made source unrelated to the jetliner that disappeared on March 8, according to Michael Dean, the Navy's deputy director of ocean engineering.

If the pings had come from the recorders, searchers would have found them, he said.

Dean said "yes" when asked if other countries involved in the search had reached the same conclusions.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-pinging/

[AtheistCrusader]

1. Yeah, there are a lot of things that can make that noise.

Anything built to go in the ocean and be found again may have the same signal built in.

[SoCalMusicLover]

2. I Still Say Plane Was Taken

They INSISTED that it's in the area they were searching, even holding the pings up as evidence to this.

They did not want to admit they have No Clue as to where the plane is.

I tend to believe in conspiracy theories, when there is no other clear proof. They will never find this plane, and if they do, it might be after a terrorist attack, if it's being hidden somewhere in plans for one.

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Or, it could just be on the bottom of the ocean.

It is, after all, a big-assed ocean.

[alp227]

5. "I tend to believe in conspiracy theories, when there is no other clear proof." Really?

I understand why lots of people do that, due to dissatisfactory disclosure of info from authorities, but I acknowledge it ain't logical.

[jakeXT]

4. Well, they were 4kHz off

Experts said they were not concerned that the pings were detected at a frequency of 33.331 kHz, instead of the design frequency of 37.5.

"We're listening a little bit on either side of that (37.5 kHz) because pinger (frequencies) do drift," Dean said.

The pingers did have the same pulse rate as the MH370 pingers — one ping per second. Searchers "believe the signals to be consistent with the specification and description of a flight data recorder," Houston said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/08/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-ping-hunt/?hpt=hp_t1

[fadedrose]

6. Nobody who followed the 370 incident believed

that the search would yield anything.

Too many things were screwy. The plane turning around, the transponder shut off, the altitude changes, and then the plane continued to fly for 7 hours after that.

The location of the pings was unbelievable to this old lady and other logical people, and we all knew the search was a waste of time, even though Martin Savage in the simulator and the expert aviators were interesting to watch...

The contact between a cell phone in the cockpit and the phone tower - a handshake - made no sense either.

The fisherman who saw a low flying plane was characterized as unreliable because he said he even saw the plane's doors....something that Mary Sciavo said was impossible from the plane's height, but nobody knows what height the plane was when he saw it.

I'm not even sure I think they're all dead. Crazy people do crazy things, and kidnapping a person or persons is still not off the table. I hope they are alive and the experts coming to a conclusion that the plane is not in the Indian Ocean heading for the Antarctic brings them in line with this dummy.

My hope is still alive for them. We need a conclusion that at least makes sense, right or wrong, for the people on board, their families, and very nervous travelers everywhere.
The TV coverage is not what it was, but any news still grabs my attention, and it's the mystery of this age. We're no closer than we were the night they said goodnight to Malaysia....

[6000eliot]

7. Of course it's CNN.

Why did I even bother clicking to look?

[closeupready]

8. +1.