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(12,047 posts) Mon Oct 6, 2014, 12:26 PM Oct 2014

Search resumes for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 [View all]

The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 entered a new phase Monday with the resumption of underwater search efforts for the aircraft that mysteriously vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing six months ago.

Until now experts had been concentrating on mapping the seabed in the southern Indian Ocean search zone where the plane carrying 239 people is believed to have crashed.

The Malaysian-contracted GO Phoenix vessel, the first of three search ships, has now arrived in the area and is scanning the ocean floor for the jet, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said.

Two additional vessels – equipped with sonar, video cameras and jet-fuel sensors – will join the GO Phoenix in coming weeks. Each ship will be staffed with 25-35 people working around the clock exploring the 23,000 square-mile search area.

The Ocean’s average depth of 2.5 miles has complicated recovery efforts.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/10/6/mh370-search-renews.html

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Search resumes for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 [View all] Baclava Oct 2014 OP

Good, that will give CNN something to gnaw on besides Ebola. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2014 #1

ha, good luck with that Baclava Oct 2014 #2

Bottom of the ocean get the red out Oct 2014 #3

The mystery is why they have found no wreckage, none. former9thward Oct 2014 #12

If it didn't all sink get the red out Oct 2014 #13

Yes, that's the point. former9thward Oct 2014 #17

Not if someone landed it on the water. FLPanhandle Oct 2014 #18

The Hudson River landing happened in the middle of the day. former9thward Oct 2014 #20

Thanks get the red out Oct 2014 #22

That is the point that I'm really confused about........ Logical Oct 2014 #25

Yes, to date the strangest disappearance I have heard about. former9thward Oct 2014 #27

Which is exactly why it may not have landed in the ocean Reter Oct 2014 #30

Right you are. former9thward Oct 2014 #34

I love your choice of the word "gnaw". Avalux Oct 2014 #19

Imagining RobinA Oct 2014 #4

yep, just imagining the Bahamas as mountaintops with edges that plunge miles deep Baclava Oct 2014 #8

Thank you for the update, I hope they find something. uppityperson Oct 2014 #5

I wonder if they will ever look at the possible northern route again? EX500rider Oct 2014 #6

I really do not understand the money and effort being spent on this. Planes do disappear. DebJ Oct 2014 #7

They most always try to recover downed planes.... Little Star Oct 2014 #9

So will they eventually stop? Or keep looking for eternity? n/t DebJ Oct 2014 #14

it hasn't even been a year JI7 Oct 2014 #15

They still need to know why Blue_Tires Oct 2014 #10

Finding it and knowing what happened can help tp prevent tragedies like this Raine Oct 2014 #16

That's why they have the NTSB crash investigations, you know Baclava Oct 2014 #23

Thanks! Call me crazy but I want to know what happened. Little Star Oct 2014 #11

You're welcome. I want to know too. It's Technology vs. The Ocean Baclava Oct 2014 #24

How do you know it's "The Ocean"? Reter Oct 2014 #29

I have ruled out time travel and UFO abductions for lack of evidence for the time being Baclava Oct 2014 #32

I have the same evidence as everyone else, none Reter Oct 2014 #35

That would be nice, but I doubt they will find out anything except the location of the wreck ohnoyoudidnt Oct 2014 #26

I doubt they'll get very far with that approach KamaAina Oct 2014 #21

It's time to think outside the box Reter Oct 2014 #28

Well, waiting for the thread that says cwydro Oct 2014 #31

I hope you're not laughing at my informative thread Baclava Oct 2014 #33