#MH370 Updates: From Lithium Batteries to Ocean floor
Did MH370 crash in the Andaman Sea and then drift thousands of kilometres to the southern Indian Ocean?Raja Dalelah: I’m convinced I saw aircraft near Andaman islands.A team of oceanographers from Australia has been calculating where wind and ocean currents may have carried debris from Flight 370. The model could be used to trace ocean roads back to the plane’s crash site.
AS Australian rescuers stepped up the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, frustration at two weeks of fruitless efforts boiled over in Beijing with police having to restrain angry relatives of the 239 missing passengers and crew.
The issue of lithium batteries came back in the news:
Lithium ion batteries, which are deemed “dangerous” cargo, have been responsible for 140 incidents on planes in the last 23 years, according to FAA.
Meanwhile, Sarah Bajc, the partner of American passenger Philip Wood, voiced concern that the sudden focus on a particular section of the Indian Ocean was happening at the expense of a land search along a northern route the plane may have taken over South and Central Asia.
”I believe, and I think many people believe, the passengers are being held for some other purpose. But so far that doesn’t seem to be listened to,” Bajc told CNN
”If there’s a chance it was taken by an abductor of some sort, then we should be putting at least some of our resources towards looking on land.’’
The mystery deepens with a Malaysian housewife claiming she saw what looked like a Malaysian Airline aircraft in the water near the Andaman seas:
Raja Dalelah: I’m convinced I saw aircraft near Andaman islands.
Article is in the link below:
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/03/21/Woman-reports-sighting-jet-Raja-Dalelah-Im-convinced-I-saw-aircraft-near-Andaman-islands/
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/03/21/missing-mh370-woman-reports-sighting-missing-jet.html
Under sea Floor
The cluster of suspected debris from Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has been sighted above a giant undersea chain of volcanoes whose complex terrain has barely been charted, says an Australian marine geologist.
Robin Beaman from James Cook University said so little of the southern Indian Ocean sea floor, including the search zone, had been mapped in detail that any attempt to retrieve wreckage would require extensive 3D mapping, likely by ships with deep ocean multibeam echo sounders.
But Australia no longer has the capacity to chart depths of 3000 metres, the average depth of the search area, because the only government vessel capable of conducting mapping of that kind, the RV Southern Surveyor, had been decommissioned in December.
The research vessel’s replacement was being built in Singapore and was about to undergo sea trials, Dr Beaman said.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/indian-ocean-sea-floor-under-suspected-mh370-wreckage-unmapped-and-unknown-20140325-35gis.html#ixzz2x7FuTKlF
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