China ship detects possible 777 pulse

[W9JEF]

By Marian Smith and Eric Baculinao

A Chinese ship searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
has detected a "pulse" signal in the Indian Ocean, China's state
news agencies CCTV and Xinhua said Saturday.

China's Haixun 01 marine surveillance ship detected signals
with a frequency of 37.5 kHz per second [sic], CCTV said in a tweet (https://twitter.com/cctvnews).

"Not proven to be linked to #MH370 yet," the post said.

READ MORE:

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/report-china-ship-searching-jet-detects-pulse-n72606

[n6hcm]

I care when they find the plane.

[W9JEF]

Editor's Note: Since this story was published, an Australian ship heard a third "pulse" signal (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-search-to-soon-become-even-more-difficult/), and several more ships are rushing to the area to improve the search.

Read our ongoing coverage of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 search here (http://www.cbsnews.com/malaysia-airlines-flight-370/).


PERTH, Australia - The head of the multinational search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (http://www.cbsnews.com/malaysia-airlines-flight-370/) said Sunday that two electronic pulses reportedly picked up by a Chinese ship were an encouraging sign but stressed they are not yet verified.

Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston told reporters in Perth that two naval ships with high-technology equipment were being sent to the area where the signals were reported to try to confirm or rule out whether they were from the missing plane's flight recorders.

"This is an important and encouraging lead," Houston said of reported acoustic detections from the Haixun 01, but urged caution in drawing any conclusions before the signals were verified.

He said that the Australian vessel Ocean Shield also was investigating a separate acoustic detection.

http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2014/04/04/5f5943c7-e5e7-4284-8b25-1de2d25f51f6/thumbnail/380x240/e60852a8feea1bb77ca26737fdda8263/ctm-0404-williams-640x360.jpg (http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-underwater-search-begins-for-black-box)

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-search-to-soon-become-even-more-difficult/

[W9JEF]

Malaysia's transport minister called possible pings that might be linked to missing Flight MH370 (http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/ship-detects-possible-black-box-signals-official-n73346) the "most promising lead we have had" on Monday and said he was unable to rule out that some of its passengers remained alive.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/miracles-do-happen-malaysia-wont-rule-out-mh370-survivors-n73431

[n2ize]

My best guess is that it went down somewhere over the ocean and there are no survivors. Kind of like a modern day disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Less likely with today's technologies but not impossible. If it was a hijack or capture someone would have likely claimed responsibility by now. Unless those persons are under the ocean too.

[kb2vxa]

I wonder about those pings, the battery has had a long time to go flat. IF anyone could survive a high speed impact it's a miracle, a far fetched miracle a severely injured person could tread water this long even if there were no sharks. Anything edible became food long ago, believe me Mr. Hussein, you're not fooling anyone.

"I care when they find the plane." I think we all do, at least there will be closure when the investigation concludes.

[N2NH]

It's not New Years until the ball drops and the plane isn't found until someone sees it.

That Malaysia is holding out hope for survivors makes me wonder why they would.

[AC8KF WALT]

hidden in a hanger on Diego Garcia.

[koØm]

I heard 777 chirps here


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W98JeW-LmN8

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[W9JEF]

Search crews pursuing electronic pings that could be from the missing
Malaysian jetliner's black boxes have failed to relocate the sounds heard
deep in the Indian Ocean, the head of search operations said
during a press conference Tuesday.

Sound locating equipment has picked up no trace of the signals
since they were first heard late Saturday and early Sunday,
said Angus Houston, who is heading the search off Australia's coast.

During the press conference in Perth, Australia, minister of defense
David Johnston said crews would deploy the submersible vessel
when they get another ping transmission.

"This is the most positive lead we've had and as I've said,
we are pursuing it aggressively," Johnston said.

Warren Truss, Australia's acting prime minister said Tuesday in Perth
that searchers were frustrated Monday in trying to re-connect
with the underwater signals.

"Today is another critical day as we try and reconnect with the signals
that perhaps have been emanating from the black box flight recorder
of the MH370," Truss said.

"The connections two days ago were obviously a time of great hope
that there had been a significant breakthrough and it was disappointing
that we were unable to repeat that experience yesterday."

Truss said the crew on board the Australian ship Ocean Shield
will launch the underwater vehicle, the Bluefin 21 unmanned sub,
Tuesday. The craft is loaded with equipment that can create
a sonar map of the area to chart any debris on the sea floor.


READ MORE:

http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/08/searchers-race-to-relocate-possible-black-box-pings/7453221/

[WØTKX]

I heard 777 chirps here...

:dance: To an ex-Minneapolis boy like me, THAT was Cool. :dance:

http://youtu.be/oNCN1Qx_Myw


http://youtu.be/oNCN1Qx_Myw

[kb2vxa]

Pings! I hear PINGS!

[W9JEF]

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Why not equip all transoceanic flights with two "black boxes"
--one to remain on board, the other to eject upon impact and float,
with transmitter battery charge maintained by PV?

[N2NH]

Two weeks since thread started. Right now the word is they will stop the underwater search in less than a week.

It almost looks as if they're giving up. (http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-others/malaysian-airlines-mh370-current-underwater-search-for-plane-could-end-within-a-week/)

[kb2vxa]

"Why not equip all transoceanic flights with two "black boxes"
--one to remain on board, the other to eject upon impact and float,
with transmitter battery charge maintained by PV?"

Because it would float away.

[W9JEF]

"Why not equip all transoceanic flights with two "black boxes"
--one to remain on board, the other to eject upon impact and float,
with transmitter battery charge maintained by PV?"

Because it would float away.


But given our knowledge of ocean currents, would it not narrow the search area?

[N2NH]

It is entirely probable that this aircraft might not even be found in most of our lifetimes...


THE sobering reality is that finding the resting place of the sunken naval flagship HMAS Sydney, lost for 67 years, was an easier undertaking than locating the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.

Finding Sydney’s grave was relatively simple, once funding to conduct the search finally came through in 2007. The same does not apply to MH370, a search that has been heavily backed from the start.

Sydney lies on similar latitude, in roughly the same waters off Western Australia as the Boeing 777 is thought to have crashed. Though the Australian warship had no black box, it had something more valuable: eyewitnesses to its destruction.

Like finding a needle in a haystack under a mountain.

Search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 a mammoth task that could take years. (http://www.news.com.au/world/search-for-missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-a-mammoth-task-that-could-take-years/story-fndir2ev-1226898087944)

[kb2vxa]

The question now becomes when will they stop wasting megabucks and chalk it up to another of countless mysterious disappearances?

[NQ6U]

It took almost two years to find the Black Box fom Air France flight 447 despite the fact that the Brazilian navy recovered a major part of the wreckage within a few days of its disappearance.

[W9JEF]

Still wondering: Why not TWO "black boxes"--one to remain on board,
the other--with solar powered homing beacon--ejected on impact???


Recordings of conversations between the missing Malaysia Airlines jet's pilots
and air traffic controllers were released for the first time Thursday as authorities
urged an international aviation body to consider real-time tracking of commercial jets.

Not a single trace of debris from MH370 has been found in the search for the missing jet,
which disappeared two months ago.


http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/malaysia-report-mh370-urges-study-real-time-jet-tracking-n94471

[N2NH]

So, these recordings may or may not be the whole story. It would seem in light of all the weird stuff going on during this investigation, from the parceling out of bits of information to piecemeal facts being leaked out over weeks rather than hours, that editing is the last thing someone would want to do at this late date, but it is so.


Audio recordings of the final conversations between pilots of the missing Malaysian jet and teams of air traffic controllers on the ground were "edited" before they were made public, voice experts say. The tapes also appear to be recorded by at least two different audio sources, one of which may have been a digital recorder held up to a speaker, they said.

The analysts cautioned that their observations don't necessarily imply anything about the investigation into the missing flight.

The quality and brevity of the interactions between the cockpit and controllers made it impossible to glean any information about the pilots' state of mind before the plane disappeared, or even to determine whether both the pilot and co-pilot were speaking or if just one can be heard.

The audio recordings were published Thursday for the first time as part of a preliminary report by Malaysian authorities. In the report, Malaysia's Air Accident Investigation Bureau said a lack of real-time tracking devices caused "significant difficulty" in the hunt for MH 370, which disappeared March 8...

Analysts who listened to the recordings for NBC News did not know why they were edited, but discovered at least four clear breaks in the audio that indicated edits.

"It's very strange," said audio-video forensic expert and registered investigator Ed Primeau of Primeau Forensics, who has analyzed hundreds of audio recordings. He said the beginning and end of the recording are high-quality with a low noise floor, meaning ambient background noise is almost silent, unlike the middle.

Again:


The analysts cautioned that their observations don't necessarily imply anything about the investigation into the missing flight.

Except the one constant. The continual inconsistency of information the pubic is being given. Why? One could suspect that there is something to hide. If not, then why is this happening? It's not an accident. Someone did this and nobody has offered to explain it.

In any event, they are now saying "maybe" it's going to take a year to find this plane. Maybe.

Notice the first line of this story. Unlike the headline, there is no "may" there.


Audio recordings of the final conversations between pilots of the missing Malaysian jet and teams of air traffic controllers on the ground were "edited" before they were made public, voice experts say.

Missing Jet Recordings May Have Been 'Edited': Experts* (http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/missing-jet-recordings-may-have-been-edited-experts-n94941)

*emphasis mine.

[NQ6U]

I'm not saying it's aliens but...

It's bushtits!

[W9JEF]

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God used to be my copilot, but then we crashed in the Andes and I had to eat him.

[n2ize]

http://algo.inria.fr/broutin/pictures/random_geom_graph.jpg

[NA4BH]

http://algo.inria.fr/broutin/pictures/random_geom_graph.jpg

Ebola

[K7SGJ]

Ebola

The good news: No wonder my bar code reader wouldn't recognize it.

The bad news: My phone is slowly dying from the ebola virus.

[NA4BH]

Tried to warn you.

[K7SGJ]

No you didn't. You let me step into that like it was a pile of Mastiff shit in tall grass.

[VE7DCW]

http://algo.inria.fr/broutin/pictures/random_geom_graph.jpg


Jeeeeeeezus....... I thought this was a complicated QR code...... :mrgreen:

[K7SGJ]

Jeeeeeeezus....... I thought this was a complicated QR code...... :mrgreen:

Kinda looks like Canadian bacon under a microscope, which is probably almost as bad a ebola.

[KG4CGC]

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/doghump.gif

[kb2vxa]

OH GAWD! Now THAT'S detecting a pulse!

[N2NH]

There is no current news. The only things Teh Google turns up in the last 24 hours is blogs and message boards.

Even CNN seems to have moved on. Amazingly.