Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Sun Aug 10, 2014 8:30 am  

Another one goes down. An Iranian passenger plane with 48 on board crashes shortly after take off from Tehran.

Not a good year so far. Those statisticians who were suggesting the imminent possibility of a zero deaths year look a bit daft now.

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Mon Aug 11, 2014 11:59 am  

are they still searching for the malaysian plane then went down off the coast of Australia? not heard anything for a while.

and what about the black box recovered from the Ukraine crash... did that give anything , guess they know but not giving it out yet

Re: Malaysia Airlines place vanishes. : Mon Sep 29, 2014 11:38 am  

They are indeed searching and are now well on with the laborious mapping process of the area of sea bed of greatest interest. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-29378953 This sort of thing: The resolution is far too coarse to pick up something as small as an aircraft, but the mapping wasn't done for that reason, it was to plot courses to drag the detection equipment, without crashing into obstructions etc. Apparently, before this, we had better maps of Mars than of this area of sea bed, and the mountains on it are said to make the Himalayas "look like foothills" so the scale of the challenge is literally and mind-bogglingly enormous.

They are indeed searching and are now well on with the laborious mapping process of the area of sea bed of greatest interest. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-29378953 This sort of thing: The resolution is far too coarse to pick up something as small as an aircraft, but the mapping wasn't done for that reason, it was to plot courses to drag the detection equipment, without crashing into obstructions etc. Apparently, before this, we had better maps of Mars than of this area of sea bed, and the mountains on it are said to make the Himalayas "look like foothills" so the scale of the challenge is literally and mind-bogglingly enormous.