What's your Flight 370 conspiracy theory?

[phebee]

I agree Clover. That's not proof in my book. Hopefully they find proof sometime soon.

[AnyDream]

Breaking news: new sat images of 122 objects floating in search area, ranging in size from 1 to 23 meters.

FWIW, I don't think anyone is saying "we're done now." There is a strong recognition in Aust & internationally that the families have been through hell due to the way the Malaysian authorities handled the situation. There's a real sense of compassion in wanting to get the answers these families need and urgency to get them before the evidence is lost.

[Trillian]

I think they have finally found it The worst thing is that where they have sighted the possible wreckage could still be 1000's of km's from where it actually went down because it's been out there for nearly 3 weeks now and the ocean currents would have taken it away from the crash site.

[beansbeans!]

Finally a conspiracy theory That could be true, and all thanks to Sarah Palin... The plane went straight to heaven and that's why little evidence has been found.

[Trillian]

OMG did she truly say that? What a fool

[Rouge]

Lol it was a hoax. But still hilarious

[AnyDream]

Apparently they are spotting loads of stuff in the new search zone. I just hope it's not loads of random garbage floating around out there. Humans are a bunch of filthy pigs (don't get me started on the topic of how much plastic is floating around in the ocean) .

[Trillian]

I think that's why they are being so cautious until they can actually get there and retrieve it. Until then it's just as likely it's part of the great ocean rubbish dump

[AnyDream]

From the ABC news website:

"The Australian Transport Safety Bureau continues to refine the area where the aircraft entered the water based on continuing ground-breaking and multi-disciplinary technical analysis of satellite communication and aircraft performance, passed from the international air crash investigative team comprising analysts from Malaysia, the United States, the UK, China and Australia."

This gives me hope that the data and all the assumptions that have flowed from there are being scrutinised and analysed by a team of many experts, rather than the wild speculation that went on during the early days of the investigation. (Which apparently is still going on. It must have been the mangosteens, dammit!!!)

[beansbeans!]

I am starting to wonder how much this search is costing our country each day and who plans on paying the bill for this, especially when our head of state keeps saying we won't stop until it's found. I understand and have empathy, sympathy for the families of the people on board, I would love answers, but with still little to go off....

[phebee]

What do you think of this theory? http://www.westernjournalism.com/sho...-per-gps-data/

[AnyDream]

Rubbish.
1. This "story" surfaced on 4chan
2. Location metadata can be edited just like any other metadata
3. If Philip Wood was an IBM engineer, I'm pretty sure he would be clever enough to send his distress call via multiple platforms. Plus, you can reasonably assume that a number of his close associates would also be highly savvy with social media. But this story has really only been picked up by the conspiracy types.
4. There are a lot of good people spending a long time & many, many millions of dollars looking for wreckage. Given the economic rationalism that prevails amongst western governments, the parties concerned would have manufactured some pretty tidy evidence of a crash to cover their tracks long before now.
5. There are a load of associated narratives that are being used to support the theory that are very obviously factually incorrect. Statements like Diego Garcia has not been mentioned by the mainstream media (not true, heard it discussed in the first weeks), wild theories about who exactly has control of the base, astonishing statements about Australian radar capabilities as a suggestion of complicity (37,000 km ... WTF? That's nearly the entire circumference of the globe), etc. That sort of factual inaccuracy doesn't do the conspiracists any favors.

[Teeki]

I'm just gonna "like" MDs post because I agree with everything lol.

[Rouge]

I wish I could share this with a friend of mine MD. Brilliant. And I agree too.

[Mumma T]

What I wonder is why we are so invested in going to such lengths, its pretty clear that they are either elsewhere or deceased and in a couple more days the black box will be useless too. I think there has to be a reason they havent scaled back the search yet and am pretty sure some of the planes and ships are searching other theories

[AnyDream]

Possible PING found!!

Hilariously (or not) it appears the Chinese haven't been playing nicely & have been conducting an entire search process outside the agreed search zone (quite possibly based on sat/radar/surveillance data that they haven't shared OR was shared with Mslaysia but discounted). Things that make you go Hmmmmm....

Mumma, they need to find the plane for a few reasons. 1. They need conclusive evidence that the plane did actually crash to discount the possibility that it is being held by terrorists. 2. If they can find the flight data recorder they may be able to piece together an understanding of what went wrong. 3. If there is a flaw in the plane's components, every plane on the planet needs to be checked. 4. Closure for the families. 5. There's a lot of money riding on what happened - in terms of compensation, paying for search efforts - finding out what happened will determine who has to pay. 6. Finding the data recorder while there is still a location beacon active could save potentially years of searching.

[AnyDream]

Ok, I retract my statement about the Chinese searching outside the zone. Don't believe everything you read on the internet!!
Very exciting news - they are finding pings now for much longer periods of time. Even if they don't find the recorders before the batteries run out, they will have a much smaller area to focus on. Which is pretty impressive when you consider the utter ??????? that they started with!

[Jaycee]

Sounded very hopeful on the news this morning... really hope they find the flight recorder so they can try to piece together what's gone wrong.

You're right, it'll be closure mostly for the families, but also for the rest of the world who have been following and wondering for so long now.