Originally Posted by
fdgolf
Honestly, what are the
real hopes for finding these boxes??
Best of luck
As long as we are still deploying significant search means on the spot, willing to pay for it, there is a non null (strictly positive) probability to locate (then recover) these BB, hence hopes.
Jeff
PS) The backdrifting studies are also supposed to increase this probability. The phase IV will also take in account the backdrifted areas already searched without results (mostly north of LKP). Maybe the phase IV will search the poorly explored areas produced by the Mercator PSY2V3 model (page 130 of the report below), W-SW of LKP, near the region where the pinger signals have been supposedly detected/identified by the French Navy & Thales.
http://www.bea.aero/en/enquetes/flig...oup.report.pdf