Originally Posted by
bono
There is nothing that can be tied to MH370 that has been spotted visually by any ship. South Indian ocean has plenty of debris otherwise (Google Indian Ocean Garbage Patch).
The two arguments go against each other:
1. Big fully loaded aircraft "crashes" and breaks apart
2. Practically no debris located
One of them CANNOT be right if Inmarsat data is correct.
You really have no sense of scale - in a post way back at the beginning of the thread the problem was described as looking for a green grain of sugar in Central Park.
Now some debris has been sighted and marker buoys dropped - and even then ships cannot get to that area easily to check out what has been found.
If someone had wanted to find somewhere to 'lose' a widebody aircraft so it could not be found they would have chosen the South Indian Ocean in the 'roaring forties'.
Had it not been for the maintenance of low level SATCOM connectivity, and, the capability of communications scientists to calculate from simple handshakes where an aircraft could be - the location of the aircraft would be completely unknown and the assumption would have been a crash close to Malaysia.