There have been reports that there's another press conference early this afternoon, AEST, on further MH370 developments.
The news item said the Defence Minister was holding the conference. I think that was a typical media stuff-up, they don't even know the difference between the JACC leader and the Defence Minister.
The Ocean Shield has recorded two separate pings, on different frequencies, that appear to coincide with the signals from a CVR and FDR.
It's starting to appear that the transit of Cyclone Gillian on 22-23 March, which hit Christmas Island, then went through the region of the current search area, has seriously diminished the chances of finding floating MH370 wreckage.
In this region, the wreckage would not have been pushed towards the West Australian coast, it would have been circulating in a current eddy in the region or be pushed towards Christmas Island.
When HMAS Sydney was sunk around 130 NM SW of Carnarvon, Western Australia, in November 1941, a Carley float from the Sydney, containing the remnants of a corpse, was washed up on Christmas Island some 3 mths later.
Last edited by onetrack; 8th Apr 2014 at 02:34.
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