Originally Posted by
gmorton
Whilst 'every piece of rubbish' collected and examined from now on the beaches of IO islands may seem a laborious and seemingly time-wasting process it remains a more economic process than combing thousands of km's of seabed of IO- people want instant gratification however if in 6 months of combing through rubbish investigators find at least one more substantial piece of the plane or luggage then the end justifies the means.
Even if they were to recover a million pieces of trash and find maybe a dozen pieces originating from MH370, it's very unlikely that those random pieces would reveal anything except that MH370 crashed, in a location not inconsistent with the current search areas. The only real hope of solving this mystery is to locate the aircraft wreckage, tedious, time-consuming and expensive as that process is proving.