Poseidon a/c on scene too, apparently.

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The actual ditching or crash location would be hundreds of miles away from the debris location.

How will they confirm anything with a fly past? Isn't it likely they'll need people in the water in which case it'll be a long time before we hear anything.

Largest image assessed is "24 metres".

Two satellites have been re tasked to take High Res photos.

They are throwing one hell of a lot of aircraft to this as well as a warship.

One aircraft over location, other aircraft arriving in a staggered timeline from 4.00pm, then about 6.00pm and 8.00pm.

Civvy ship being diverted.


Largest object is 24 metres. 2nd one smaller than that.
Plus other objects in water in the vicinity.

Largest object stated to be 24 metres in size.

Weather in area poor for aerial search.

Largest object assessed at 24m in size per AMSA briefing. The AP-3C Orions have sonar buoys that can be dropped to locate black boxes.

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I got the idea from an earlier Ozmate news conference that the sonobuoys on the AP-3C, like the AF 447 submarine, couldn't pick up the ultrasound from the boxes.

Water there is several thousand meters deep and after drifting, wreckage on the surface is likely a long way from recorders. What's the range of those sonar detectors ?

AMSA doing their level best to locate survivors?
 

AMSA doing their level best to locate survivors?

The poor weather is going to be a bugger. The staggered arrival of aircraft plus the C-130 that is going to drop buoys mean any gap in the weather will help.

The AMSA guy and Air Commodore is good at not answering questions if he doesn't know and saying they will get back to them when he has info :ok:

Playing a VERY straight bat with the media !

24 metres x ??. More info needed AMSA.

Telling near-over-reach by Air Commodore in response to question about credibility of sighting. Almost a statement that they wouldn't be allocating all those resources without very good reason- quickly gulped with a glance to the AMSA chief? Did anyone else notice? Did that mean the object is large enough that there is a tiny chance of survivors clinging to it?

Four hours flying time (for Orion aircraft) from RAAF Base Pearce (Western Australia) to the site. They can spend about two hours in the area before returning.

I don't know AMSA's John Young's background, but after all the bog ignorant instant aviation expert news anchors we've endured for the last two weeks, what a breath of fresh air to hear someone speak to the media as he is in the press conference.

HMAS Success also being diverted to the refined search area but could be days away.

Yes, he almost over reached.

"24 metres x ??. More info needed AMSA. "

Capt K.

He is waiting for more confirmation and as he just said, he doesn't want to speculate until they have seen them.

The 24 metres is an assessment on the low res Satellite image, that is why they are trying to locate it, get it etc.

High res image and visual from Orions etc will be needed to identify.

They just said images will be released to the media as soon as it is available.


Andu
"I don't know AMSA's John Young's background, but after all the bog ignorant instant aviation expert news anchors we've endured for the last two weeks, what a breath of fresh air to hear someone speak to the media as he is in the press conference."

Agree 100% :ok:


What a breath of fresh air, play the media with a straight bat.

Re: "Telling near-over-reach by Air Commodore in response to question about credibility of sighting. Almost a statement that they wouldn't be allocating all those resources without very good reason- quickly gulped with a glance to the AMSA chief? Did anyone else notice? Did that mean the object is large enough that there is a tiny chance of survivors clinging to it?"

Briefing now over. No new briefing yet scheduled. Mr. Young did specifically say in response to a question about survivor family hopes: "our priority will be to look for survivors first"

-he also indicated other Australian searching would be redirected to this sighting.