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The acoustic experts, who do not wish to be identified, said the four crucial signals detected by a US pinger locator were almost certainly not from the missing Malaysian Airlines plane’s black boxes, but from another man-made source.
They insisted that the signals were in the wrong frequency and detected too far apart to be from the boxes.
“As soon as I saw the frequency and the distance between the pings I knew it couldn’t be the aircraft pinger,” one scientist told News Corp Australia.
That conclusion is supported by the lack of success from a detailed search of the area conducted by the US deep sea drone ‘Bluefin 21’.
originally posted by: ThinkYouSpeak
This situation is really strange..Black boxes don't just disappear do they?
originally posted by: NoRulesAllowed
originally posted by: ThinkYouSpeak
This situation is really strange..Black boxes don't just disappear do they?
Yes they do, and so do entire planes.
The explanation is as simple as that the signals of a BB to my knowledge only have a limited range.
Here is a good article:
aviation.stackexchange.com...
So..let the plane sink more than that range (and given the vastness of the ocean this is possible)...the signal would simple be undetectable..and neither would a plane, somewhere lodged between rocks/corals in, say, 5,6 7 or more kms of depth in the water. Go look at a map, look at the Indian ocean. The fact THAT WE DON'T EVEN HAVE A CLUE where it could have crashed also makes the search not exactly easy.
So..yes..."practically" a plane and a black box CAN disappear...it's like if I throw a tiny rock somewhere randomly into a lake and then ask someone to retrieve THIS exact rock. While the tiny rock of course is still there and didn't enter another dimension, *practically* it DID vanish.