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| SeanB:
--- Quote from: mojo-chan on July 30, 2015, 12:37:46 pm ---How deep is it there, and what is the terrain like on the bottom? Since the black box will have long since stopped pinging it could be difficult to locate. --- End quote --- Since the sea floor there ranges from 2-6km deep, and is pretty rough and rugged ( think the Himalayas writ large, and covered with a snow cover of sediment as well), you would really have to be lucky. Seeing as they found a wreck that was unknown, right in a well surveyed nature preserve off the USA, and they had been doing research only 200m away from it for a few years totally unknowing of it till happenchance with a missing anchor point led them right over it. |
| pickle9000:
No matter what, no aliens, not hidden in the desert and so on, I hated that crap. I would think that even finding one bit is a great relief to the families, better to know than not. I wonder if there are search crews out looking for stuff on the surface? |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 30, 2015, 01:50:06 pm --- --- Quote from: MikeW on July 30, 2015, 12:46:13 pm --- --- Quote from: mojo-chan on July 30, 2015, 12:37:46 pm --- it could be difficult to locate. --- End quote --- Quite the understatement. It's still a couple million square miles or so of ocean to search. --- End quote --- The only way they'll find the black boxes is if they find huge parts of the fuselage on the ocean floor. If the whole thing was scattered to kingdom come then they have buckleys chance. --- End quote --- Even an intact 777 fuselag on the ocean floor looks really really really tiny. Its a damned big floor. |
| ccs46:
There are barnacles on that piece, they can look how much cement those things have put down and see how long its been,where it's been, and many other things. The way that things looks, it was sheared off. That plane is the only 777 to have gone down over that ocean. It's a damn fine plane. |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: ccs46 on July 31, 2015, 05:49:15 am ---That plane is the only 777 to have gone down over that ocean. It's a damn fine plane. --- End quote --- A fine plane might not have picked up the nickname cripple seven. |
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