MH370 - New Development

[APenNameAndThatA]

The face of a genius

[jackc]

WHY the selfie 🙂 

[onetrack]

A genius in his own mind, perhaps. The thing that gets me is his absolute preciseness of the aircrafts location, based on some exceptionally weak signals. Weak signals can be from a multitude of sources.

If he's confidently predicting he can find the aircraft at that pretty precise location - and it's in an area previously searched by the Fugro crews - then surely there must be logs of the seabed and other records from the Fugro search information, which can be gone back over, to see if they really did miss that pile of wreckage.

[kgwilson]

It is an interesting development but I won't hold my breath.

[APenNameAndThatA]

On 1/12/21 at 8:50 PM, jackc said:

WHY the selfie 🙂 

Ouch! 

[jackc]

34 minutes ago, APenNameAndThatA said:

Ouch! 

Not you surely 🙂

[onetrack]

In the latest round of information gradually seeping out about the MH370 search, it has been revealed that the Ocean Infinity, carying out further searching under its latest contract with the Malaysian Govt, has carried out two more searches, over 28 days, ending Jan 23, 2026 - and has still found nothing.

 

Ocean Infinity's latest search contract started in March 2025 and ends in June 2026. It seems unlikely that Ocean Infinity will carry out further searches in the chosen area, before its contract ends.

 

The families of the lost pax have joined up in a group called Voice370 and are pleading with the Malaysian Govt to extend the search limit time - and to extend the search contract to other interested parties. It's currently unknown as to whether the Malaysian Govt will agree to this. There must be a limit on the amount of money and effort expended in this constantly fruitless search.

 

Families of flight MH370 victims push for wider search

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Malaysia is being urged to extend the search for a flight carrying 227 passengers that disappeared en route from ‌Kuala Lumpur to Beijing 12 years ago.

 

[facthunter]

It's a big and sometimes deep, Ocean. There has to be a limit on what amount of effort is expended. Nev

[BurnieM]

It is almost certainly there somewhere but it is a very big and very deep area. 

 

While I understand the strong emotion pushing for the search to continue there seems very little logical point in spending more millions of dollars for what, at best, will be partial body recovery.

 

Edited 18 hours ago by BurnieM

[rgmwa]

Finding it might answer the question of what happened to it, but not why it happened.

 

[onetrack]

I seem to recall Australia and Malaysia spent around $200M on the initial search, with the Australian contribution around $70M, and the Malaysian Govt covering the remainder.

 

The additional searches initiated by the Malaysian Govt are on a no-find-no-fee basis - but if the Ocean Infinity finds the wreckage, they get $70M.

 

At this point, Ocean Infinity must have outlaid a lot of search expenditure for zero return, and it appears their search result confidence was misplaced.

 

I sometimes wonder if the aircraft has sunk into deep mud on the ocean floor, or is in a deep trench. The sea floor in that remote part of the Indian Ocean is almost unknown, and largely unmapped.

 

The recent MH370 searches been carried out in the Southern section of the Wharton Basin - but that area, and further S towards Broken Ridge, comprise numbers of sea mounts (underwater mountains), near vertical cliff faces of enormous height (depth), deep trenches, and deep sediments in places.

 

The water depths of this region can reach staggering levels - around 5000 to 7000 metres. Recent deep-water exploration in the region has even uncovered unknown fish species, such are the mysteries of its little-known depths.

 

Expedition - Abyssal and Hadal Indian Ocean

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