Originally Posted By: Mystic
It has always bothered me that they never found any floating wreckage from this airliner. I think there should have been some. But I figured that the satellite company probably knew what it was doing in determining that this airliner flew south, and when the signals were detected I thought for sure the airliner was at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. But they have now searched a considerable amount of that ocean floor bottom with no results. Now sure, it can take a long time to search the ocean bottom and it is difficult and all of that. But they searched first in the most likely areas where the signals were detected.
It makes a person wonder about a lot of things. Maybe the airliner is in very deep water (20,000 feet or so) where that little submarine can't go. I think there was something like 400 or 500 square miles they were going to search in the area based on the signals where the airliner probably should be, and if they don't find the wreckage of this airliner pretty soon I am going to start questioning a lot of things.
Now the people who expect people to be robotic and only operate from known facts would probably be useless in military intelligence. Wild speculation also does not get a person anywhere. But a person has to be willing to consider a few things. What if the satellite company is wrong? And for all we know some country involved in the search that may have something to hide could have tossed black boxes into the ocean so that signals would be detected. I think these things are unlikely but if the wreckage is not found pretty soon I will be more willing to entertain a few wild possibilities.
It is true that it can take a very long time to find wreckage at such ocean depths. No question about that. And the wreckage could maybe lie at very great depth or be hidden in some underwater canyon or whatever. Still, they have already searched something like about one tenth of the most likely area based on the signals. And they searched the most likely areas first. Lots of things can happen to underwater signals but those signals can travel only so far. I think it is unlikely that the wreckage is actually one thousand miles away from where they detected the signals. At one point they detected signals for about two hours straight.
Maybe the wreckage will be found soon, or at least in the next few months. But if no wreckage is found after a lot of time has gone back I am willing to consider more possibilities.
But just because the aircraft or wreckage has not been found, that doesn't mean at all that something else has occurred. It's a huge area....insanely deep. Even the experts in searching have no definitive location of exactly where the aircraft went down. We may never find it.
On the other side of things, it makes no sense for anybody to steal an airliner full of people....keep the event hidden for all these weeks....and not even announce nor use the 'captured' aircraft and crew as some sort of extortion or political tool. There has been ZERO evidence of that. Besides....even rather poor nations have old airliners available to buy or steal. Not hard for any terrorist group to get a hold of one. I'm not saying that you are suggesting these things by saying that other possibilities need to be considered, but certainly many on here have.
I think that even though nothing has been found in the ocean....it's there.
It has always bothered me that they never found any floating wreckage from this airliner. I think there should have been some. But I figured that the satellite company probably knew what it was doing in determining that this airliner flew south, and when the signals were detected I thought for sure the airliner was at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. But they have now searched a considerable amount of that ocean floor bottom with no results. Now sure, it can take a long time to search the ocean bottom and it is difficult and all of that. But they searched first in the most likely areas where the signals were detected.
It makes a person wonder about a lot of things. Maybe the airliner is in very deep water (20,000 feet or so) where that little submarine can't go. I think there was something like 400 or 500 square miles they were going to search in the area based on the signals where the airliner probably should be, and if they don't find the wreckage of this airliner pretty soon I am going to start questioning a lot of things.
Now the people who expect people to be robotic and only operate from known facts would probably be useless in military intelligence. Wild speculation also does not get a person anywhere. But a person has to be willing to consider a few things. What if the satellite company is wrong? And for all we know some country involved in the search that may have something to hide could have tossed black boxes into the ocean so that signals would be detected. I think these things are unlikely but if the wreckage is not found pretty soon I will be more willing to entertain a few wild possibilities.
It is true that it can take a very long time to find wreckage at such ocean depths. No question about that. And the wreckage could maybe lie at very great depth or be hidden in some underwater canyon or whatever. Still, they have already searched something like about one tenth of the most likely area based on the signals. And they searched the most likely areas first. Lots of things can happen to underwater signals but those signals can travel only so far. I think it is unlikely that the wreckage is actually one thousand miles away from where they detected the signals. At one point they detected signals for about two hours straight.
Maybe the wreckage will be found soon, or at least in the next few months. But if no wreckage is found after a lot of time has gone back I am willing to consider more possibilities.
But just because the aircraft or wreckage has not been found, that doesn't mean at all that something else has occurred. It's a huge area....insanely deep. Even the experts in searching have no definitive location of exactly where the aircraft went down. We may never find it.
On the other side of things, it makes no sense for anybody to steal an airliner full of people....keep the event hidden for all these weeks....and not even announce nor use the 'captured' aircraft and crew as some sort of extortion or political tool. There has been ZERO evidence of that. Besides....even rather poor nations have old airliners available to buy or steal. Not hard for any terrorist group to get a hold of one. I'm not saying that you are suggesting these things by saying that other possibilities need to be considered, but certainly many on here have.
I think that even though nothing has been found in the ocean....it's there.
