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Pretty convenient place for someone to drop a fake device to throw us off the trail... (Feeling like being paranoid just for fun this morning)
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They can't even get reliable mobile phone signals to West Seattle, so we shouldn't be surprised by the near impossibility of finding black box signals in an ocean area that vast.
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@1 It's right next to Osama's body.
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Well, I for once certainly hope they don't try that with Mount Rainier. That would be awfully messy.
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Good one.
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Yes, it took 73 years to find the Titanic. But the Titanic wasn't pinging, and for most of that time no one was even looking for it.
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Even if they can go down that far, they'll probably never know what happened because they wont be able to salvage everything. Go watch PBS Flight of 111 (1998), they were able to salvage 99% of the wreckage by weight, had it all laid out in a hanger and while the black box told them of a fire, it didn't tell them how that fire started until they examined all the wreckage.

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The real kicker is going to be when they get their hands on the cockpit voice recorder, which only records the final 30-45 minutes or so, and therefore will probably be dead silent except maybe for a few alarms,

The solving of the mystery of MH370 will have been an amazing thing: take a jetliner, in the dead of night, and hide it in the deepest depths of the remotest patch of ocean with barely a trace, other than a half dozen vague whispers to a satellite somewhere...
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Send James Cameron! He'll do anything!
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What @9 said!
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Eli - you'll be happy to know that in this video - http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/… - CNN now includes Mount Rainier.

I am getting sick of all the analogies the media are using to help us pinheads understand just...how...hard...the...search...is. It's like finding a suitcase...from a mountaintop...in the dark! It's like finding a desktop computer...in Los Angeles! It's like locating a tick...on the underside of your balls...from a step ladder...with sidesweep sonar!

They have sonar. They have the pings. This is nothing like the Titanic, which predated the technology they're using. It's also not like Air France 447, where they never detected any pings. The search is hard, but exaggerating its difficulty is insulting to the skilled engineers out there conducting what has turned out to be a very effective search. Who out there thought after one week that they'd have this strong of a bead on where to search after just a month? They're already light years ahead of the flight 447 search.

I believe they're going to find the black boxes within months at the most, and I'm still optimistic that the recorders will exonerate the pilots. It seems like an awfully long way to go to commit suicide.
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It has to have been a severe mechanical or structural failure. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility (to our knowledge) and they will find the wreckage and CNN can finally get back to regular programming.
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Nice reality-check. Everyone on that plane was already dead by the time the first news started filtering out to global media. Something went very very wrong, the pilot turned to the direction of the nearest emergency landing airport, then nothing. If the plane lost pressure and the pilots couldn't get it down to under like 10,000 feet, they all soon died from lack of oxygen, and the plane flew on until it ran out of fuel.

Please wait...

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