In the incident, the tip of the wing of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 broke off.
That may not be relevant to the current crash, but it is an interesting history, none the less. Perhaps the damage wasn't limited to the wingtip?
The pictures:
Further, it is stated that the sea where the plane supposedly went down is not deep, perhaps 170 feet, so the black box should be relatively easy to find.
There is also some talk that if the plane breaks up at altitude, which here is at 30k feet, the debris is harder to find since it is spread out over so many more square miles. The lack, so far, of any obvious debris field beyond the oil slicks, seems to support this theory.
Better info than the news channels are giving us!
ReplyDeleteHere is a #MH370 situation update from Flightradar24 because of the many questions we get.
The ADS-B transponder of an aircraft is transmitting data twice per second. FR24 saves data every 10-60 second depending on altitude. On cruising altitude data is normally saved once per 60 seconds. By analyzing all our databases and logs we have managed to recover about 2 signals per minute for the last 10 minutes.
The last location tracked by Flightradar24 is
Time UTC: 17:21:03
Lat: 6.97
Lon: 103.63
Alt: 35000
Speed: 471 knots
Heading: 40
Between 17:19 and 17:20 the aircraft was changing heading from 25 to 40 degrees, which is probably completely according to flight plan as MH370 on both 4 March and 8 March did the same at the same position. Last 2 signals are both showing that the aircraft is heading in direction 40 degrees.
Today there are reports in media that MH370 may have turned around. FR24 have not tracked this. This could have happened if the aircraft suddenly lost altitude as FR24 coverage in that area is limited to about 30000 feet.
FR24 have not tracked any emergency squawk alerts for flight MH370 before we lost coverage of the aircraft. Playback for flight MH370 is available on
http://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/mh370#2d81a27
If you have questions about how Flightradar24 works, please read
http://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works
Some have also commented that the plane breaking into large pieces at altitude could cause a reading consistent with a seeming turn - as in a piece large enough to give a radar signature arching around and even upward, before going down. Apparently that has happened before in in flight breakups, believe it or not.
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