"Oh, the ocean is a big place, it will be hard finding it"
We have signals/radar these days - it's 2014. We know where its signal got lost (the exact location). Oh, they actually saw a 'sign' of it (the oil slicks).
"Debris wouldn't show at all"
Debris would show. It isn't possible for a big plane to show no signs of its wreckage in the ocean. I mean, the plane was huge. You could say a good bomb might completely annihilate the plane, but a crash?
"It's in the middle of the ocean"
Okay, you could say that if the plane crashed in the Indian or Pacific ocean. But the plane went missing just right south of of Thailand. Wouldn't they find it by now?
If anything, the plane 'bled' (oil slicks) on the ocean, lost its signal, went on for a bit, and crashed in a land nearby (maybe the uninhibited areas in Southern Asia - like the forests). Or, in a completely different scenario, it was taken by the terrorists to their 'home base' somewhere, with the passengers being hostages. Who knows...
It depends on how the plane went into the water, and how it broke up, to determine how much debris would stay afloat. ocean conditions would determine how long the debris stayed afloat. And what is a huge plane on the tarmac, with you standing beside it, becomes ridiculously small in a large open area like the sea. The higher you fly, the harder it is to see critical details on the ocean surface. The lower you fly, the less area you can look at or "eyeball". So it's not totally shocking the plane is taking so long to find.
I heard on the BBC news earlier they could have travelled 100 miles after the first signs of a problem,so its a huge search area. And of course it may have sunk quickly. Some of them oceans are 5 miles deep.
It's a great, big world, 3/4 of which is covered with water. One little plane is going to be hard to find. Imagine how difficult it is to find a hiker lost in the woods and multiply that degree of difficulty by a gazillion.
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Some of the comments here are baffling...
"Oh, the ocean is a big place, it will be hard finding it"
We have signals/radar these days - it's 2014. We know where its signal got lost (the exact location). Oh, they actually saw a 'sign' of it (the oil slicks).
"Debris wouldn't show at all"
Debris would show. It isn't possible for a big plane to show no signs of its wreckage in the ocean. I mean, the plane was huge. You could say a good bomb might completely annihilate the plane, but a crash?
"It's in the middle of the ocean"
Okay, you could say that if the plane crashed in the Indian or Pacific ocean. But the plane went missing just right south of of Thailand. Wouldn't they find it by now?
If anything, the plane 'bled' (oil slicks) on the ocean, lost its signal, went on for a bit, and crashed in a land nearby (maybe the uninhibited areas in Southern Asia - like the forests). Or, in a completely different scenario, it was taken by the terrorists to their 'home base' somewhere, with the passengers being hostages. Who knows...
It depends on how the plane went into the water, and how it broke up, to determine how much debris would stay afloat. ocean conditions would determine how long the debris stayed afloat. And what is a huge plane on the tarmac, with you standing beside it, becomes ridiculously small in a large open area like the sea. The higher you fly, the harder it is to see critical details on the ocean surface. The lower you fly, the less area you can look at or "eyeball". So it's not totally shocking the plane is taking so long to find.
I heard on the BBC news earlier they could have travelled 100 miles after the first signs of a problem,so its a huge search area. And of course it may have sunk quickly. Some of them oceans are 5 miles deep.
Fuel and oil float on water.
The airplane, and most of the stuff inside the airplane, does not.
If the plane crashed, its pieces very well could have sunk by the time the search party found the oil slicks.
Hopefully the signaling device on the plane's black box is functioning and can lead searchers to the rest of the plane.
It's a great, big world, 3/4 of which is covered with water. One little plane is going to be hard to find. Imagine how difficult it is to find a hiker lost in the woods and multiply that degree of difficulty by a gazillion.
Debris is widely scattered and under water.
It is a very large area to search over, maybe you think you could find something in thousands of square kilometres of deep ocean?
Maybe it did not crash but got hijacked into flying elsewhere. Arent there any satellites in that area at all?
Oceans are even bigger.