North Indian Ocean posts
NPR For two years, vessels have been scouring the southern Indian Ocean for signs of the missing jetliner. A new report suggests they might be looking in the wrong place.
102 months ago
Reuters Investigators searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have conceded for the first time they were probably looking in the wrong place, and have recommended extending the search to an area further north in the Indian Ocean: http://reut.rs/2hV2WMn
102 months ago
Daily Mail No one was controlling MH370 when it plunged into the ocean, a new report has suggested.
103 months ago
The Wall Street Journal The comment marks the first confirmation by Malaysia that the pilot’s flight simulator included a course over the southern Indian Ocean, where Flight 370 is believed to have flown after inexplicable turns that took it thousands of kilometers off co
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106 months ago
AP Stylebook AP Style tip: From the largest to the smallest: Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Antarctic Ocean, Arctic Ocean. Lowercase ocean standing alone or in plural uses: the ocean, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
114 months ago
Daily Mail EXCLUSIVE: Is this missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370?
118 months ago
National Geographic "Floating debris from any source travels far and can persist for years," says Marcus Eriksen, an ocean scientist who has sailed the fast-moving, circular currents known as the Indian Ocean gyre. Learn the science behind why—and how—pieces of the
Read more ... missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 could still be drifting.
119 months ago
Reuters Malaysia is "almost certain" that plane debris found on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean is from a Boeing 777 -- but is it from missing Flight MH370? Read more: http://reut.rs/1SjRvgQ
119 months ago
NPR A source familiar with the investigation tells NPR a piece of wing found on an island in the Indian Ocean appears to be from a large passenger plane.
119 months ago

Mrthan Zaw Indian Ocean currents show #debris is plausibly from #MH370 by ANDREW FREEDMAN July 30 2015 There is solid science behind the suspicion that the debris discovered on the shores of Reunion Island on Wednesday could plausibly be from the missing Malays
Read more ... ia Airlines Flight 370 that disappeared in March with 239 people aboard.
First, there is the satellite tracking data, which was based on transmissions between the aircraft's automated systems and satellite networks. That data suggested the plane flew far to the southwest of Australia, in the southern Indian Ocean, which is where the Australian government continues its painstaking search of the seafloor to this day.
While the prevailing currents in the southern Indian Ocean during March differ significantly from those in place today, simply because of the change of seasons and other factors (the weather doesn't stay the same for that long, after all), the general flow of water in the upper ocean would most likely have taken debris that was deposited in the southern Indian Ocean in a counterclockwise direction.
http://mashable.com/2015/07/29/indian-ocean-currents-mh370-debris/
119 months ago
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