With the search continuing for missing Malaysia Airlines’ flight MH370, locating the plane’s black boxes are the focus for investigators. To that end, a Towed Pinger Locator and a Bluefin-21 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle have arrived in Perth to assist with the location and recovery of the black boxes. This equipment will be fitted to the Australian naval ship, the Ocean Shield, as she covers the current search area. You may be interested to know that E&T has gathered the series of flight MH370 infographics on to one web page, which documents the mystery as it has unfolded. Future infographics about … Continue reading Malaysia Airlines flight #MH370 – black box pinger locator begins its search – an annotated infographic

With the focus of the flight MH370 search mission now centred around the floating debris in the southern Indian Ocean, a consensus of opinion about the events leading up to the plane’s mysterious disappaerance is coalescing around known facts. The plane took off. Its transponder was disabled. Military radars show the aircraft turning sharply to the west, then north. Satellite data indicates the plane was still flying seven hours after losing contact with air traffic control. No response was received at the next scheduled contact time. The big question begged by all these facts is: why? We are still waiting … Continue reading Malaysia Airlines flight #MH370 – what we know so far – an annotated infographic

Tecnological conjecture, floating debris, rumour, conspiracy theory – until the mysterious whereabouts of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are determined, all bets are off and all opinion is valid. The latest development in the search and rescue mission is the US Navy deploying a “towed pinger locator”, shipped to Australia to begin trawling the ocean where the floating debris was spotted last week. This state-of-the-art pinger locator device is being used as a black box finder, capable of picking up a signal from a submerged black box pinger down to a depth of 6,000 metres. You may be interested to know … Continue reading Malaysia Airlines flight #MH370 – US Navy pinger hunts for black boxes – an annotated infographic

The first credible lead has surfaced in solving the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Australian investigators spotted what could possibly be plane debris floating in the southern Indian Ocean, 2,500km south-west of Perth. An international task force of aircraft and ships has been sent to the area to determine if the objects spotted by satellite are in fact debris from flight MH370. The satellites spotted two objects on the ocean surface, one of which is approximately 24 metres long. Large pieces of debris are often found floating in the world’s oceans. However, this discovery is being considered the … Continue reading Malaysia Airlines flight #MH370 – debris discovered at sea – an annotated infographic

Almost unbelievably, the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 now extends to covering one-tenth of the planet’s surface. Taking in two vast air corridors, crossing Thailand, Laos and Kazakhstan to the north and from Indonesia way out in to the Indian Ocean to the south, 26 countries are now involved in the search. Australia leads the search in the southern areas. Given that the plane could possibly have disappeared anywhere along either of the red lines indicated in the infographic below, we can appreciate the scale of the task in locating one small plane across such a vast expanse … Continue reading Malaysia airlines flight #MH370 – one-tenth of the planet now being searched – an annotated infographic