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A Chinese ship equipped with advanced sonar equipment will soon join the search for the Malaysian airliner believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean almost two years ago, an official said on Friday.
The Dong Hai Jiu 101 will leave Singapore on Sunday to join the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 over a 120,000-square- kilometer (46,000-square-mile) expanse of deep seabed by late February, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said.
The ship brings the state-of-the-art Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS), which some experts say is more accurate than standard 75 kHz side-scan sonar devises that have been used to scan most of the area searched so far.
With standard acoustic sonar, the image becomes less clear the farther a seabed object is from the equipment. But with SAS, the image remains sharp regardless of an object's distance.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 31 2016, @04:37PM
If we actually cared about planes we would have online tracking. Looking for black boxes or even the entire aircraft post mortem in 2015 is absolutely ridiculous. What about the hundreds of satellites in the sky?
And regarding acts or terrorism against planes, how about the downed plane above russia/ukraine? It's a known act of terrorism -- and nothing happened, except russia vetoing the UN panel to investigate it. Besides that, keep your terror fantasies at bay. More people die of falling over their feet on slippery sidewalks...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 31 2016, @05:00PM
The plane that was downed in Russia resulted in some actions being taken. All the authorities involved in routing aircraft over, around, and through Europe FAILED to take into account that there was a war going on. Immediately after Kiev shot down that aircraft, virtually every authority in the world loudly proclaimed that airspace "closed".
You gotta pay attention, at least a little bit.
Also, go back and read what I actually put into type. I stressed the "COULD HAVE BEEN" quite loudly. At this point in time, no one knows if Flight 370 was the victim of a terror plot. Anything goes right now. It COULD HAVE BEEN little green men from space that caused the crash.
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