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from the many-eyes-make-all-bugs-shallow-sort-of-thing dept.
Taco Cowboy writes:
"Yep, it's that ill-fated Boeing 777 with 239 on board which has disappeared without a trace. Even after 4 days of search by a fleet of over 50 vessels and 40+ planes and an increasing number of satellites, no one has yet find that plane, or any part of it.
If you have free time and want to help out, here's your chance.
A US satellite company is releasing high-def photos of the sea near or at the area where that plane was last tracked, in hoping that people can help finding clues in regarding the whereabout of that missing plane.
The link to that crowdsourcing event is at http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/352096/scitec h/socialmedia/us-based-satellite-imaging-company-crowdsources-search-for-missing-mh370-plane. The mapping can be viewed on the Tomnod site here."
[Ed's Note: I tried the Tomnod link 3 times and was only successful on 1 occasion. It seems they are having problems coping with the response.]
(Score: 2) by Angry Jesus on Wednesday March 12 2014, @01:57PM
> The idea that a complete electrical failure occurred thus rendering communications inop seems very unlikely.
However, it could have simply been bad conditions for radio communication and the pilots were unable to establish contact before crashing.
In support of this theory is a report that vietnamese air control had to ask another plane to relay a message to the now missing plane [nst.com.my] and even that contact had a lot of interference.