The underwater search will end in June this year if no targets of interest are identified on the seabed by then.
The minimum operational performance specification for CVR/FDRs is 30 days at 20,000 feet depth. Data has been recovered from recorders after a couple of years in such environments (AF447's black boxes spent almost 2 years in the ocean at 13,000 feet before they were recovered and read). It's not impossible that data could still be recovered in this case but it will very much depend on the state of the unit immediately after sea surface impact, which will obviously affect the speed of progression of corrosion.
Good, good. You've self-identified the value of your contribution.
Sorry, I hadn't realised that you were intimately familiar with both the nature of discovery of each part, the level of cleaning each piece underwent before it was brought to public attention, the typical depth of immersion of each part, its path across the Indian Ocean, the circumstances of its separation from the aircraft (and thus whether or not it was doused in any number of bio-antagonistic fluids or lubricants) and the innate relative toxicities of each piece of material in respect of biofouling.
the powers that be
* cough *It had enough fuel to get [to Mozambique]?
Then clearly you've not done your research properly.
Despite my listing them and your not?
But you graciously go on to acknowledge them as potential factors…
Not my theory. Simply the agreement of separate, independent oceanographic circulation modelling and also contemporaneous measurements. It's all back there in this thread.
No need to if I don't resort to hyperbole and pulling random figures from out of the nearest available orifice. Feel free to take anything I say apart; just make sure you provide the numbers and calculations or references to the relevant published research work.
I'd suggest methodical investigation rather than popular conspiraloon pet theories. The circumstances of the discovery of all parts thus far is not inconsistent with loss of aircraft in the eastern Indian Ocean and then redistribution of debris by the known circulations.
Once again - see the oceanographic modelling and relevant circulation observations referred to earlier in the thread.
go on then.
I did - it's right there under your nose. Once again...
I've done all the work and spoon fed it to you but your intellectual indolence extends to not even digesting those morsels.
You ought to try improving your research skills: oceanographers pointed out in the weeks following the disappearance of MH370 (some 15 months before material started turning up) that the debris would end up in the Indian Ocean gyre, circulating anti-clockwise from the eastern Indian ocean, north then westwards to Africa, and then south down the African coast before heading back eastwards. A cycle that can take around up to six years, though some material will end up in the slack of the Indian Ocean Garbage Patch. From that NatGeo article (published less than 4 weeks after the plane disappeared): "If the Malaysian Boeing 777 crashed into the zone off the west coast of Australia where searchers are now looking, and if some of that debris remains undiscovered, it is already on its journey west toward Madagascar to join the rest of the junk in the Indian Ocean garbage patch, arriving in about a year".
Sadly only substantive articles from 23 months ago and diagrams a decade or more ago in the scientific literature on oceanography. Will those suffice?
It's not up to other posters to do your reading and research for you. You've been spoon-fed a lot more than most have on here by someone extremely knowledgeable on this topic, and you don't even have the decency to read it.
