Sub hunting for source of 'pings' in plane search

No floating wreckage is strange...

Is it possible that the plane made a "soft" landing on the water and sank intact thus, no wreckage? Kind of like the landing made on the Hudson river a few years back.

This story seems odd. The technology that is available these days can pretty much detect anything you say and do and knows exactly where you are any given second yet they couldn`t keep track of a 400 ton aircraft.

@pointofview: it has been reported that such technology is not implanted on planes because it's too costly for the companies. Hopes are that after this accident, IATA makes it mandatory from now on.

No floating wreckage is strange..

Maybe the floating wreckage already floated hundreds of miles away over the weeks (and a typhoon).

If you think it is "strange" or "odd" please open Google Earth take a gander around that part of the world - massive empty space. Then add the depth. Now factor in the tides. Lastly, consider that a month has passed. When you consider all of this, it easy to understand why they can't find anything.

I think Meguroman is right. Just think of the fact that there are football fields of detritus floating in the ocean all over the place that, if found, they can never hope to clean up. Now imagine one small plane (relatively speaking) in the currents spoken of in that area, and it seems likely they'll not find anything in the immediate area, and if they ever do it'll be some remote location from where the plane (probably) went down. That said, I hope they stop raising our hopes up until they have something solid.

It is still a baffling mystery. Some say that if there had been American citizens aboard or if the plane was American, they would have found it within hours of it disappearing. Now it seems hard to think of a reason other than pilot suicide (but why not just crash the plane into a mountain somewhere) or a failed hijack by one or more other people.

My guy wonders if the plane even took off. Something really just stinks about this "accident".

Considering that they had no radar contact for over 4 hours and they didn't know at what altitude and speed the plane was flying, fat change of finding anything. As for the satellite ping, it is untested technology. I would be surprised if those pings are from the black boxes. Since there were reports that the airline didn't store the batteries correctly, doubt that they would last this long.

@Meguroman,

Your comment makes no sense. Endless technology these days to keep track of everything at any given time in this world. Rather than implemeting this technology in the transportation world it`s used to keep track of "YOU."