May 30, 2014
Anne Davies
The exposure of a false trail of pings (click here) has led to experts abandoning a search area identified as the final resting place of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, calling into question two months of search efforts.
The area in the Indian Ocean became the focus of international attention on April 11 after the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, announced he was confident signals had been detected from MH370's black box, narrowing the search to an 850-square kilometre zone.
But on Thursday Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss went before Parliament to say the ''pings'' were the best information the government had at the time but "the area can now be discounted."...
That is all countries have been doing is deploying assets wherever someone BELIEVES there is a possibility to the remains of the aircraft. I realize there was a timeline, but, evidence would have been good and the oceans don't give up proof all that quickly.
The missing plane is still a worry. It was a large plane with capacity and as far as I am concerned there needs to be an understanding this plane is still a potential threat. For the USA that means NORAD pays attention. It won't have transponders or otherwise to identify it's flight. A little bit tricky I would say. NORAD has to be sure the planes they are monitoring are safe while being able to identify a potential rouge plane.
Additionally, there are 239 passengers and it's crew still missing.
The governments involved in this search are not to blame for it's failure. The logistics of the airliner itself was compromised without proper tracking equipment before it even left the ground. This area of the world still lacks sophistication in aviation technology and within that reality lies danger to their national security. If there is to be a focus coming out of this attempt to bring comfort to families is the fact there are huge gaps in a nation's security that needs to be closed.
My sympathies to the families. Eventually, the fate of the aircraft will be known, but, until there is confirming evidence it remains a mystery. Mysteries happen. Earth is a planet and it's oceans vast and unknown in many ways. It only goes to prove what we don't know about our world and how it cannot be taken for granted in knowing the outcome of any human activity.
