Barnacles could hold key to finding wreckage of Malaysia Airlines MH370
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/barnacles-could-hold-key-to-finding-wreckage-of-malaysia-airlines-mh370/

On Friday, August 25, 2023 at 2:54:14 PM UTC+10, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> Barnacles could hold key to finding wreckage of Malaysia Airlines MH370
> https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/barnacles-could-hold-key-to-finding-wreckage-of-malaysia-airlines-mh370/

Maybe we should drop a a and Jan Panteltje into the Indian Ocean. They aren't actually barnacles, but for all the good they do here, they might as well be.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

On Friday, August 25, 2023 at 12:54:14 AM UTC-4, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> Barnacles could hold key to finding wreckage of Malaysia Airlines MH370
> https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/barnacles-could-hold-key-to-finding-wreckage-of-malaysia-airlines-mh370/

That looks like a stretch.

On a sunny day (Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:55:09 -0700 (PDT)) it happened Fred Bloggs
<bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote in
<bb4eeaa2-d85b-4789-917d-6fd93f61feedn@googlegroups.com>:

>On Friday, August 25, 2023 at 12:54:14 AM UTC-4, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>> Barnacles could hold key to finding wreckage of Malaysia Airlines MH370
>
>> https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/barnacles-could-hold-key-to-finding-wreckage-of-malaysia-airlines-mh370/
>
>That looks like a stretch.

Yes, but other methods have failed, so why not give it a go?
Seems that method had some success.

Of course it could all be deliberately have been obfuscated as it was accidently shot down by <name a country>
and they then deliberately gave the wrong radar tracking as a cover up.
Things had been shot down there before.

Although it looks like an attempt to return that somehow failed,
then why no radio contact with a mayday if there was a steering or some other problem?

On Saturday, August 26, 2023 at 12:30:17 AM UTC-4, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> On a sunny day (Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:55:09 -0700 (PDT)) it happened Fred Bloggs
> <bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote in
> <bb4eeaa2-d85b-4789...@googlegroups.com>:
> >On Friday, August 25, 2023 at 12:54:14 AM UTC-4, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> >> Barnacles could hold key to finding wreckage of Malaysia Airlines MH370
> >
> >> https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/barnacles-could-hold-key-to-finding-wreckage-of-malaysia-airlines-mh370/
> >
> >That looks like a stretch.
> Yes, but other methods have failed, so why not give it a go?
> Seems that method had some success.
>
> Of course it could all be deliberately have been obfuscated as it was accidently shot down by <name a country>
> and they then deliberately gave the wrong radar tracking as a cover up.
> Things had been shot down there before.
>
> Although it looks like an attempt to return that somehow failed,
> then why no radio contact with a mayday if there was a steering or some other problem?

The plane must have been hijacked. It was heading for Beijing, so it was probably some Chinese individual. When you nosedive an aircraft into the water at 500 knots, the wreckage is very fragmented, which means they're not going to find any large intact pieces with a sonar scan. There is nothing to be found. The flaperon is very telling because those control surfaces are exposed to destructive forces when the craft is mishandled and are the first to go, it probably got ripped off in a wild maneuver.