Monday, October 6, 2014

Retry find MH370 – New Technology

       

Today, Monday, October 6 arrived vessel GO Phoenix to the new location where the search for MH370 will resume. The plane from Malaysia Airlines with 239 passengers who disappeared March 8, 2014 is considered one of aviation history’s greatest mysteries.

The starting point for the search is the suspicion of the fuel ran out and the plane crashed into the sea off Australia. Through analysis of data from mobile and satellite experts have identified a 60,000 square kilometer area that is now to be scanned. The search should be done with small underwater vehicles equipped with side scouting sonars and sensors, among other things, detect traces of jet fuel. They shall not be removed Go Phoenix and another vessel equipped with ten kilometers long cables attached to underwater vehicle engines. However, they are sensitive and must not collide with the rock formations or other obstructions on the seabed, writes AP. Therefore, the search area in recent months been scanned by vessels with equipment designed detailed 3D maps of terrain on the ocean floor where the submarine engines to each other about 100 feet above the contour lines.

When something interesting is found to be U-boats hoisted up to the surface and be equipped with video cameras and then lowered to the wreck site for more detailed analysis.

Then the vessels can only run 11 km / h when towing sonar equipment, it is a time consuming search that now run started. Up to one year shall be sustained unless the plane found before then.

The entire project is estimated to cost up to the equivalent of one billion where authorities Malaysia and Australia was invested as much, writes AP.

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