If MH370 crashed in southern Indian Ocean it wouldn't be seen or heard

[morningfog]

The southern Indian Ocean, where investigators suspect missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have come down, is one place where a commercial airliner can crash without a ship spotting it, a radar plotting it or even a satellite picking it up.

The empty expanse of water is one of the most remote places in the world and also one of the deepest, posing potentially enormous challenges for the international search effort focusing on the area, one of several possible crash sites.

Even Australia, which has island territories in the Indian Ocean and sends rescue planes to pluck stricken yachtsmen from the cold, mountainous seas in the south from time to time, has no radar coverage much beyond its Indian Ocean coast.

“In most of Western Australia and almost all of the Indian Ocean, there is almost no radar coverage,” an Australian civil aviation authority source said, requesting anonymity as he was not authorised to speak on the record.

“If anything is more than 100 kilometres offshore, you don’t see it.”

The Indian Ocean, the world’s third largest, has an average depth of about 3600 metres. That is deeper than the Atlantic where it took two years to find wreckage from an Air France plane that vanished in 2009 even though floating debris quickly pointed to the crash site.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/16/if-mh370-crashed-in-southern-indian-ocean-it-wouldnt-be-seen-or-heard

[Renew Deal]

1. If it's not seen or heard, did it really crash?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. I think people are getting too caught up the hijack aspect.....

..... because of the fact the plane apparently went off course under control.

If that pilot committed suicide he wouldn't be the first to try and disguise the fact it was suicide.

Where else is a better place of ensuring no black boxes are found.

I sure hope it is a ransom and hijack. That would mean the passengers are alive.

My best guess is. The suiciding pilot waited till the other pilot was out of the cockpit (reaching cruise altitude is a good time for a potty break) depressurized the cabin to knock everyone out fast. Flew the plane off course where it would never be found. And crashed it in the deep ocean.