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BBC have just broadcast this satellite image which Chinese officials believe could be wreckage from Flight #MH370. pic.twitter.com/Lk9tGzw0BV
https://twitter.com/PzFeed/status/443846868947439616/photo/1
global1
(25,272 posts)is that on land or on the water?
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hlthe2b
(102,379 posts)Wishing for closure is making me see things that aren't there.
hlthe2b
(102,379 posts)those poor families....
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)CNN has been reporting the dimensions, which range up to more than 70 feet.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,368 posts)I'd think the only pieces that large would be made out of metal. Could they still have something attached buoyant enough to g=keep them afloat?
Uben
(7,719 posts)Those things are huge and may have deployed on impact.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Hey could just have pockets of air inside them it could be enough to keep them semi buoyant.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,368 posts)though the tail fin was found floating, which I hadn't realised: http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/14/opinion/oe-garrison14
so I guess that can be airtight and with air inside, not 70 feet, but maybe large enough to be mistaken for 70 feet. Or a deployed slide, as suggested above. We'll see, I guess.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)It seems I had a post fail since I spelled a few things wrong and there was a lingering "t".
Sometimes that happens to me
jsr
(7,712 posts)global1
(25,272 posts)From watching CNN - they have the images on now - this image was seen on the water. My question now is - is this possible wreckage consistent with a plane hitting the water at such a speed that it could have?
I thought they said that the plane would break apart in a million pieces and that debris would be strewn around for miles?
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)A Chinese satellite looking into the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 "observed a suspected crash area at sea," a Chinese government agency said -- a potentially pivotal lead into what has been a frustrating search for the Boeing 777.
China's State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense announced the discovery, including images of what it said were "three suspected floating objects and their sizes."
The images in the Strait of Malacca were captured on March 9 -- which was the day after the plane went missing -- but weren't released until Wednesday.
This isn't the first time that authorities have announced they were looking into objects or oil slicks that might be tied to plane, which went missing last Saturday.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/12/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
morningfog
(18,115 posts)military radar seeing it on the western side. Which was then denied.