Wooden pallet with strapping belts found Saturday in MH370 search is common in airline and shipping

[itsrobert]

Last edited Sun Mar 23, 2014, 11:58 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: CNN

Wooden pallet with strapping belts found Saturday in MH370 search is common in airline and shipping industries, Australian official says.


Pallet found

On Saturday, searchers found a wooden pallet as well as strapping belts, AMSA's John Young said. The use of wooden pallets is common in the airline industry


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_inthenews

[JI7]

1. would they be able to identify the origins of it ?

[jmowreader]

2. Possible.

If there's something unusual painted on the pallet, they MIGHT be able to trace it back, using shipping documentation. But if it's just a wooden skid with a Kinedyne strap on it (Kinedyne is a huge manufacturer of cargo straps, and their straps are used worldwide), then no.

[JI7]

4. would they be able to tell something like the age, or how long it had been in the water ?

i was thinking that might help. if they know it was just in the water about the amount of time the plane has been missing .

[itsrobert]

6. that's probably could help

I think scientist can figure it out.

[itsrobert]

3. If there are no markings they probably can do lab test

to see where the wood originated and if there are some Malaysian microorganism/bugs that hitched a ride in the wood.



http://www.kwch.com/news/national/URGENT-Malaysia-plane-wooden-pallet/25112542







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(CNN) -- One piece of debris found was a wooden pallet as well as strapping belts, an Australian search official said. The use of wooden pallets is common in the airline industry, he added. "It's a possible lead...but pallets are used in the shipping industry as well."

[longship]

5. Sheesh! Like a strapped wooden pallet is never shipped by other than commercial air.

CNN has long since gone off the deep end. I truly believe that the evidence for such a claim can be definitively backed up by the following:



QED

On edit:One presumes that Wolf didn't lose by not understanding the concept of "Please form your response in the form of a question." But I truly believe that he just is not very smart.

[tofuandbeer]

8. :D

[Enraged_Ape]

23. Ha ha. I remember that episode.

I knew Wolf Blitzer was no intellectual Hercules, but it was jaw-dropping to see how dumb he actually is.

[MADem]

7. There was a large number of lithium batteries being shipped on that flight.

That might have been the cause. Those things can catch on fire.

[tofuandbeer]

9. Agreed

[SoapBox]

10. The batteries...

I had not heard about that.

Makes me think of another horrific incident...ValuJet...the oxygen generators and tires...stupid, stupid, stupid.

[MADem]

11. It was reported in the NYT and affiliated papers--buried in the article.

They also talked about those pallets...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/a-routine-flight-till-both-routine-and-flight-vanish.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Outside, ground crews loaded the passenger luggage into the jet’s cargo hold, which can carry up to six pallets and 14 shipping containers. The airline said no hazardous or valuable goods were on the flight. But among the cargo were a “significant” number of lithium batteries — which can be flammable — more than is typically sent in a shipment, one American official said.

[AtheistCrusader]

12. I doubt burning batteries get you thousands of miles off course

jinking around ground radars, etc.

I could believe something like that if the issue was a plane that just flew on unresponsive in an autopilot heading, until it crashed, completely out of fuel. Crew and passengers poisoned by the smoke.

But that doesn't explain seemingly directed, intelligent commands to change heading and altitude.

[MADem]

13. The batteries could have shorted out critical systems.

Created a Payne Stewart scenario...and the plane flew on.

[AtheistCrusader]

14. But the plane didn't fly in a straight line.

The Payne Stewart flight just kept on going. Till it ran out of fuel.

The vanished 777 changed course, many times.

[MADem]

15. Perhaps the first system affected was the oxygen to the passenger compartment...

The pilots set a course for an airport, realize they can't make it, and then try to turn and go back....then the lithium battery fire shorts out the critical systems (like their oxygen) in the cockpit.

But they're already on a heading...and they just KEEP GOING....and going...and going.

[AtheistCrusader]

16. Circumstances don't fit.

The plane must have changed course twice after it crossed back over the mainland. Once to the north, and once drastically to the south.

(Assuming it is, indeed, on the 'red line' of possible locations it could be, given the satellite pings)

[MADem]

17. Hopefully we'll get some answers soon. I rule nothing out until we get the data and the

experts can have a look at it.

[Enraged_Ape]

24. The whole thing just doesn't add up.

I fully expect the plane to land in another week at its destination. And everyone on board will disembark, in perfect condition, and wonder what all the fuss is about, no time having passed for them.

And the camera will quickly pan to Rod Serling, cigarette in hand, saying, "Submitted for your approval..."

[MADem]

26. You're travelling through another dimension....!!!

[Android3.14]

18. This seems unlikely

There would have been radio communication of a fire event or the plane would have crashed immediately or flown in a straight line if everyone was dead. Since neither consequences occurred, it seems unlikely a fire caused the disappearance.

[lob1]

19. Patience, we'll have answers soon. The CNN psychic is on it.

But imho, it's looking like the black hole did it.

[quadrature]

20. why are lithium-batteries being moved by air freight?

air freight is an environmental disaster.

[Ms. Toad]

21. Must be an "oops, never mind"

Nothing at the link about wooden pallet with strapping belts...

[OKNancy]

22. French satellite spots potential objects

Breaking News ?@BreakingNews 38m
Malaysia: New satellite images from French authorities show potential objects in missing jet southern search zone, official says - @H2OComms

[BlueCollar]

25. wooden pallets on a 777?

I'm not buying it...