Australia says no time limit on Flight 370 search

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By ROB GRIFFITH and GILLIAN WONG

PERTH, Australia (AP) - Although it has been slow, difficult and frustrating so far, the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet is nowhere near the point of being scaled back, Australia's prime minister said.

The three-week hunt for Flight 370 has turned up no sign of the Boeing 777, which vanished March 8 with 239 people bound for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. Ten planes and 11 ships found no sign of the missing plane in the search zone in the southern Indian Ocean, about 1,850 kilometers (1,150 miles) west of Australia, officials said.

The search area has evolved as experts analyzed Flight 370's limited radar and satellite data, moving from the seas off Vietnam, to the waters west of Malaysia and Indonesia, and then to several areas west of Australia. The search zone is now 254,000 square kilometers (98,000 square miles), about a 2 1/2-hour flight from Perth.

Malaysia has been criticized for its handling of the search, particularly its communications to the media and the family. In something likely to fuel those concerns, the government changed its account of the final voice transmission from the cockpit.

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A Chinese relative of passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is comforted by a monk as she breaks into tears following prayers at a Buddhist temple in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, Monday March 31, 2014. Relatives from China are in the country to seek answers of what happened to their loved one on board flight MH370. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

[AtheistCrusader]

1. Coming up on end of life for the batteries in the locator beacon.

If they don't pick up that signal soon...

[quadrature]

2. no time limit to spending someone else's money...nt

[Skittles]

3. it needs to be known what happened to that plane

I applaud all efforts to find the truth

[Hestia]

4. And we may need to entertain the possibility that we will never know what happened.

How long did it take them to find the plane from France that went down in the Atlantic? What is it, 10 years?

Why all the drama with this particular flight? Why the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments by the victims families allowed to drive the investigation? Based on the hysteria being aired, you'd think that this is the very first plane to ever go down in aviation history.

Which begs the question, who is paying for this? I desperately hope it is not the US. All we've gotten for the last 6+ years is austerity, austerity, austerity, yet funds for this type of operation are endless?

It boggles the mind...

In anticipation of finger-pointing, yes, I do feel for the victims and their families. I never want anyone to go through this, and I do hope it was the least painful process for all involved.

Yet, at the same time, in life You Pays Your Money and You Takes Your Chances...

As always, YMMV

[Skittles]

5. the Air France blackbox was located in a little under two years

as for the media, I have no clue

[quadrature]

6. AF447, wreckage at the bottom, ...

was found 40 miles from the last known
position, after 2 years of searching.

...............
MH370.......
c'mon, we have NO IDEA
where it is.

[Hestia]

8. Thank you - for whatever reason I thought it was longer. But still - it was not an immediate

answer. Maybe the families from those passengers and crew could go to Malaysia and help with grief counseling? Help them process the fact that just because we have the most sophisticated equipment - accidents can and do happen. I mean, c'mon, it's been what 21/23 days now?

Again, I do feel sorrow for their pain but they need professional help not a camera in their faces. Seeing them screaming upsets me more than the plane going down. It is just so wrong...

[Theyletmeeatcake2]

7. Australia has a highly sophisticated horizon radar system that could have helped but.....

Was pointed north to track so called illegal boat people who brave the seas in dilapidated boats provided by unscrupulous people smugglers in Indonesia....great use of a multi billion dollar system that was supposed to be a defence measure...the prime minister mad monk tony Abbott is a dog whistling piece of garbage who once said he'd bend himself over a table and take it in the arse to become prime minister....says it all really

[Hestia]

9. My...that's taking it the nth degree, eh? Wow...