Missing Plane: Debris Possibly Found?

[ChillDoubt]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26659951

Two large pieces of debris have been found by satellite imagery in the southern Indian Ocean claims the Australian PM.
One piece measures some 24 metres in length.

For the families sake I hope it leads to something tangible, if nothing else.

[janbee]

I heard that on the news this morning. Weather bad in that area so searchers are having a difficult time.

[albaqwerty]

Heard on the news this morning too.
'They' are saying that some of the ships are days away from the area,
if it is wreckage from the plane, I hope that brings some closure to the bereaved.

[lady-janine]

as alba said closure for the victims families would be a release from the pain of wondering what had happened to your loved one. the pain of loss is still there but the pain of worrying what is occurring will be gone. hope it is all clarified soon.

[Old_Geezer]

Well, they did find other debris earlier that turned out to not be related. We shall have to wait and see.

[emmie]

i hope so too, must be awful for the families not knowing

[mikey4444]

This story is getting ridiculous. Out of the 25 or so different nations that this plane could have flown into the air space of, none of them have seen anything, despite having spent eye-watering amounts of money on defence systems and satellites. Something is seriously amiss here.

All these defence systems were designed not to track civilian aircraft but military armaments. But it now seems that all a rogue nation has to do is to hijack a scheduled airliner and it can do pretty well whatever it likes and nobody is going to any the wiser until that aircraft crashes into a capital city somewhere.

I hope to God that al-Qaeda hasn't been paying too close attention to the news this last 10 days.

[LazyGun]

People have becomes fixated on quick fixes. I blame shows like NCIS and CSI, where every fact is nailed down or positively identified by the magic of technology and science within the hour, each week.

We forget the size of the earth, physically speaking. We forget how much of the planet is hostile, or desolate, or simply empty of human infrastructure - difficult to get to. We forget just how limited is the search response - just the other day it was as little as 12 planes, eyeballing vast stretches of water and uninhabited land, searching areas as vast as the continent of Australia.

We forget that satellites are positioned for navigational purposes, GPS, broadcasting and military so are mostly positioned to see populated areas, not the more desolate regions.

And trying to fly and unscheduled, unexpected jet into the airspace of any developed country will be picked up pretty quickly, I think.

[jno]

this isn't even Australia, it's thousands of miles from anywhere (including Beijing), way out in the Southern Ocean. It's as remote as any jungle.

[Booldawg]

and there was me laughing at Courtney Cox the other day...

[jomifl]

The Malaysian spokesman said that it 'gave them hope'. can't see how that works.