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Go Ben!!!! Very succinct point;

Our government has not had the guts to publicly query this either. Do we have to wait a few decades for the release of the Cabinet papers?

The steaming pile that this investigation has turned into is gathering more flies by the day. I've said it before an will say it again that either China or the Yanks, or both, know exactly where the aircraft came down (when I say exactly I mean within a reasonably accurate search grid). The spy satellite technology is second to none and the 'birds' would have known where the plane came down. Furthermore, if there was a Nuke Sub within a few thousand nautical miles, and I would say there are more than one traversing those very waters, it would have also detected the impact sound. So the Governments can play with themselves all they want to, but not the entire world is asleep at the wheel and they should stop insulting our intelligence.

As for Ben's work, it is excellent. Perhaps Ben should be the one sitting at a board table, basking in glory and accolades and mi mi mi-ing in front of a giant glass of water, because Beaker is as useful as a Carboard cutout! Wait a minute, I forgot, he is a Carboard cutout.........on second thoughts, can we pull those TRIM files to see what they contain???

"Unsafe sky cover-ups for all"

you make me laugh Gobbles, on the subject of Beaker - I see the MMSM managed to get yet another pearl of wisdom from the super sleuth commissioner in the latest update on MH370   

MH370 recovery set to leave aircraft on sea floor  

Media Speculation Over Flight MH370 Runs Rampant5:29

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STILL MISSING. Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Source: Getty Source: Getty Images 
 
MOST of the wreckage of MH370 will be left on the ocean floor when it is eventually found by searchers.  

Despite the complete absence of any debris being found, search organisers are well advanced in the process of contracting a company to undertake the recovery operation.
But it seems almost certain any effort will focus simply on components required for the investigation, such as the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder.



TOUGH GOING. Fugro Discovery experiencing bad weather in the search for MH370. Picture: by ABIS Chris Beerens, RAN. Source: Supplied 


An Australian Transport Safety Bureau spokesman said plans for recovery activities in the event the aircraft was found, were agreed to by Ministers from Malaysia, Australia and China at a meeting last month.

“The plans are not a public document at present,” said the spokesman.
“However it is not expected that it would be necessary to recover the entire aircraft but rather selected components.”

Shortlist assembled

He said a short list of suppliers had been identified from the request for expression of interest process for the recovery operation.

WHAT HAPPENED? The theories about MH370’s disappearance
“The formal contracting of services for recovery will only occur if and when MH370 is positively identified,” the spokesman said.



DISCOVERY. The search for MH370 has so far uncovered an uncharted shipwreck but not the missing aircraft. Pic: ATSB via Getty Images Source: Getty Images 

It is not clear if the recovery will include the bodies of the 239 people on board, including six Australians.

The Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared on March 8 last year, on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

MH370: New ‘credible theory’ where plane went down

The lack of floating debris from the aircraft has been described as “not unusual” by ATSB Commissioner Martin Dolan, who said any flotsam was now likely in the middle of the Indian Ocean, or on the sea floor.

Winter stand-down

The search effort in the Southern Indian Ocean has been scaled down considerably for the winter months when bad weather will hamper the use of sensitive sonar equipment.
However crews have already moved out of the initial 60,000 square kilometre “priority area” into the expanded zone covering a total of 120,000 square kilometres of seabed.

MH 370 The theories

FOR 12 months, the world has waited and wondered about the fate of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 and the 239 onboard - a mystery so out of step with modern day technology no-one has been able to find it nor work out what happened.

Freak Fire
Sabotage
It Landed
Shot Down
Controls Hacked
Wild Weather
Pilot Suicide
Terrorists
Expert's View

Disclaimer: The plane in this interactive is for illustrative purposes only.

“Expert advice is that the highest probability of locating the aircraft is within the 120,000 square kilometre search area,” said the ATSB’s latest operational update.
“Beyond that, it is not possible to refine the search area to one of greater likelihood.”

To date the search operation has cost around $60 million with Australia and Malaysia jointly footing the bill.

Each country is expected to stump up another $50 million for the expanded search, and any recovery.

In case you missed it Gobbles here was the Beaker quote...

"..The lack of floating debris from the aircraft has been described as “not unusual” by ATSB Commissioner Martin Dolan, who said any flotsam was now likely in the middle of the Indian Ocean, or on the sea floor.."

So there you go (Simon Gunson et.al), there is the answer for the total lack of MH370 flotsam - from our resident ATSB search guru - it is in the middle of the Indian Ocean or sunk...FFS!

MTF...P2