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MH370 search: why give hope when there was none?
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- angry_octet 9y agoI don't know what axe the author has to grind, but the article is full of half-truths and sophistry. All this pretending that the French should have done the search because of the Air France crash -- the successful part of the search was by the US company Metron, who have been the world leaders for decades. If you want to read about it: https://www.bea.aero/uploads/tx_elyextendttnews/metron.search.analysis.pdf https://www.bea.aero/uploads/tx_elyextendttnews/metron.searc... https://www.informs.org/ORMS-Today/Public-Articles/August-Volume-38-Number-4/In-Search-of-Air-France-Flight-447 https://www.informs.org/ORMS-Today/Public-Articles/August-Vo... Metron didn't win the tender to do the search, but they confirmed that it is a much more difficult problem, with far fewer constraints: https://www.wired.com/2015/08/where-to-find-mh370/ https://www.wired.com/2015/08/where-to-find-mh370/ http://fusion2015.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Fusion2015_PlenaryTalk_ColleenKeller.pdf http://fusion2015.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Fusion2015_... Which is entirely consistent with the ATSB/DST report: https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/5733804/Bayesian_Methods_MH370_Search_3Dec2015.pdf https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/5733804/Bayesian_Methods_MH370... https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/5747317/ae2014054_mh370-definition_of_underwater_search_areas_3dec2015_update.pdf https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/5747317/ae2014054_mh370-defini... https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-10-0379-0 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-10-0379-0 As to the unprovable contention that it was all a PR stunt to assuage the fears of the flying public and a sop to the relatives, yes politicans are ghastly, but you don't spend that much money if you think there is no chance in finding it.