While investigators have yet to find any debris of the missing plane, the combined search and investigating team from Malaysia, Australia and China has said that they would most likely leave the plane wreckage on the ocean floor if and when they find it.
They said that they would just get the parts that would be required for the probe and not the entire wreckage. Those likely parts are the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder first and foremost as the equipment would reveal all the details about the ill-fated flight.
The recovery plan was disclosed by a spokesperson from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau in the event that the wreckage of the missing aircraft is found on the ocean bed. He added that the plan was actually agreed upon by the Ministers of the three countries involved in the search and retrieval operations in a meeting held late in April.
The search teams have been scouring the waters as far as the southern Indian Ocean, but they still have not found anything at all about the missing plane.
Apart from being too laborious and expensive, the search and investigating team believe that recovering the entire aircraft from the ocean floor if and when they eventually find it is unnecessary.
I think it is unfair criticism of the crews on search vessels and appears to be a claim leveled by fanatical members of what is called the “Independent Group,” an affiliation of mathematicians & satellite engineers who promoted analysis suggesting the 7th Arc seabed search in the first place. The ATSB analysts & “Independent Group” are so close in fact feeding each other information that they are hard to tell apart.
Having had their predictions & conclusions disproved so stunningly, rather than eat humble pie they have turned upon & attacked those at sea who diligently spent months scouring the seabed. Fact is if it was where they said it was, MH370 would have been found by now.
It is the same “Independent Group” who object that 400+ floating objects seen by satellite about 425nm south of the seabed search could not in their opinion be debris from MH370, yet their opinion has proved fruitless and misleading.
It is time the ATSB shifted the search south and used China’s reverse drift analysis of debris seen in March 2014.