In a statement made late in November, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre said that only one vessel is conducting search operation on the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 after a medical emergency of a crew member onboard Fugro Discovery halted its operations.
The vessel has since sailed to Fremantle to have its injured crew, who has been experiencing severe pain.
The center also said that the incident is a reminder of the difficult conditions under which crew members of the search vessels work. The vessels also spend 42 days at sea between port calls under weather conditions which can be physically arduous and tiring for the crew.
The incident is the second time in November. Early last month, a crew member of Fugro Discovery also fell ill that forced the vessel to return to port so the crew member could receive immediate treatment at a hospital in Australia. The crew member was diagnosed to be suffering from appendicitis.
The multi-million dollar search for the ill-fated plane has dragged on for months with very little success. While a wing part of the plane was already found a few months ago off the coast of Reunion Island in Africa, the full wreckage remains missing
This is a significant change of tune for Australia’s ATSB which, so far, has led a $100 million failed effort to locate the aircraft. One of the main, but unspoken, reason’s underlying the ATSB’s choice of it’s current SA was their belief that Capt. Shah commandeered the aircraft, killed everyone else on board, and then flew the aircraft at cruise altitude and speed deep into the southern ocean.
An Egypt Air 777 only 2 serial numbers apart from the MH370 aircraft suffered a catastrophic cockpit oxygen fire while parked at the gate. It is a fact that maintenance repressurized 370’s cockpit emergency oxygen system prior to takeoff. The pressure in the system was low possibly indicating a pending failure in the system.
I believe that 370 suffered a flash cockpit oxygen fire moments after reaching cruise altitude. Capt. Shah heroically ordered his copilot (Hamid) to evacuate the cockpit and directed the aircraft in a return to nearest airport before dying in the fire. Hamid survived for some time and tried to make a phone call on his personal cell phone. I believe that he may have been responsible for 370’s turn back to the south. The rudder pedal servo’s are located in the floor of the cockpit and may have survived the burned out cockpit.
This crippled aircraft flew to fuel exhaustion at 10,000 to 12,000 feet and a velocity of between 300kts and 350kts. if ever found it will be located approximately 1,000 km northeast to the ATSB’s current SA.
I would be delighted to eat humble pie if they do find MH370 in their current search area, but that is not going to happen.
ATSB analysis is deeply flawed by discarding or ignoring vital clues. Key amongst these are the floating debris spotted much further south by satellites in March 2014.
ATSB’s own reasoning is obviously wrong. In their report of 26 June 2014 it was concluded that MH370’s flight south most closely resembled hypoxic flight. Now their new report of 3 December 2015 announces massive electrical failure was the only logical explanation for loss of ACARS contact at 18:04 UTC.
If MH370 suffered massive electrical failure at the very beginning and hypoxic flight at the end, then ipso facto the intricate turns through the Straits of Malacca were impossible.
When warren Truss & ATSB finally eat some humble pie and stop banging the drum like a team of cheerleaders, maybe we can get on with a real 7 objective investigation?