If We Found The Wreck, What Would Happen Next?
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Welcome to a very special episode of mini air investigation. Now before we get started just a heads up this isnt based on any reports but on investigative techniques used by other investigators in other crashes. With that let's get started. I'm sure youre all familiar with the story of MH370, its this century's most puzzling disappearance. A Boeing 777 operated by malaysian airlines from kuala lumpur to Beijing China just disappeared without a trace. Now im not gonna delve into how the plane disappeared nor am i going to pretend like i know where it is or tell you how it went missing or what happened to it. Because frankly no one does. All we know for sure is that it went down somewhere in the southern indian ocean. We know that because in the years since 2014 parts of the plane have washed up on islands in the Indian ocean.
What I want to focus on today is what will happen after we find the wreck Of MH 370. Now you might think that thats impossible the ocean is huge and and the moment no ones even looking for the plane. But there are organizations out there that routinely map the seafloor for scientific reasons. For example there's a company out there that want to map the entire sea bed by the year 2030. It's not unreasonable to assume that one of these expeditions could accidentally stumble onto the wreck off MH370.
So let me paint you a picture. It's the year 2065 and one of these ships tasked with mapping the sea bed of the southern indian ocean is chugging away as it sends sonar pulses down to the ocean floor. An operator constantly checks the sonar returns, as the ship moves along a grainy shape starts to form on the screen. Theyve just stumbled across the wreck of MH370.
Now you mught be thinking that sounds incredibly unlikely but that has happened before. In fact during the search for MH370 the search party actually found a ship that had sunk off of the coast of Australia in the 19th century. At the time they probably thought that that ship was lost for good but now we know what happened to it.
Now back to the year 2065, the wreck has been found. Just the position of the wreck can help us to being unravelling the mystery of MH370. When the plane went missing we spent quite a few days looking in the wrong place. Multiple countries sent assets and they scoured the waters off of malaysia. But they then realized that the plane had been communicating with satellites for hours after it had gone missing. Meaning that the plane was airborne for hours and hours. Using that data they were able to deduce that the plane had flown into the southern indian ocean after flying away from. They were able to give an approximate flight path along which the plane flew. Now if the wreck is found away from this projected flight path along the 7th arc it is very likely that someone was actively controlling the plane in its final minutes or hours.
Once the wreck is discovered then the whole political side of things begin. Now if the wreck was found today there would be a ton of interest and governments would be forced to act but what if the wreck is found 60 years from today would there still be public interest in the case of MH 370 60 years from now. So the amount of funding that they would get to study the wreck is a big question mark. Let's assume that the governments of china and malaysia put up enough money to scan the wreck in very high detail along with recovery of a few key parts. This means that the investigators would document the entire debris field with sonar and maybe
I really appreciate that this channel uses a real human voice to narrate and not one of those robotic voice-overs that are so overused and terrible to listen to. Part of listening to a great story is in the way it is narrated. A human voice with real human inflections and dialect. It makes all the difference. So thank you for keeping it real!
Recent breakthroughs in tracking technolgy have sparked renewed hope and confidence that the wreck will be found in the not too distant future. The waters in the likely location are deep and recovery in itself would be a challange, but as noted in the video, there is still sufficient public interest to suggest that funding would be made available. So yeah, we can all still hold on to hope that the biggest aviation mystery in modern history may yet be solved.
Your style wasn't as much speculation as an informed discussion of possibilities. I like discussion of facts and how they can be interpreted.
Great change of pace. Please do more of these along with the "known" accident reports. May the grieving ones of the victims come to and continue in a kind of peace. And may the wreckage be found soon.
I know the answer.
This was really interesting. I never thought of mapping being a possible source of finding the wreckage.
The photos of those plane pieces covered with shellfish send shivers down my spine. I really hope the wreck is found, even if only to give the families and friends of those killed at least some closure. I don't know if we will even know what happened. Maybe by the time the wreck is found, the technological progress will provide the investigations with better tools. Maybe some technology developed after that will prove helpful. There were many decades old cold criminal cases that were solved using new technologies. Then again, way more cases have remained unsolved, MH370 might share this fate
As a professional oceanographer in this exact subject, I have found numerous aircraft at sea (and well over a hundred shipwrecks). It is incredibly difficult. We work with the best available sonars and systems commercially available. I was asked to be involved with the MH370 search but I declined due to unavailability. When an aircraft is reduced to pieces the size of a cafeteria tray and smaller and distributed over a mile in thousands of feet of water, it is incredibly difficult to identify. A high-energy impact on the water turns aluminum basically into bits of putty. The small washed-up pieces do not support controlled ditching. It suggests high angle, high energy impact, or at least mid-angle like fuel starvation followed by a stall, possible spin, and impact. Even with seabed video at the site you may recognize electronic components, wires, bits of unrecognizable aluminum and other materials, and perhaps wheel components. Bits that float will be found perhaps hundreds or even thousands of miles away or centered over the wreck. If you are quick and accurate on the site, the fuel slick is a great clue. Not an option here.
Mh370 really touched my heart. I had flown back from Malaysia to Sydney on Malaysian Airlines just the day before this happened. It freaked me out so bad I was glued to the news channels and youtube. When they started the Australian search I was hoping they would find it but I remember seing how rough that part of the ocean is and how deep it is. After the plane went missing, when I ever went to Malaysia again I flew air Asia instead. Gosh I pray they find the plane one day. It's gonna go down in the history books exactly like titanic. Something else I'm obsessed with. Great video 😁
This was a great video. It adds something that I haven't seen in any other coverage of the disappearance, most of which just presents the known information about last whereabouts and search areas. More similar videos, as well as the usual crash investigation content would be welcomed by me.
We took the rebadged MH371 night flight from KUL to PEK just a week after 370 was lost. To say we were a little nervous, especially with our very young children with us, is an understatement.
I think high chances that data in the black boxes could still be read. Although not designed for long lasting, it should only refer to reliability (99.99%+) and be read easily. Give an example, VHS tapes are said to be good for just a few years. However, even for this consumer grade product, I have at home lots of 30+ year VHS tapes that are still playable in pretty good condition.
In reading comments I am struck by how “positive” one person is of this and how “certain” another is of that.
I think the more knowledge people have about the size of the Indian ocean, the more we will realize that the chances of finding 370 are slim to none. Many miles deep, and thousands of miles wide, you would have better luck finding a golf ball in the Mojave desert. Captain Shah knew exactly what he was doing, he depressurized the plane, put everyone to sleep, including himself, and with the coordinates programmed in the system, it flew on auto pilot till it ran out of fuel literally in the middle of nowhere!! Captain Shah intended for it to never be found, and I believe he succeeded!!!
Hey great video, I’ve been following you since the beginning of your channel, its mind blowing how far you’ve come and just how much you have improved. Please continue making great videos
Hope that if it's found it will give some level of closure for those who are affected, also hope the cause of the incident can be found out too
To me, this video-which I enjoyed-is less about MH370 per se, and more about the challenges these kinds of investigations face generally, what techniques they might be able to use, the effects of the passage of time on physical evidence, not to mention on the public’s interest, etc.
I'm getting more pessimistic now. Northwest 2501 disappeared more than 70 years ago over Lake Michigan (much more confined than Indian Ocean and shallower), and we still could not find it.
We already know quite a bit about MH370 from the various investigations, including the discovery/analysis of the flotsam referred to in this video. It seems from the condition of the flaperon that in its last moments MH370 made a controlled water landing, with the flaps extended. But there are huge gaps in our knowledge that cannot be filled without finding the wreck.
When Air crashes are left unsolved I lose sleep for nights thinking about the pilots and the plane. I believe you shall make a video about 1990 (11 September) Faucett B727 disappearance. It is similar to the disappearance of Mh370 but much more confusing, couldn't find much about the crash on the internet nor found a report so I am asking you for help. Anyways lovely video, your fan 😉