MH370 Flight Terminus / The Southern Ocean

The Roaring 40s roiled the Southern Ocean's landless expanse between Africa's Cape of Good Hope and the western coast of Australia. While the prevailing westerly winds aided sailing ships on the long voyage to Asia, eddies calve from the predominant current to create the most complicated ocean system on the planet and sadly authorities have reported that the lost Malaysia Air flight ended in tragedy in that gigantic maelstrom.

Wreckage has been spotted by satellite.

All crew and passengers are thought to be lost.

The families were crushed by this news as well as the fact that no one can explain what caused the rapid descent over the Gulf of Siam or why the 777 continued to fly east into the unknown.

According to the UK's TELEGRAPH the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington had drawn up an Airworthiness Directive in November, which was triggered by reports of cracking in the fuselage skin underneath a Boeing aircraft's satellite antennae. The FAA directive told airlines to look out for corrosion under the fuselage skin, which could lead to a situation where the fuselage was compromised leading to possible rapid decompression as well as the plane breaking up.

The cost for this check-up was approximately $3100 US.

None were done by Malaysia Air.

Cabin decompression from structural flaws in the fuselage seem to be the likely cause. although Boeing has rejected this theory without further comment.

Get ready for their accusations of 'pilot error'.

As always for corporate entities it's easiest to blame someone who is dead.

MH370 Malaysia

Two weeks ago Malaysia Air flight MH370 disappeared from radar between Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

The news media first suspected a crash and an intense search was conducted in the Gulf of Siam without finding any debris.

Family and friends of the 293 passengers and crew wanted answers.

Malaysian authorities had none.

Several days passed before information was released that the Boeing 777 had turned off-course to fly west over Penang into the Indian Ocean. The media focused on a possible hijacking by ethnic Uighurs from western China and then shifted to the pilots perhaps belong to an Islamic plot. An ex-pilot offered a reasonable theory that an electrical fire had erupted in the plane and the pilots had attempted a landing on Langewe Island off the Malaysia Peninsula.

Still no answers.

Still no wreckage.

Yesterday a satellite spotted several lengthy objects floating deep into the Southern Ocean to the west of Australia. The debris lays beyond the range of a 777 and the currents of the Roaring 40s flow north rather than south, however military aircraft have been dispatched to the location and ships are being diverted to conduct a search for wreckage.

According to Bloomberg.com 83 planes have vanished since 1948.

Wreckage from Air France Flight 477 was found in the South Atlantic after five days. Another two years were spent retrieving the black box from the depths of the sea. The treacherous waters of the Roaring 40s will not easily yield its secrets, but I have a theory, that excludes the plane's crashing into the ocean.

The only secure airbase in the Indian Ocean is situated on Diego Garcia, which is a joint UK-USA military base. There are no civilians on the atoll and landing simulations for Diego Garcia were found on the computer of MH370's pilot. Reports of a low-flying passenger plane have come from the Maldives and even ABC news has blogged the possibility of the remote island as a final destination for the 777.

Few aircraft have disapperared so thouroughly as this one and only two entities on this planet have that power.

Nature and the USA.

I'm not betting on either until the new search turns up nothing.

I like sure things.