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MH370 DOI & Hoodlum update - 29/07/16

From the latest by NewsCorp's Robin Ironside (via news.com.au), it would appear that ATSB CC Greg Hood is indeed attempting to taking control of the MH370 narrative - good luck with that Hoody...

 It would also seem that the selfie & tweep fiend DDD Darren is back - God help us! :  

Wing part may hold crucial clues as to MH370’s final moment
July 29, 2016 6:50pm

&..from Live Science online:

Missing Flight MH370: Ocean Currents Point to New Search Spot
By Charitha Pattiaratchi, University of Western Australia, and Sarath Wijeratne, University of Western Australia | July 28, 2016 08:22am ET




Missing flight MH370 is somewhere out in the ocean. But where is the best place to search in the Indian Ocean?
Credit: Iakov Kalinin / Shutterstock.com

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is one of the greatest mysteries in aviation. Costing A$180 million, the search of the seabed to locate the crash site is also one of the most expensive.

But after almost 28 months since its disappearance, the exact crash location has still not been found.

The Australian government, with help from experts from Malaysia and China, has been coordinating the search effort over a 120,000 square kilometre area of the Indian Ocean, off Western Australia.

With just 10,000 square kilometres still to be searched, senior ministers from the three countries met earlier this month to consider what to do if they find nothing.

The current plan is to suspend the search – not abandon it – in case any “credible new information” should emerge that could be used to identify the specific location of the aircraft...

..Charitha Pattiaratchi, Professor of Coastal Oceanography, University of Western Australia and Sarath Wijeratne, Research Assistant Professor, UWA Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

Further AuntyPru DOI Update: 30/07/16

First yesterday's presser from miniscule DDDD (NFI) Chester...

Latest piece likely from missing MH370
Media Release
DC081/2016
29 July 2016


Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester said today it is highly likely that the latest piece of debris being analysed by Australian Transport and Safety Bureau (ATSB) is from missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.

“The wing part was found in Tanzania and transported to Australia for analysis by ATSB,” Mr Chester said.

“The experts will continue to analyse this piece to assess what information can be determined from it.”

Previously one piece of debris has been confirmed as coming from MH370 and four further items were determined to be almost certainly from the missing aircraft.

The debris pieces were located in areas consistent with drift modelling performed by Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and affirms the focus of search efforts in the southern Indian Ocean.

Mr Chester said the underwater search was continuing around 2600kms west of Perth. Subject to weather conditions, the targeted 120,000 square kilometre search in water up to six kilometres deep is expected to be finalised by December.

“We remain hopeful that the aircraft will be located in the remaining search area,” Mr Chester said.

“As agreed by Ministers from Malaysia and the People's Republic of China and Australia at the tripartite meeting on 22 July 2016, in the event that the aircraft is not located in the current area, the search for MH370 will be suspended on the completion of the 120,000 square kilometre high priority search area unless credible new evidence about the specific location of the aircraft emerges.”

The latest piece of debris being examined at the Australian Transport and Safety Bureau.

 
Next a basic short summary, courtesy the Oz, of the above & confirmation that the JACC were always aware that Captain Z's flight sim had a flight route planned near to the current SIO priority search area: 

Malaysian Airlines MH370 captain’s simulator course confirmed

• Kylar Loussikian
  
• The Australian
  
• 12:00AM July 30, 2016
  

Journalist
Sydney
@kloussikian
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Authorities co-ordinating the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 have confirmed that the pilot’s home simulator had been used to plot a course to the southern Indian Ocean.

It is the first time that the Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre has revealed information about Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s simulator, after The Australian published an article in which ­former senior pilot Byron Bailey suggested it showed the disaster was a deliberate murder/suicide.

Malaysian authorities denied this was the case, while the Aust­ralian Transport Safety Bureau, said in a statement: “The inform­ation shows only the possibility of planning ... it does not reveal what happened on the night of the aircraft’s disappearance, nor where the aircraft is located.”

But the centre, in an email, said that “the MH370 captain’s flight simulator showed someone had plotted a course to the southern Indian Ocean”.

It comes as Transport Minister Darren Chester said the latest piece of debris found, in Tanzania, was “highly likely” to be from the missing flight. He said the underwater search was continuing about 2600km west of Perth.

“We remain hopeful that the aircraft will be located in the ­remaining search area,” he said.

• More: MH370 search a sham?
  

The plane disappeared not long after take-off in March 2014

Finally from this AM's Today Show Blaine Gibson is interviewed..

MTF...P2

Ps For the linked Higgins Weekend Oz MH370 article go to this post : Why Australia needs an MH370 inquiry