It is ridiculous that an emergency service would actually tweet that a plane had crashed into the sea before even having a look. The merest glance through a half decent pair of binos would have told them it was not a plane and anyway, as it doesn't look as if it would travel at great speed - how come they never saw it until it got to that point? Where did they think it had come from? Didn't the fact that the alleged "coastguard" hadn't actually seen any plane in trouble, heading for the sea, register?



Sorry, but it is only "possibly" of your typical over-excited holidaymaker after a couple of sherbets, the sort of person that sees alien spaceships. It is unacceptable for a coastguard service.

That's so crass, I'm actually lost for words.

I've never seen that one before.

Another one goes down. An Iranian passenger plane with 48 on board crashes shortly after take off from Tehran.



Not a good year so far. Those statisticians who were suggesting the imminent possibility of a zero deaths year look a bit daft now.

are they still searching for the malaysian plane then went down off the coast of Australia? not heard anything for a while.



and what about the black box recovered from the Ukraine crash... did that give anything , guess they know but not giving it out yet

They are indeed searching and are now well on with the laborious mapping process of the area of sea bed of greatest interest.

[urlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-29378953[/url



This sort of thing:





The resolution is far too co to pick up something as small as an aircraft, but the mapping wasn't done for that reason, it was to plot courses to drag the detection equipment, without crashing into obstructions etc. Apparently, before this, we had better maps of Mars than of this area of sea bed, and the mountains on it are said to make the Himalayas "look like foothills" so the scale of the challenge is literally and mind-bogglingly enormous.