Blog Post #1

Blog Post #1

The Malaysian Flight 370 disappeared on March 8th. One important fact about the situation is that the flight had 2 aboard passengers who had false passports, saying they wanted to escape their country. Another fact was that no calls were received from Flight 370 because their altitude was over average, and that they weren’t flying near cell towers. The plane did have airplane phones, but there was still no communication whatsoever from the flight. Finally, the flight’s last location tracked was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, so somewhere around there did the plane loss communication.

The Bluefin-21 will be used to search the depths of the ocean for Malaysian Flight 370, where it may take some time if the submarine’s unlucky. It will find the airplane by being sent down 2.8 miles of water, 150 feet above the ocean floor, with side-scanning sonar arrays to monitor and sign of the airplane. When any data is collected, the sub. will yield a high resolution, 3-D map of the seafloor, that so the search team and investigators learn the new information. Another interesting fact about the Bluefin-21 is that it has a 24-hour cycle, 4 for surfacing the water and lowering into it, 4 for transferring data and readying its next trip, and 16 for the actual search under the sea.

It is important to find the airplane because with any scavenged part, scientists and searchers might be able to learn why it even went down, due to either sabotage, passing the Bermuda Triangle, anything. To build on this idea, if the submarine found a loose part of the wheel that should be connected to the wheel, it could prove that the inability to control the plane took it down into the depths of the ocean. Although, since the plane did have control some part of flight, it would bizarre for the one part of the plane to loosen. In addition, finding many family members in Malaysian Flight 370 may relieve their family on land, assuring them that they at least know where the loved ones or friends are. Besides that, there is no other use of finding the plane because what are they gonna do with the retrieved part, but finding it will help learn about the whole mystery of it landing in the water.