| ▲ | literalAardvark 2 hours ago |
| MH370 crashed in the Pacific. Look at the globe some day from that angle and compare it to the Mediterranean. |
|
| ▲ | contingencies 2 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Err, no. The consensus and available evidence including washed up components seems to be that it crashed in the Indian Ocean, that's the (also vast) space between ~Australia and ~Africa, bounded in the north by Indonesia, the Indian subcontinent, and Arabia. It crashed somewhere in the eastern portion, not far from Indonesia and Australia. Currents then took parts as far as the Maldives/Sri Lanka, IIRC. The Pacific is the other (eastern) side of Australia, which stretches from the Aussie-Kiwi approach to the South Pole to Alaska, and Vladivostok to Tierra del Fuego. |
| |
| ▲ | kergonath an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | > Currents then took parts as far as the Maldives/Sri Lanka, IIRC Some bits ended up on a beach of the Réunion island, closer to Madagascar than Sri Lanka. I am not disagreeing, it’s just that the whole story is fascinating. It’s easy to think "well, it just crashed into the sea so of course some bits would show up on a beach" until you look at the Indian Ocean with a proper projection and figure the scale. | | |
| ▲ | contingencies an hour ago | parent [-] | | Floating is a powerful physical configuration! You get currents plus windspeed. If you're in to this sort of thing, I can recommend The Seacraft of Prehistory, We: The Navigators, and Archaeology of the Boat approximately in that order. |
| |
| ▲ | stavros 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Are you making the same point as the person you said "err, no" to, or are you correcting the inconsequential details while not addressing their main point? | | |
| ▲ | loeg 24 minutes ago | parent [-] | | No. literalAardvark's main statement, "[It] crashed in the Pacific," was incorrect. contingencies's comment corrected that. |
|
|
