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| A Model of the Abyss Drone |
Now that the official proclamation has been made by Malaysia,the recovery stage will begin.
Drone technology with the capability of scouring ocean beds up to depths of 6 kilometers will be utilised to find the wreckage of MH370.
Only three of these submersible drones called the Abysses are manufactured to date and one will be employed to do this onerous tasks of recovery as the sea is an 'assorted dustbins of sort'.
In the event that the debris is found particularly the black box, then the mystery of the fatal flight will likely be known. Otherwise the world will continue with its speculation and conspiracy theories.
Alain Bouilard, the man who led the probe into the 2009 Air France probe, has cautioned not to take the tragic pronouncement of the fate of MH370 at face value as he feels that, at this stage, it has not been fully conclusive.
He told the
Daily Telegraph that for him, all those veritable wooden crates and fragments on beaches may not hold the answer at all. To be conclusive, all debris must be identified, examined and evaluated.
The main issue is to use the latest technology available to pick up signals from the black box. This is critically vital as the data within it will contain two hours of cockpit conversation and a wealth of flight parameters. Without these,no one will ever know what transpired that led to the disappearance of flight MH370.
While the seabed probe was done 'without much problems' in the Atlantic for the Air France crash, the Indian Ocean is considered a 'rogue ocean' that ships avoid because of its unfriendly nature--strong currents,fierce winds, violent storms and 10-meter waves and heavy weather.
The task even using the abyss will be a challenging one.
