How the MH370 Flaperon Floated
October 17, 2015 at 9:50 pm
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2015 at 9:53 pm by mralstoner.)
Jeff Wise finds a strange paradox about the MH370 wing debris:
http://jeffwise.net/2015/10/09/the-flape...on-riddle/
The barnacle coverage on the flaperon shows no clear water line (barnacles only grow a safe distance below the water line), suggesting that the flaperon was fully submerged (for approximately 4 months).
But paradoxically the flaperon floated for thousands of kilometres from the presumed crash site. It's "physically impossible" to both float and be fully submerged at the same time.
How could this be? Wise can't offer any good explanation.
So, maybe it didn't float at all, but was sitting in the perp's laboratory for 4 months, and then dumped off the side of a container ship to look like fake wreckage.
Also, there's a mysterious clear patch on the flaperon, which is not eroded like other areas. Maybe this is where the flaperon was tethered to something else.
http://jeffwise.net/2015/10/09/the-flape...on-riddle/
The barnacle coverage on the flaperon shows no clear water line (barnacles only grow a safe distance below the water line), suggesting that the flaperon was fully submerged (for approximately 4 months).
But paradoxically the flaperon floated for thousands of kilometres from the presumed crash site. It's "physically impossible" to both float and be fully submerged at the same time.
How could this be? Wise can't offer any good explanation.
So, maybe it didn't float at all, but was sitting in the perp's laboratory for 4 months, and then dumped off the side of a container ship to look like fake wreckage.
Also, there's a mysterious clear patch on the flaperon, which is not eroded like other areas. Maybe this is where the flaperon was tethered to something else.
