Feeding Frenzy

G and I went to a fascinating U3A talk today at Blakeney and as usual walked down to the harbour for a blip. We appeared to arrive at rush hour at the duck pond, probably feeding time! It was lovely and sunny albeit bitter in the cold wind.

The talk was on the disappearance of MH370 in 2014. The speaker gave us fascinating facts about how aircraft communicate actively and passively, how they're tracked by multiple sources and how some of these controls can be turned off / evaded by the pilot. They now know in which direction it flew, at what altitude and when the last contact was picked up. They can tell that the cabin would have depressurised for a while due to the high altitude and that it flew low at another point to avoid tracking by radar. The pilot had been depressed and also had a home flight simulator with that flight plan on its hard drive. The black boxes have never been found, but some aircraft parts were washed ashore up to two years later. The full story can only be speculation unless the black boxes are found. A very sad story as 239 passengers and crew died.