The Vanishing of Flight MH370 by Richard Quest

Author:Richard Quest
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-02-15T21:11:26+00:00

HMS Echo reported that the detections were unlikely due to the depth to the seafloor, surface noise and the equipment utilised.10

It was a polite way of saying that the Haixun 01 ping reports were nonsense and a waste of time. To this day, I have no idea what the Chinese were up to. Some of my colleagues said that they thought the Chinese released the pictures to cover up the real searching equipment they were using, which they didn’t want any prying Western eyes to see. I don’t agree. I think it was either incompetence or something worse: there were journalists on board the Haixun 01, and it’s possible the whole exploit was designed for the Chinese domestic audience. The Chinese knew that the home audience would simply eat up the story. Whatever the truth, it added nothing to the investigation and, in my view, was another example of China hindering the process rather than helping it.

At the same news conference at which Houston discussed Haixun 01’s reports, he revealed that Ocean Shield had, within the last few hours, reported hearing pings. This was far more important than the ham-fisted Chinese attempts. Ocean Shield had fully deployed its TPL eleven thousand feet underwater when it heard a ping. The very way Houston told us about it was like a jolt of electricity:

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