WHY WE ARE STILL NOT ABLE TO FIND FLIGHT MH370

The GPS technology can even detect 'a fallen leaf'. Why we are not able to locate the debris of flight MH370? Let us try to find the answers.

On 8 March 2014, Malaysian airlines flight MH370 vanished EnRoute from Kolalumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board. At the time of writing (6 years of after the incident), still there is no sign of the plane.

PROBLEMS IN SEARCHING:
1. The flight communications equipment was turned off before disappearance.
2. The combination of the aircrafts flight speed and known distance suggests that it might have crashed into the ocean somewhere about 1600 miles to the west of Perth, Australia. It is about as far from populated land as it is possible to get which makes the search site difficult to get to.
3. It is very deep - 3890 meters-about half the height of mount Everest.
4. The search area is more than 23000 square miles wide.
5. Total darkness underwater. The pressure is about 500 atmospheres. That is 500 times normal pressure.
6. It is not even certain that the plane is in the search area.

To understand and visualize, we will shrink everything down. Let us scale down everything by the factor 2500. Then the search area will be the size of football field. The waters will be 1.5m deep. The plane will be 2.5m long and we will be 0.064cm tall.

    It is like searching well-known needle in the hay stock, if the needle is really lost there.
    The disappearance of MH370 has been described as 'one of the biggest mysteries in Modern aviation history".
     The Malaysian government has officially declared the disappearance of the aircraft an accident.

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