More Clues but Still No Answers (Week 3)

Ellis, Ralph, and Ben Brumfield. "Satellite images from France aid in search for 
      missing Malaysian airliner." CNN. N.p., 23 Mar 2014. Web. 23 Mar 2014.

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

The release of an image taken by a French satellite is yet another clue that could help in the discovery of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which has now been missing for over 16 days. This comes after the restriction of the search area to a 60,000 square kilometer region in the southern Indian Ocean, as well as two other satellite images that were released earlier this week by the US and China. However, even with all these clues to where the plane wreckage could be, still nothing has turned up as a result of the search. Besides the vastness of the search area, what makes the search even more difficult is the fact that the believed location of the plane is regarded as one of the most remote areas on Earth, and is approximately four hours from the Australian coastline. This means that search planes would only have about two to three hours of search time over the waters per day. In addition to this, there is a "deadline" for locating the area of the plane's wreckage, as after 30 days, the batteries for the "pingers" in the black boxes which are crucial for figuring out the details in the final hours of the planes flight will die out, which would make the search exponentially more difficult. As the search goes on, more and more people are wondering whether or not flight MH370 will ever be found.