Search Area For MH370 Is A Living Beast. Gets Bigger Every Passing Day.
Australians satellites spotted a floating object in the sea on 19th March 2014. The authorities believe it could be a piece of debris from the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. The object is 24 metres long and relative wide and other smaller objects have been detected around. But, the problem is floating objects in the sea dont stay in same spot after hours.
From our experience at seas, on average weather conditions a floating debris could travel upto 230km a day. Current, waves and wind determine direction. We have experienced, wind is stronger against other forces for objects like floating boats that merely sits on the water with most of the parts above surface. Looking at the object spotted by Australians the current and waves would definitely affect stronger than wind. If all the 3 forces are on one direction the speed of travel could go upto 5 times high, effects of weather conditions are even stronger. In some rare cases we have experienced the floating object stays in same area when 3 forces are balanced to each other, this also depends the type of object as it determines how much wind it could catch, but would not last for days as natural forces always change direction and strength. Hence, its virtually impossible to find a floating object in the sea after days, unless search cover a huge area.
This map shows how long the spotted debris would likely travel within the 3 days, under normal weather conditions. It could be anywhere within the 1000 square kilometers.