RAAF pilot, flight lieutenant Russell http://www.kszz.com/this-might-be-the-scariest-trail-in-the-world-but-youll-never-guess-where-it-leads-unbelievable.htmlAdams from 10 Squadron, flies an AP-3C Orion over the Indian Ocean. ( - ADF)
'It's the strongest current in the world down there; it's basically like one big giant pinball machine for debris,' says oceanographer Erik van Sebille about the area off Western Australia where it's thought MH370 went down.
While the Malaysian Government announced it believed flight MH370 crashed into the southern Indian Ocean, the search for evidence continues.
A number of pieces of debris have been spotted from two planes involved in the search operation but it's not yet confirmed that they're sections of the Boeing 777.
Experts have warned that the longer it takes to identify the area where the plane went down the more difficult it will be to recover vital information on the Boeing's black box.
'The longer we wait without having the confirmation that this is indeed the plane, the harder it will get to pinpoint where it hit the water,' Dr van Sebille says.
In December last year Dr van Sebille from the University of New South Wales was part of an expedition that deployed satellite-tracked drifting buoys into the Southern Ocean only 10 metres apart.
Three months later some of the buoys are thousands of kilometres apart.
'And that's also why all this debris that has been spotted by three different satellites is over an area of already a thousand kilometres.'
'That's not completely impossible from the oceanographic point of view.'
'And what that means is that if something like a plane or something like cargo hits the water and gets into many pieces, these pieces they will spread out.'
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