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An Australian security expert believes that if the two objects spotted today by the satellite off the coast of Perth are confirmed as belonging to the missing MH370 jetliner, then its location would cancel out any notion of a technical error. MailOnline reported that Neil Fergus, the director of Intelligence for Sydney's 2000 Olympics, told Australia's Channel 9 that a technical malfunction on the wide-body aircraft simply meant that the plane could not have flown all the way to where the debris was spotted. This would mean that only human involvement, either by passengers or crew, could have led the plane to Australian waters, Fergus was quoted as saying. "If this debris does turn out to be the missing MH370 then, given its location, we can definitely rule out technical malfunction,’ he said. "There is no way with (some) sort of technical calamity or fire that it could have travelled to where it appears to be. It would in the first instance confirm human intervention." Fergus also said in the interview that the Australian government would now direct its focus on finding the plane's black box, which would reveal what happened to the Malaysia Airlines flight. ABC News reported yesterday that the search for the most important piece of aviation technology on board the MH370 is a race against time as it is only powered for 30 days. The search has entered day 13, meaning search teams have only 17 more days to locate the black box. "The Orion will do a low-vis check that will be much clearer of course than the resolution from the satellite," Fergus told Channel 9. "And then they will drop sonar buoys, which have a particular relevance because black box recorders have a battery life of around 30 days... and it should pick up any emission coming from there. "It will confirm the location of the black box which is the key to unravelling this horrible mystery." The search for the Malaysian jet is the longest in modern passenger-airline history. The previous record was the 10-day search for a Boeing 737-400 operated by Indonesia’s PT Adam Skyconnection Airlines, which went missing off the coast of that country’s Sulawesi island January 1, 2007. – March 20, 2014. TMI
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