MH370 hunt goes on after Australia signals great confidence - Digital Journal
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The MH370 search is a masterclass in Bayesian reasoning under uncertainty — where shrinking battery windows force searchers to update probability maps with almost no hard evidence.
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Theory Briefing
- Flight MH370 vanished March 8, and its black-box beacons only last ~30 days, creating a brutal search deadline rooted in signal-decay physics.
- Australia's 'great confidence' in the search zone illustrates Bayesian updating — prior flight-path data narrowing a vast ocean into one high-probability corridor.
- With no wreckage found, the hunt exemplifies the Absence of Evidence problem: silence from the beacons neither confirms nor rules out any crash theory.