Posted on 03/25/2014 8:43:24 PM PDT by Praxeologue
How about looking on a runway in Pakistan....
There is that.
That would be Islamophobic.
Has it actually been found or is this all still moonshine?
Much like the plane that went down in the Andes...it took months.
Since it will take 23+ months to find if it is in that area, and since some smart people think that it isn't there anyway, what does this exercise look like to you?
I expect CNN to have a countdown clock on the wall as they dramatize the end of the 30 days and the black box's final ping.
A way to waste my tax money. Because, have no fear, the US will pay for the lion’s share of this operation, not Red China, the country most impacted.
I fail to see why the airline industry still uses the so-called black boxes with no other system of problem reporting. There is, in my opinion, absolutely no reason that all of this data cannot be transmitted to many places on the ground in real time. I am not saying that the black boxes be eliminated on the aircraft, just not relied on as the only source of information. This is not beyond our current technological ability.
Also, since a large number of aircraft accidents occur on landings and takeoffs, why don’t airports have video cameras on the runways at all times?
How long will those recorders ping? I thought it was 30 days.
The satellite pings were for the service to which Malaysia Airlines chose not to subscribe. I they had subscribed, substantial data on the plane's performance would have been transmitted every half hour. Since it is satellite bandwidth, this service is expensive. One of the fixes being considered is to make this service mandatory across the industry.
The battery's life is approximately thirty days.
If the plane flew for hours on autopilot and everyone on board was dead, there wouldn’t be any useful information on the black box or cockpit voice recorder anyway, would there? My understanding is the black box only records on a loop that is about 2 hours.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 makes it clear: we need to rethink black boxes | Stephen Trimble
http://gu.com/p/3ndve
From the thread on airliners.net, I gather that there are two recorders. They are on a continuous two hour and two and a half hour loop respectively. In other words, we will never find out what happened in the cockpit during those critical first two hours of the flight.
I would think with all the undersea SOSUS listening gear that we have for Russian subs and others that we would have literally heard it hit the water at high speed.
The Russian K-129 sub that sank around 1968 that the CIA Glomar Explorer ship went to pick up found it because of listening gear way then.
But it was in 1968. Today, commercial airliner "disappears from Radar" ans sheeple believe it.
Boondoggle!
Glomar Explorer is a great story.
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