I've heard that story before.
Posted on 03/25/2014 8:43:24 PM PDT by Praxeologue
There has been speculation about this for the past week. The SOSUS system has been largely declassified and its capabilities reduced since the end of the cold war. Why would the U.S. not have announced it if it had detected a water crash?
Spending the money to find the plane is worth it if it can remove the possibility of any continuing terrorist threat relating to the plane.
Interesting tidbit in all of this. There were 154 Chinese on board. The number 154 is an extremely unlucky number in Chinese culture.
Live streaming block box data? Why not live streaming audio and video too.
I've always wondered why every 711 in the country has video but they always have to resort to a black box what happened to a plane during a crash.
Think of it as national R&D. It will have ancillary benefits that will advance our technological capabilities.
I've heard that story before.
I miss the jars of Tang. Could anyone stomach the non orange flavors of it, though? I tried grape when a kid thinking it would be neat. Yuck.
FYI
But orange Tang made the neatest cake frosting. A cup of it in place of the powdered sugar in a normal cake butter frosting recipe and it was in-your-face orange. All the food I could scarf down when a kid and it didn’t add a pound. Now I must diet, diet, diet to keep fitting in my pants.
“The plane’s two black boxes are key to solving the mystery of why the plane veered so far off course and its final fate,...”
I doubt much will be learned from the black box.
Narcissistic hegomaniac control freaks like the pilot of this aircraft, won’t leave a recorded voice to explain why he did it. He did not say much while the plane was still up in the air, and I’m sure the coward did not leave a recording.
We’ll find the black boxes just as soon as NSA, or whoever, finishes constructing & planting them, and not a minute sooner.
I hate it when people start these kinds of stories. It is not on a runway in Pakistan, it is in a hanger in Pakistan.
Was that the one that blew up when they tried to nuke Hawaii?
The black boxes won’t tell us much, but we’ll end up knowing a lot more about deepwater salvage techniques.
A possible aircraft fire protection bottle washed up in the Maldives.
Good one!
>> the Malaysia Airlines jet that crashed into the southern Indian Ocean
Is that a fact up to this point?
There are the cockpit voice recorder (CVR), which records the last two hours' worth of audio, and the flight data recorder (FDR), which records a whole bunch of stuff about the airplane for the duration of the flight.
Unfortunately, the FDR will tell us what happened, but the CVR will likely be unable to tell us why.
The CVR will have almost two hours' worth of engine noise, followed by some minutes of relative quiet, followed by a final SPLASH! The critical, interesting words will have been overwritten and lost to history!
It seems to me likely that the plane was hijacked. Why else to turn off the transponder at such a vulnerable point? The probable intent was to fly it to some airfield in the 'stans, followed by who knows what fate for the passengers.
But then there was a fight to retake control, which somehow resulted in incapacitating all aboard who could have flown the plane or radioed for help.
What resulted was a modified Payne Stewart scenario: fly on autopilot until the fuel runs out, then go in!
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