[Rodney Dangerfield]

Shouldn’t these calls be going to voice mail?

Maybe the plane went down in the jungles of Viet Nam and there are random, scattered phones ringing until their batteries fail.

[dogcaller]

Speaking of communications...what is the reason that a 50 million dollar aircraft would not have a tamper-proof GPS
device that pings the satellite every few seconds on transocean flights? All I’ve heard of is talk about the limitations of surface radar due to earth curvature. Anyone have any insight?

[bkepley]

Shouldn’t these calls be going to voice mail? Maybe the plane went down in the jungles of Viet Nam and there are random, scattered phones ringing until their batteries fail.

If the phones are not answered they will go to voice mail too, also if the phones can actually reach a cell tower they would be easy to locate from the cell tower information.