To: radu
General aviation planes can buy a box for a few hundred bucks which will transmit position info every minute via the satellite phone network.
One would think airliners would have one.
311 posted on
12/28/2014 3:23:25 AM PST by
SauronOfMordor
(Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
To: SauronOfMordor
Very good point. I do not believe that a plane can just disappear, and that they are without any effective tracking device.
313 posted on
12/28/2014 3:52:22 AM PST by
BlackVeil
('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
To: SauronOfMordor
Perhaps that is what lost contact.
318 posted on
12/28/2014 4:45:22 AM PST by
Vermont Lt
(Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
To: SauronOfMordor
General aviation planes can buy a box for a few hundred bucks which will transmit position info every minute via the satellite phone network.
One would think airliners would have one. It does seem like a good idea to have one of those as backup. I guess they feel all the bells and whistles on the big jets are enough to do the job.
Bigger isn't always better. Sometimes smaller and simpler is.
354 posted on
12/28/2014 1:04:58 PM PST by
radu
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