missing plane

[tirediron]

Unless you have actually been involved in a blue-water SAR mission it's almost impossible to appreciate the scope of the operation. The 'plane, if it went down over water might leave a debris field of relatively small items (<10m2) which might cover at most a square mile or two. That would very quickly dissapate as the ocean currents moved things about and the pieces became just more floating debris amongst the millions of items already out there (there's a LOT of s**t floating on the ocean's surface), and contrary to what you might read in Tom Clancy novels, there aren't a whole bunch of satellites up there that can zoom in and distinguish between part of an airliner's wing and oil drum that washed overboard from a merchant vessel. IMO, NOT surprising in the least.

 

[Newtricks]

is anyone else wondering why with five governments involved and a billion dollars in tech and equipment they couldn't find the plane...

They just need to look on the work bench.

 

[TWright33]

Guys I think we all know Jay Z and his Illuminati cronies are in on this.

Didn't you see his sign language warning about it in Beyonce's music videos?

Get with the program guys. Geeze.

 

[Steve5D]

Most people don't understand just how incredibly big an ocean is.

71% of the earth's surface is water...

 

[Newtricks]

Unless you have actually been involved in a blue-water SAR mission...

Searching thousands of square miles of open ocean is not as easy as it might seem. I spent 9 months in the Persian Gulf in the 1980's, there's more water out there than you would believe.

 

[skieur]

This may be a dumb question but why do they NOT have a GPS in the black box?

 

[astroNikon]

Not to rehash the news
But if the plane is in the indian ocean then it is under the surface, thousands of feet under the surface.
That makes it difficult to "visually" see it as you can't.

thus they look for debris to identify a location
debris can get water logged and sink
so something that could be there one block of hours , could be gone the next
and satellite images could also be of large white caps waves

plus, if you have been listening to the news, they have bad weather out there
and the satellite imagery also have clouds that they have to decipher from


imagine if I took your camera and put it in a field somewhere in texas.
Then it was up to you to find it based on that information.

 

[KmH]

but.. but... what about all the technology.

Most ordinary people have no idea what the technologies involved can and can't do.

It's not a TV show, and what they have accomplished so far with the technologies available is actually unprecedented, and quite remarkable.

 

[tirediron]

This may be a dumb question but why do they NOT have a GPS in the black box?

Probably because it doesn't really care where it is.

 

[Newtricks]

This may be a dumb question but why do they NOT have a GPS in the black box?

GPS or not, once it's been turned off... it doesn't matter. This year I got a smartphone and the first thing I did was turn off GPS, I do not want to be tracked... for any reason!

 

[manicmike]

Kind of reminds me of Lost.

 

[Newtricks]

Bottom-line... we may never know what happened to that plane or why, I believe that if an organization was behind the highjacking, we would have heard from them. For all we know, they are sitting in Africa laughing.

 

[Designer]

This may be a dumb question but why do they NOT have a GPS in the black box?

Yeah, like the "find my phone" app.

"Find my black box" Ta-Da!

 

[Newtricks]

This may be a dumb question but why do they NOT have a GPS in the black box?

Well for one... GPS is what we have in the USA, in other countries they have and call tracking systems by other names, there is not a universal system in place. As a whole, those of us on earth are not ready to play together, work together or be together.

 

[IronMaskDuval]

If only they tied a bobbing fishing float on it.