missing plane

[tirediron]

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

How good is GPS if you're not within a satellite's view?

I see your point, and it's a good one, but GPS requires additional battery use, which is additional weight, not to mention additional FAA Certification on the addition of GPS on a black box. It's just not necessary in most aviation accidents.

And of course, let's not forget that GPS is a passive/receive-only system. A GPS receiver in the FDR would do exactly NOTHING to help anyone locate it.

 

[astroNikon]

remember, an oceans waves are NOT flat. So trying to see something floating on the surface becomes much less perceptable on a ship. Thus the use of aircraft, which have to fly .. what was it .. 1200 miles one way to get to the location .. so a 2400 round trip and that excludes searching.

they need a couple aircraft carriers out there, then they could also launch drones.

 

[JacaRanda]

then they could also launch drones.

But but we (US) are the only ones that have drones and I would rather have them spying on me than trying to find a needle in a needle.

 

[bribrius]

it was just a the news. They found it. Someone's garage in new jersey.

 

[BrickHouse]

it was just a the news. They found it. Someone's garage in new jersey.

Like Runnah said, always the last place!

 

[astroNikon]

They moved the search area again, based on new calculations .. and are finding things from the air
Military finds objects in Indian Ocean in search for Malaysia plane | The Detroit News

A number of the objects spotted Friday were white or light in color, and two were blue/gray and rectangular, AMSA said, adding that the finds needed to be confirmed by ship.Young said the hundreds of floating objects detected over the last week by satellites in the former search area, previously considered possible wreckage, “may or may not actually be objects.”
“In regards to the old areas, we have not seen any debris and I would not wish to classify any of the satellite imagery as debris, nor would I want to classify any of the few visual sightings that we made as debris. That’s just not justifiable from what we have seen,” he said.


From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140328/NATION/303280043#ixzz2xHZ3FR1X

 

[table1349]

Pssst.....I have it from a reliable source that this plane was actually carrying the body of Jimmy Hoffa, and the bodies of the shooters on the grassy knoll. The plane was "lost" in an unknown location to hide the evidence of these conspiracies.

 

[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.

They were just spotted getting off of the plane

 

[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.

They were just spotted getting off of the plane

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The four stripes running the length of the plane is a sign to the Illuminati.

A group of anti Illuminati are still trying to de-bunk the code

 

[astroNikon]

I don't really think it's a joking matter ... but to each their own

 

[dxqcanada2]

you guys are killing my faith in the human species and its tech. This is like when the power goes out and i mysteriously lose the internet...

It is not mandatory to have always-on systems on commercial airplanes that will continuously report position/status to anybody and a global service to record it. The industry and the industry regulators probably look at this vs. it's values and cost ... and concluded that this is not economically beneficial to increase safety.

 

[IronMaskDuval]

you guys are killing my faith in the human species and its tech. This is like when the power goes out and i mysteriously lose the internet...

It is not mandatory to have always-on systems on commercial airplanes that will continuously report position/status to anybody and a global service to record it. The industry and the industry regulators probably look at this vs. it's values and cost ... and concluded that this is not economically beneficial to increase safety.

Well, I don't think there's much to safety when the plane is already down, and if it was diverted, no one would have noticed anyway. The Thai saw the plane on their radar but didn't think of anything.

 

[bribrius]

they could just forget about it and stop looking for it. i cant imagine they are going to find enough in tact to be much good at this point. Even if they figure out what happened (unlikely), well doesn't matter much now anyway does it?

 

[IronMaskDuval]

they could just forget about it and stop looking for it. i cant imagine they are going to find enough in tact to be much good at this point. Even if they figure out what happened (unlikely), well doesn't matter much now anyway does it?

Maybe? It's the difference between a justified lawsuit and not.

 

[pgriz]

Probably the main reason to keep looking for it is to determine what happened. It won't be good for the world if planes just started to veer of course and "disappear". There are many scenarios, and at this point none are particularly obvious as "the" answer as to why things happened. So far, it appears that the transponders and the automatic reporting system were deliberately turned off prior to the last verbal communication. At the exact point of handover of air traffic control (between the Malaysian and Vietnamese control centers) the plane veered off course. The course appears to have been programmed in, which requires pilot, or at least a knowledgeable person to understands how to reset the autopilot. The direction taken appears to have been pretty direct and at a constant altitude. The target appears to have been one of the most isolated places on Earth, namely the southern Indian Ocean. The suspects in the case, the pilot and co-pilot have been investigated, and other than some deleted files that were found on the pilot's home simulator, nothing pointed to links to extremism. Most of the passengers' backgrounds were checked, and pretty much all appear to be ordinary folk. So we have the death of 239 people in unexplained circumstances - not something we can ignore or dismiss. All of these people had families, friends and played roles in society - and now they are "disappeared". That is the tragedy - and the reason why efforts continue to be made. One may question why "this" group of deceased is more in the awareness of the world compared to the death of at least 251 refugees that were crossing Lake Albert (between DR Congo and Uganda). Probably because we can't claim direct experience with overloaded boats fleeing armed conflict, but we can imagine being on a plane and personifying the unexpected terror of learning that your destination is death. We need to pray for both groups - we are all part of the web of humanity. I would like to imagine that my life is at least partly under my control, and that my family will escape the seemingly random acts of violence and misfortune that we read about. However, that could be a self-serving illusion. Still I grieve for the lives lost.