The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery 461
First time accepted submitter evidencebase writes "How can an airliner simply disappear, leaving no clues? And why do we have to wait until the black boxes are found to learn what happened to Flight MH370? As this article explains, there's no good reason that flight data needs to go down with the plane, because the technology to stream it to ground, from the moment things start to go wrong, is already on the market. It can be fitted to a commercial airliner for less than $100,000. But the industry has decided that it's not worth the expense. Tell that the the families of passengers on Flight MH370."
Re:Lat / Long? (Score:4, Funny)
Something like that already exists [wikipedia.org].
Re:snark (Score:0, Funny)
You obviously don't know about the concept of closure, or care enough about someone else to care about it.
Ok Mr. Sensitive, if the families really need closure, just tell them the plane landed safely and all the passengers are now staying at Amelia Earhart's house.
Just 100K? don't believe it. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:not worth it (Score:3, Funny)
Seems the 9/11 planes' were lost too.
Damnit. Just think, if we would have recovered that equipment then we could have figured out why the planes crashed.
Re:Does it really cost $100k? (Score:5, Funny)
we're missing the obvious solution to the communication problem. why not make it illegal for planes to fly over water? then they'll always be in contact with land. sometimes the problem is right in front of you!
Re:Does it really cost $100k? (Score:5, Funny)
Can't we just get the copilot to throw the black box out of the window before they hit the sea?
Much cheaper...