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We Can Prevent Another MH370
There is no good reason why tragic mysteries such as Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, Air France Flight 447 and EgyptAir Flight 990 should occur. We have the technology now to prevent or immediately track down and learn the cause of such disasters. (www.aviationtoday.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
If MH370 had crashed, it would have been found. When things like that happen, it's for a reason. – Has MH17 been resolved to everybody's satisfaction? No...why not? We all know why not.
I have been thinking for some time, that instead if, or in addition to a black box, passenger aircraft have a transmitter that sends data to a computer on the ground some where.
That would mean the entire flight is recorded, not just the last 20 minutes.
The engineering requirements shouldn’t be hard to overcome, and the weight penalty shouldn’t be too severe.
That would mean the entire flight is recorded, not just the last 20 minutes.
The engineering requirements shouldn’t be hard to overcome, and the weight penalty shouldn’t be too severe.
Are you being funny? Such a thing exists, even on MH370.
I’m sure whatever device the engineers come up with will be very expensive.
You can’t put a price on ones life. This should have been done decades ago.
Now it’s time to get it done.
You can’t put a price on ones life. This should have been done decades ago.
Now it’s time to get it done.
You must put a price on peoples' lives, otherwise nothing would ever be created. Look at cars. If we adopted the attitude that peoples' lives are so priceless that we must spend whatever money necessary to keep ANYONE from dying, then we would not be able to produce cars at any cost. However, we do a cost/benefit analysis, and as a society, accept the tens of thousands of highway deaths each year because we don't want to spend more on the problem than we have already.
Um. I can put a price on someones life. Many countries with socialized medical care are more than willing to put a price (RVU) on a persons life as pertaining to the quantity and quality of care. Anyone in the United States who see's the budgets knows that we put a value on lives of some (politicians) ahead of the plebeians every day.
We all take risks and we weigh out the options. It is factually safer to fly than to drive in the current world. In either case, there is an 'odd' involved. I simply do not see why any carriers (even more so a US carrier) would spend more money on being safer. There simply is no ROI.
Flame away.
We all take risks and we weigh out the options. It is factually safer to fly than to drive in the current world. In either case, there is an 'odd' involved. I simply do not see why any carriers (even more so a US carrier) would spend more money on being safer. There simply is no ROI.
Flame away.
It would not take much to add a much more powerful underwater locator beacon, kept charged by the plane and armored to 20K+ depth. One with enough battery to last months, and a signal which could be picked up for many miles. Just scale up the beacons on the FDR's and attach them to the air-frame. True it would not track the flight, but the signal would be there and with a much larger radius then the little pingers on the FDR and CVR. No new tech, a small engineering program, and a very low cost retrofit to the aircraft.