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I'm losing confidence that they are ever going to find the black box. Isthe pinger not working? Why are they searching from air looking for shadows instead of listening for pings which can be detected up to 5 miles away?
Alos, these bodies that are still in seatbelts, does that mean they are attached to the seat and it floats? Sounds likea major breakup of the fuselage.
1. People (at least in USA) have a death wish if they think it is better to brave the sky through a storm than not get to that terribly important WHATEVER in time.
2. Airline companies brainwash people (at least those in USA) into thinking that flying is just as safe even through storms. Which obviously it isn't.
Either way, 2 more reasons to lose further faith in humanity and be well on your way to irreparable misanthropy.
Right, because when was the last time a commercial aircraft in the U.S. went down in severe weather? There have been two fatalities in the past 2 years on U.S. soil and they were from a foreign carrier. And that was pilot error, not weather related. How many hundreds of millions of people have survived flying vs. those who didn't? The odds are stacked in your favor that you will safely arrive at your destination when flying.
didn't mean to infer that I thought the airlines over there should be flying in monsoon season, I don't think they should but we all know that's not how they operate (or are going to operate), or only operate at night when the weather patterns are supposedly less severe. I do feel that these pilots need a lot more training on how to handle these types of unusual weather patterns and not rely on auto pilot as much as they do. But I can see that decisions are made in a matter of seconds/minutes that can be disasterous, or sometimes Mother Nature just wins out in the end. There's a lot we humans have no control over.
Regarding the current recovery efforts being hampered by weather and visibility under water; I have a question for the technical minds here. I remember in a science class from years ago, proving that magnets work under water. Is there a magnet large enough and powerful enough to search & locate (and then lock onto) fuselage? There's gotta be some way to get around the problem of nil visibility....no?
Regarding the current recovery efforts being hampered by weather and visibility under water; I have a question for the technical minds here. I remember in a science class from years ago, proving that magnets work under water. Is there a magnet large enough and powerful enough to search & locate (and then lock onto) fuselage? There's gotta be some way to get around the problem of nil visibility....no?
Right, because when was the last time a commercial aircraft in the U.S. went down in severe weather?
It wasn't an US aircraft ...but it was French.
Is France that much worse than the US when it comes to flying? Why couldn't it happen to a US one too?
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