An airline that has made sure its airplanes won't disappear

Re:An airline that has made sure its airplanes won't disappear by zaphar on Monday January 05, 2015 @04:41PM (#8841389)

Why? for location data all they need is GPS. If you know location you find the black box which has the telemetry data.

Is there a reason a location tracker can't be self contained with it's own power supply and no connections to a plane's telemetry feed?

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Re:An airline that has made sure its airplanes won't disappear by minikites on Monday January 05, 2015 @07:07PM (#8842130)

If you do that, the next time there's a crash like Air France 447, you'll see rending of garments and crappy articles like this (again) saying "Why have a black box when you can just transmit the data?!?!?!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447#Underwate...

> French Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses (BEA) chief Paul-Louis Arslanian said that he was not optimistic about finding them since they might have been under as much as 3,000 m (9,800 ft) of water and the terrain under this portion of the ocean was very rugged. Although France had never recovered a flight recorder from such depths, there was precedent for such an operation.

Crashed: June 2009

Black boxes found: May 2011

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Re:An airline that has made sure its airplanes won't disappear by marcosdumay on Monday January 05, 2015 @09:47PM (#8842656)

Notice that the AF447 had great telemetry reporting its position right before the accident. Searching for things at the sea bottom is simply hard.

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