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Re:An airline that has made sure its airplanes won't disappear by ceejayoz on Monday January 05, 2015 @05:10PM (#8841557)
> You usually get the black box upon recovery, which doesn't save the passengers, but does get you all the valuable data.

And recovery is only possible if you can find the wreckage. MH370 is still missing, and as such the cause of its crash is unknown. If we had real-time GPS monitoring of airliners, chances are we'd have wreckage in-hand.

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Re:An airline that has made sure its airplanes won't disappear by toomuchtodo on Monday January 05, 2015 @06:01PM (#8841842)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unrecovered_flight_reco...

17 unrecovered black boxes since 1965. I don't think that calls for spending tens of millions of dollars considering ADS-B and Iridium will have the problem solved in the next few years: http://www.aireon.com/AboutAireon/AnIridiumInnovation

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Re:An airline that has made sure its airplanes won't disappear by toomuchtodo on Monday January 05, 2015 @05:14PM (#8841582)
MH370 was rare. You typically have a small search space with a downed aircraft, and the black box announces itself acoustically underwater for up to 30 days.
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