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The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery
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."
Something like that already exists.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
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.
They reel you in with that el-cheapo 100K offer, but then you have to sign a 24 month contract. The "unlimited" streaming plan streams at high speed only for 2GB, then it crawls at 128 Kbps. Want really really unlimited, then you pay per GB. Then there are roaming charges. International roaming charges. Then international texting charges. You have to root the device to install WhatsApp. When the contract is up they will do employ high pressure sales tactics to sign on for another two years for marginal upgrades. Original "free" equipment is designed to crap out in 24 months. Stay away from these data streaming companies.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
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.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
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!
Can't we just get the copilot to throw the black box out of the window before they hit the sea?
Much cheaper...
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