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Most Expensive Aviation Search: $53 Million To Find Flight MH370

mdsolar (1045926) writes "The search and investigation into missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is already the most expensive in aviation history, figures released to Fairfax Media suggest. The snippets of costings provide only a small snapshot but the $US50 million ($54 million) spent on the two-year probe into Air France Flight 447 — the previous record — appears to have been easily surpassed after just four weeks.... The biggest expense in the search has involved ships, satellites, planes and submarines deployed first in the South China Sea and the Malacca Straits, and then in the remote reaches of the southern Indian Ocean."

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  1. Cool! $50 million USD = $54 million! by TrollstonButterbeans · · Score: 1, Funny

    I am now walking to my local bank and trying to explain how my $5000 USD is actually $5400! I printed a copy of this article as proof!!!!

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  2. Re:But Terrizm! by seyyah · · Score: 5, Funny

    the only explanation that makes sense to me is okham's racer

    Congratulations you are the first person ever to have misspelt Occam's Razor Okham's racer.

  3. Re:But Terrizm! by noh8rz10 · · Score: 4, Funny

    laughing so hard... I thought you were exaggerating but i checked the link and in fact google only returns one hit for "okham's racer", which directs back to this page. That's a first for me, I should get like an internet trophy or something.

  4. Re:But Terrizm! by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm a former electronic warfare drone

    The system goes on-line April 2nd, 2014. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 06:25 a.m. eastern time, April 5th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

    But it's too late. It's already posted on Slashdot.

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