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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most expensive?

[the_Bionic_lemming]

What would the Amelia Earhart' search cost in today's dollars when you factor in all of the historic effort?

20 years from now, if a jet goes missing, it'll be the most expensive search in history.

The same as if another massive Hurricane hits in a populated area 20 years from now It will be the most expensive in history.

Heck, if inflation keeps up, 70 years from now if a factory burns down, the cost will dwarf the famous chicago fire simply because the reporters will be intellectually dishonest and just make sure that the cost will lack any simple comparison of monetary value and effort over a period of time.