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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
I know but surely there would be a work around for it. If I can get online and track any flight Dave is on within 10 minutes of real time (and thats pretty darn close for me) there has to be a way for them to securely transmit the data to whatever agency is tracking them at the time
Somebody help me invent this so we can be rich lol
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I think the problem with what you're talking about at the moment is there are huge black out spots for sat. coverage in the mid to South Atlantic, Indian Ocean and to a lesser extent the South Pacific. No sat coverage, no GPS.
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Originally Posted by Charlatan
If this was a terrorist attack, you wouldn't have to wait for the government to release anything. There would be terrorists jumping up and down saying, "That was me! I did that!"
Which would beg the question, why would you blow up a plane in the middle of the Ocean when you could do it over a populated centre for greater impact?
They found the debris this morning so I am sure we will eventually get some sort of answer on this.
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I agree. If some terrorist group did this they'd take credit asap.
As for answers I think they may be slow in coming. Most of the reports I've read have the plane going down in waters somewhere between 6500-10,000ft. That's freaking deep water. The Titanic sits at about 12,000ft., so a little deeper. But really anything even close to that depth and you're talking maybe 6-8 (basing this number on conversations on a dive site I use, don't really know for sure) vessels in the world with diving capability like that. The weather on the surface is an issue. The weather there right now sucks and I don't think they'd try a dive to recover anything in it. Could be months before that changes. Then there's the issue of finding the black box. It has a "ping" device attached but they have no idea, as of the last report I read, whether it's working and won't know if it's still attached to the actually box until they retrieve it. The Brazilian Navy has the tech to find the pinging unit but not to recover it.
Long and short is this isn't going to be like TWA 800 that went down in a few hundred feet of water off the coast of Long island NY. Where they were able to literally recover and rebuild the craft. This planes in the middle of no where at a serious depth.