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In reply to the discussion: How do we lose an airplane [View all]proudretiredvet
(312 posts)65. This is not a point that I can argue.
What I know is that or ability to Hear slight and out of place noises with passive detectors at great distances is far advanced. It is what the boats do in detecting other subs. I don't think this, I know this.
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yes I'm talking to you and you seem to think that if it doesn't go down in a giant ocean...
CreekDog
Mar 2014
#112
if only i'd realized i was arguing with someone who uses the term "gun grabber"
CreekDog
Mar 2014
#189
so you follow me to this thread to talk about something other than the thread
CreekDog
Mar 2014
#218
Judging by your posts, you are assuming exactly where it went down. You cannot.
Glassunion
Mar 2014
#162
The poster was referring to land populations, which are heavy in the region where the
bluestate10
Mar 2014
#177
It's easy to lose track of ones that are beamed up to the mother ship in orbit
FarCenter
Mar 2014
#5
Isn't general aviation traffic tracked by transponder broadcasts from the planes?
HereSince1628
Mar 2014
#16
The transponders provide altitude and tail number, not position, speed, or direction.
Angleae
Mar 2014
#159
Well, the Malaysians lost it, and it clearly met with a castastrophe of some sort.
MADem
Mar 2014
#13
If the engines fell off, I'd expect the electrical system to be in very poor shape
jeff47
Mar 2014
#64
I'm with you. While catastrophic structural failure or terrorism are possible causes......
Hassin Bin Sober
Mar 2014
#215
Not strange if there was a catastrophic explosion, or major malfunction and the pilots were
LuckyLib
Mar 2014
#89
It would be like searching for a penny on a football field while looking through a soda straw
hack89
Mar 2014
#54
Sorry, but US spy satellites are advanced enough to highlight an infected pimple
bluestate10
Mar 2014
#178
People don't understand that the entire surface of the Earth isn't always being photographed.
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2014
#188
C'mon. they were likely traveling at 550 mph. There is also the notion that they turned back.
okaawhatever
Mar 2014
#94
plane was leaving Brazil, and wreckage was found the next day - the data recorders were found later
Baclava
Mar 2014
#47
that's what I said, but wreckage was found the next day or so, plane crashes can't hide in the ocean
Baclava
Mar 2014
#80
Since the water is shallow (~75 meters) it may also limit the range of the black box pingers
FarCenter
Mar 2014
#35
Funny how we're told things like a satellite can read a lottery ticket accurately. If we're
valerief
Mar 2014
#42
For a satellite to see it, you would have to tell it exactly where and at what focal length
A HERETIC I AM
Mar 2014
#81
Maybe the large amount of garbage we throw in the oceans is obscuring the debris field?
NickB79
Mar 2014
#150
The one conclusion I draw is that the likelihood of terrorism as a cause decreases every day.
DebJ
Mar 2014
#61
Well yes and no....the Air Egypt flight that the pilot did a "Allah Akbar" when the copilot..
EX500rider
Mar 2014
#124
However when used before killing 217 people on purpose you can also draw a different conclusion. n/t
EX500rider
Mar 2014
#131
I am saying it was intentional because he flew the plane into the ocean on purpose.
EX500rider
Mar 2014
#138
Terrorism requires a threat; terrorist actions are meant to instigate some sort of
DebJ
Mar 2014
#142
And actually what he said was: "Tawkalt ala Allah", which translates to "I rely on God."...
EX500rider
Mar 2014
#133
That you can't just upsize. Larger components cause larger stresses in the device.
jeff47
Mar 2014
#140
Both the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder survived the flight 93 crash in PA
whopis01
Mar 2014
#161
You actually believe the entire surface of the Earth is videotaped at all times?
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2014
#185
Maybe they actually don't know. They aren't omniscient, for fuck's sake.
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2014
#181
In that case, we shouldn't be throwing money away at these piles of junk floating in space
2banon
Mar 2014
#228
A strange thought crossed my mind this morning that it got hijacked and taken to
Cleita
Mar 2014
#147
Kinda what happens when you fly vertically into the ground at 500mph+ in a aluminum tube. n/t
EX500rider
Mar 2014
#130
This article may help explain it for you. AF447 took 5 days to find any wreckage.
uppityperson
Mar 2014
#158
In 1956 a B-25 bomber ditched in the Monongahela river. It was witnessed. Some of the crew survived.
LeftyMom
Mar 2014
#166
For a wider area search, they should use one of the big drones, like a Global Hawk
FarCenter
Mar 2014
#190
How is it that on 9 Eleven, cell phone calls were made from the hijacked planes, yet
KewlKat
Mar 2014
#224