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SHRED

(28,136 posts) Sun Apr 13, 2014, 09:10 PM Apr 2014

Flight 370 search expense to the public [View all]

So how many public entities are working on this search worldwide? I know our US Navy is.

How many public dollars are being spent? I am guessing A LOT! A lot for a private industry screw up.
Will Malaysian Airlines reimburse governments worldwide involved in this? They should but I doubt if they will.

Forgive me if I am a bit jaded here but I had a friend die in a diving accident off La Jolla, CA years ago and the body was never recovered. To top it off the Navy was asked if they could use a sonar ship to look and they refused.

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Flight 370 search expense to the public [View all] SHRED Apr 2014 OP

It's not about recovering bodies it's about recovering what happened to the aircraft oneofthe99 Apr 2014 #1

Finding the cause is the reason. Not the people. nt Logical Apr 2014 #2

they need to take all reasonable efforts to find out what happened to that plane Skittles Apr 2014 #3

It's an important thing to do. Warren DeMontague Apr 2014 #4

Good lord... what a waste. Agschmid Apr 2014 #6

It's worth the cost... Agschmid Apr 2014 #5

this isn't just about getting the body, you know how your friend died, we have no idea why this JI7 Apr 2014 #7

Oh I complain about other spending too... SHRED Apr 2014 #8

Unless new people were hired SevenSixtyTwo Apr 2014 #9

It's not costing that much, in the larger scheme of things frazzled Apr 2014 #10

Marginal additional cost probably isn't that great onenote Apr 2014 #11

The military loves these excercises customerserviceguy Apr 2014 #12

I agree with what others have said davidpdx Apr 2014 #13