Another airliner MISSING?

JimNtexas said:
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Thanks, seems like no new information other then a SAR mission.

Interesting to read one of the responses that the whole crew was Muslim, wonder if that had any play in the incident? Another picture showed that the airplane was in a really bad thunderstorm.... just waiting for an update I guess.
 
Yeah I'm going to go with the weather before religion on this one. Hard to imagine they'd request a deviation for weather shortly before committing suicide.
 
Conceptual idea:

Install a modest size device in a few places on the top and bottom of the fuselage that when external pressure exceeds a certain number of atmospheres (which only can happen if you're underwater or in a pressure chamber), bursts through its cover and floats to the surface. Once at the surface, starts pinging the EPIRB system.

Idea is to provide a system that would help SAR narrow the search radius/corridor. And do so with minimal penalty to cost and weight.

TL;DR -- Provide a ELT system that deploys when an aircraft goes down in the ocean.
 
AggieMike88 said:
TL;DR -- Provide a ELT system that deploys when an aircraft goes down in the ocean.
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Something similar is already in place in some military aircraft. Google deployable flight incident recorder, or DFIRS.

Nauga,
an end-user
 
AggieMike88 said:
Conceptual idea:

TL;DR -- Provide a ELT system that deploys when an aircraft goes down in the ocean.
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I've been wondering why this hasn't been done already. My added suggestion is to have it always on, pinging flight data. Something the pilots cannot turn off at will, or where an electrical fire in the cockpit won't interfere with its operation. Basically an always on transponder coded to that particular airplane (which floats in the case of water impact). Seems simple and doable?
 
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