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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 2 June | 86 comments (86 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Very sad. I remain mystified that flight recorders are so easy to lose, they're really too valuable a source of information to just allow them to disappear.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Jun 1st, 2009 at 03:46:54 PM EST
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If it's at the bottom of the ocean, then what? Is there technology to cover this possibility?

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Mon Jun 1st, 2009 at 04:10:38 PM EST
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Yea, if it can be located, it can be recovered.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Jun 1st, 2009 at 04:31:36 PM EST
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That's the problem. Locating it at the bottom of the ocean. I guess the beeper has limits.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Tue Jun 2nd, 2009 at 07:04:05 AM EST
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it seems odd to me too, that in this day and age there isn't a gps location signal activated at all times, but especially and as soon as something goes wrong.

and making a black box only run its beeper for a month seems a little cheap, considering the value of peoples' lives entrusted to these behemoths.

and the value of said behemoths themselves.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Jun 3rd, 2009 at 02:53:09 AM EST
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