Comments on: Crash Prompts Call For Black Box Reforms

After Air France Ocean Crash, Call Grows For Flight Recorders That Can Transmit Data

[wogerwabbit]

It's a search that may prove fruitless. Investigators never found the black boxes from the planes that crashed into the world trade center on 9/11.

BS... they never looked for them because they would show the truth. As an ex-New York air traffic controller, I find the whole 9/11flight scenarios totally unbelievable. Standard Operating Procedures were NOT followed... not even close... why? And the one thing that really get's me, is how did they know so soon these 19 guys hijacked the planes when none of them, NOT ONE, showed up on the published passenger lists?

[Timnsteph]

What about an EPIRB device with the "Black Box"? Federal regulations require ocean vessels to have them. Finding the "Black Box" would be simple, relatively easily to locate, and a cheap alternative. As far as real-time information with satellites in bad weather conditions, hahahahahahaha.....keep dreaming.

[thgdriver]

"People raise the issue of cost. But think of the tens of millions of dollars that are being spent right now mounting this search today in the South Pacific," said Goelz.

It would seem they are looking in the wrong ocean. LOL!!

[whitemale08]

Folks, this is a cover-up story.

China and Brazil have been trading recently without use of now worthless Federal Reserve Notes, to see if it's possible to completely dump the dollar.

Bloomberg is reporting today that a 'new reserve currency is possible but won't be quick'.

If that were to happen, then literaly in 24 to 48 hrs, the world's economy would grind to a halt, causing massive chaos beyond belief.

My theory is that a story like this could be used to reverse that trend to trade without the dollar by blaming Brazil for harboring terrorists.

Everytime the media uses the word 'reform', it's a cover-up.

Only 3 planes in aviation history have missing black boxes, the 2 on 9/11 and this Air France incident.

[hungry1968-15]

They mentioned on tv 2 days ago, that almost every plane flying today DOES NOT have GPS on it.

Wouldn't that be a logical place to start? I mean really, my CELL PHONE has GPS on it, but the plane carrying several hundred people, thousands of miles, at 600+ MPH, 7 miles in the air, DOESN'T?

Seriously?

[moosbrth]

No blacks boxes were ever found in the 911 incident and only Mohammad Atta's passport completely intact was found, fancy that. Something rotten in Denmark ever since 911.

[rwsmith29456]

I would think that a black box wouldn't have to transmit continuously, but that an alarm would send a wake up call to a satellite or ground station that would begin recording.

[lsk2141]

The difficulty to locate the black box of flight 477 and many other planes that has gone down to the deep sea has call for changes in the flight recorder and its location reporting feature. The Passenger aircraft manufactures should design a flight recoder that is capable of sending very strong signal when it is in deep sea to the satelite above it for easy location of the plane that has gone down via GPS facilities. This could help the aviation authorities to locate the unsuccesful flight. This feature also helps to locate the plane if it crash in deep forested mountain where search and rescue operation is needed to be done at the shortest possible time.

[ToolMangler1]

Hindsight is 'so' 20,20. 'Doh'

[Yes_ABWH_Fan]

They need real-time critical-data sent (rescue time might be of the essence), PLUS they need two physical black boxes - one that sinks and one that floats, to capture "after failure" data. The one that sinks "stays with the plane", or what's left of it, to help locate it. If a crash happens on land, then 2 in a crash doubles the odds of finding one in working order.