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Attention Malaysia Airlines 777 missing between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing; 239 on board

Are you saying it was a set-up for a massive international April Fool's joke?
 
Dejavudoo said:
I think it disrespectful to the grieving families to suggest they are actors in a fraud.
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This grief thing has gotten out of hand. Almost a cottage industry these days fed by the relentless news cycle.

The passengers and crew are dead. Should have recognized that weeks ago and moved on.
 
Dejavudoo said:
Methinks the rarity of this sort of event works against any fleet-wide cost that would prevent recurrence. After all, it took how many flights completed before this sort of weird one-off occurrence?
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An "I crashed!" "screaming beacon" would add less to the cost of an airplane than the cost of an international first class ticket.

But what really works against the airlines actually taking steps to deal with such events is that they are insulated from the actual cost of their negligence. In an economically honest world, both airline and manufacturer would be paying for the search effort.

That, BTW, is one of the evils of government: it lets huge corporations avoid the actual cost of their actions, by foisting it onto taxpayers.
 
palbert said:
This grief thing has gotten out of hand. Almost a cottage industry these days fed by the relentless news cycle.

The passengers and crew are dead. Should have recognized that weeks ago and moved on.
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It's an interesting aspect of idolatry toward government that people think it should be all-knowing, and hand them knowledge of every little detail. Even a handful of generations ago, people understood that there are things we'll just never find out, including how and where people die, and accepted that and moved on.
 
Kulindahr said:
An "I crashed!" "screaming beacon" would add less to the cost of an airplane than the cost of an international first class ticket.

But what really works against the airlines actually taking steps to deal with such events is that they are insulated from the actual cost of their negligence. In an economically honest world, both airline and manufacturer would be paying for the search effort.

That, BTW, is one of the evils of government: it lets huge corporations avoid the actual cost of their actions, by foisting it onto taxpayers.
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They make GPS trackers for kids and pets... how hard would it be to put one on each airplane ??? Surely that would be a better use of the NSA than recording everyone's phone calls and Google browsing.
 
Kulindahr said:
An "I crashed!" "screaming beacon" would add less to the cost of an airplane than the cost of an international first class ticket.
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There is a programme on Discovery Canada called Mayday which duplicates various accidents throughout the history of modern transportation. I don't know if it is available on American television. They cover train wrecks, shipwrecks, etc., but concentrate mainly on plane crashes. They cover the accidents and the subsequent investigations into the causes, plus any recommendations made by the investigators. The programme uses actual footage, photos, survivor accounts, audio accounts, and eyewitness accounts to recreate the accident.

One rather disturbing thing that has been mentioned about plane crashes where the plane is at fault is that it is often cheaper for the airline or manufacturer to pay off any lawsuits than it is to remedy the situation on other planes. That would mean taking planes out of service for repairs, and that would mean an enormous loss of revenue.

In other words, profits are more important than passengers' lives.
 
gsdx said:
There is a programme on Discovery Canada called Mayday which duplicates various accidents throughout the history of modern transportation. I don't know if it is available on American television. They cover train wrecks, shipwrecks, etc., but concentrate mainly on plane crashes. They cover the accidents and the subsequent investigations into the causes, plus any recommendations made by the investigators. The programme uses actual footage, photos, survivor accounts, audio accounts, and eyewitness accounts to recreate the accident.

One rather disturbing thing that has been mentioned about plane crashes where the plane is at fault is that it is often cheaper for the airline or manufacturer to pay off any lawsuits than it is to remedy the situation on other planes. That would mean taking planes out of service for repairs, and that would mean an enormous loss of revenue.

In other words, profits are more important than passengers' lives.
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In this case a simple and cheap upgrade would prevent this sort of mystery from repeating.
 
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