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That's a truism. You're kind of ignoring their point though, which was that the data existed and was readily available. Internet forums may be "jumping to conc
by Someone1234 8y ago
That's a truism. You're kind of ignoring their point though, which was that the data existed and was readily available.
Internet forums may be "jumping to conclusion" but regulators have had this data for days, and didn't act on it. They only acted after regulators in Europe and elsewhere acted first.
- JustSomeNobody 8y agoMaybe the operative word is validated, then.
- rfugger 8y agoIf you're a regulator, and you have unvalidated data that suggests a plane may be unsafe, how long do you wait for validated data before deciding to ground that plane "out of an abundance of caution"?
- JustSomeNobody 8y agoThree days? It's their job to keep people safe. They do that by looking at data they trust. I don't envy the position they're in this week one bit.
- joezydeco 8y agoThe "data" being ADS-B information gathered by amateurs over homemade receivers? If I was a regulator I'd want a verified and traceable data source as well.
- marcosdumay 8y agoTiming does not carry much information here. Those decisions are taken by bureaucracies, and we are talking about days. The Brazilian flight authority, for example, makes this kind of decision once a week, and there's a backlog. Even if all the technical analysis was ready minutes after the accident, it wouldn't have decided on it yet. Most western ones have a similar organizational model. Data gathering takes days, data verification takes days, every time one has to contact somebody in a timezone with 4+ hours of difference, it takes a couple of days, informing superiors takes days, scheduling a decision takes days, even publishing it takes days.