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Hoping this is true and the plane's black box can be located as well.
by antonius 13y ago
Hoping this is true and the plane's black box can be located as well.
- laurencei 13y agoEven if some debris is found, it might still take years to locate the actual aircraft wreck deep underwater, and recover the black box(s) and get any real answers (like in the Air France crash).
- zxexz 13y agoThey still have about 2 weeks before the pinger runs out of battery. So there is a decent chance they could find it within 2 weeks, but if the wreck isn't found by then, it could definitely take years to find it, if ever.
- marshray 13y agoI suspect this kind of sonar application is why TI is making analog-to-digital conversion chips with 31 bits of resolution: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/ads1282-ht.pdf http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/ads1282-ht.pdf Compare to 16- to 24- bit resolution in your typical audio processing chain.
- paul_f 13y agoIn the case of Air France 447, it did take 2 years to recover the black box. I'm guessing this one will be quicker because of the potential terrorism angle.
- kinleyd 13y agoIt would mean no survivors. So sad.
- hudibras 13y agoUnless the debris includes a liferaft. But I'm not keeping my hopes up.
- thesis 13y agoI really hate to be negative about this but isn't this highly unlikely considering the rafts on the planes have emergency locator radio beacons?
- Trezoid 13y agoOther things on the plane also have similar beacons (the flight recorder, most notably) but have yet to be found, so it's not completely out of the question that they be deployed but not located.
- ricardonunez 13y agoAnytime an airplane disappears the probability to find anybody alive is small. The day it happened I was already feeling sad about it. I just can't imagine how the families must feel every time news are announced.
- knodi123 13y agoWhere do you think survivors could possibly be? A mysterious tropical island, lost in time and space?
- kinleyd 13y agoHow about a widely held view so far: Possibly held captive by hijackers or terrorists? Not desirable, but better than certain death indicated by debris (if confirmed).