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Those boxes are built to be untrashable.
As were the boxes on 9/11, but those were allegedly destroyed in the fire.
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"The only way we'll get to understand that is by finding the black box which of course would explain the whole thing anyway." I appreciate that there are technical challenges and costs associated with the following idea, but it would be quite an interesting project to create a system that would transmit Flight Data Recorder (FDR) information to a ground location. Off the top of my head, it would need to be flexible,…
Alternatively, why don't planes have floating EPIRBs ( http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distress_radiobeacon ) or even floating black boxes? They could be attached to one or more points on the plane where they're likely to be released if wreckage sinks.
The autopilot until fuel exhaustion theory doesn't explain how it ended up on this line: http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73602000/jpg/_73602229...
Look how close it went to the airport... it flew right past it because of the fire? http://findmh370.tumblr.com/
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In a dire emergency, you would just dump the fuel and not try to burn it off.
Except, the 777 does not have fuel dumping. It was not required for certification because it meets the minimum required climb rate with an engine failure after takeoff at Max Gross Weight.
http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/7/4/7/23...
Look at the top center, at the "Fuel Jettison" switches. (This is a 777-200 non ER, but I doubt the ER model would remove this feature.)
But how often do two passengers use stolen passports to board the plane?
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Plenty of weird reasons to climb like that[1]. I think people dramatically underestimate how mechanical and/or electronic system failure combines with human misjudgement to make things operate in entirely unpredictable ways. I've never been involved in an air crash investigation, but I have done many system outage investigations. The majority of them[2] involve a failure of a hardware/software system, followed by man…
Completely agree. I'm surprised that, especially on HN, the large number of people who won't apply Occam's Razer to the situation. I imagine that most air accident investigations begin like this; confused, competing information from numerous sources of varying reliability. Just with the internet and 24h news, everyone is following along with each revelation (see also the Pistorius trial). Give it some time, let the i…
I think that the lack of clear & sufficient information makes Occam's Razer hard to apply.
