Bruce Willis from Unbreakable? I think he still needs to breathe.
I think this is a mechanical issue. Other airplanes are flying in the area at the same altitude at the same time, but didn't go missing.
The ONLY reason these airplanes are not tracked is cost. Enabling 1 second update rates requires money for new avionics and for the service. Unless it is mandated for these budget airlines (or any airline) then the cost will always override the safety benefit. Profit > safety.
I suggest you read my post again before you continue to spout idiocy...
...No one has ever survived a water landing. And even if they did, they would die long before help ever got to them.
Miracle on the Hudson. In before that doesn't count.
... WTF?! They force flights through the center of storms due to strict flight paths? Having no allowances or plan B is insane.
How about this water landing:
http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/ga421/photo.shtml
The aircraft was on a flight from Lombok to Yogyakarta when the crew was forced to make an emergency landing in the Benjawang Solo River, approximately 14 miles from their destination airport of Yogyakarta. Weather at the time of the accident was poor. A flight attendant was reportedly killed in the accident.
Its because our air traffic control tech is old as dirt. My phone is better than what they currently have in the cockpit.
If they would implement the "new" GPS system we wouldn't need "air highways" like we currently have and instead let flights go from point A to point B. It would also allow both pilots and ATC to see exactly where other aircraft are in real time, planes could take off and land much faster and basically make the entire system far more efficient.
Right now we basically have highways in the air, forcing flights to add hundreds of miles to their routes, with planes "stacked" X miles apart and at different altitudes. I highly doubt that their was a plane directly above the flight in question but due to the inefficiencies in tracking planes and margin of error ATC couldn't allow the plane to climb. Had the not so new system been installed the pilot could have seen exactly where the other aircraft was, communicated directly with the other pilot, and safely altered his course.
How about this water landing:
http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/ga421/photo.shtml
The aircraft was on a flight from Lombok to Yogyakarta when the crew was forced to make an emergency landing in the Benjawang Solo River, approximately 14 miles from their destination airport of Yogyakarta. Weather at the time of the accident was poor. A flight attendant was reportedly killed in the accident.
Or the hijacked Ethiopian flight that crashed in the ocean and many of the passengers lived. Apologists for failure can whine about it being too hard or too expensive to track planes in distress but if some ATOT'er (or even one of those P&N 'tards) was clinging to their seat cushion out in the water somewhere I would want them to know it would only be a matter of hours, not days, till rafts started dropping from the sky.
Its because our air traffic control tech is old as dirt. My phone is better than what they currently have in the cockpit.
If they would implement the "new" GPS system we wouldn't need "air highways" like we currently have and instead let flights go from point A to point B. It would also allow both pilots and ATC to see exactly where other aircraft are in real time, planes could take off and land much faster and basically make the entire system far more efficient.
Right now we basically have highways in the air, forcing flights to add hundreds of miles to their routes, with planes "stacked" X miles apart and at different altitudes. I highly doubt that their was a plane directly above the flight in question but due to the inefficiencies in tracking planes and margin of error ATC couldn't allow the plane to climb. Had the not so new system been installed the pilot could have seen exactly where the other aircraft was, communicated directly with the other pilot, and safely altered his course.
I was about to ask, don't these planes have GPS? I could track the ship my car was on from Germany across the Atlantic with updates every minute yet we lose planes full of people?
Unplug your GPS, coast for a bit, and then see how easy it is to find you.
Why are they unplugging it?
No one has ever survived a water landing.
Why do you people think a calm river landing and a fuel-less ocean landing that happened 500 yards from shore with a prepared crew is anywhere near comparable to a fueled aircraft landing during the middle of an emergency scenario?
Why do you people think you can keep talking about the aircraft industry with zero knowledge about what goes into these things?
Because if a plane is having emergency issues, the location tracking system probably won't be working.
Would not any airplane, not designed to land in the water, actually landing in the water be considered an emergency scenario? Are river landings and fuel-less ocean landings somehow not water landings?
You seem crazy. Calm down, gather your thoughts, then pos
LOL srs, I LOL'd IRL.
Clearly an insurmountable problem.
Clearly an insurmountable problem.
Its because our air traffic control tech is old as dirt. My phone is better than what they currently have in the cockpit.
If they would implement the "new" GPS system we wouldn't need "air highways" like we currently have and instead let flights go from point A to point B. It would also allow both pilots and ATC to see exactly where other aircraft are in real time, planes could take off and land much faster and basically make the entire system far more efficient.
Right now we basically have highways in the air, forcing flights to add hundreds of miles to their routes, with planes "stacked" X miles apart and at different altitudes. I highly doubt that their was a plane directly above the flight in question but due to the inefficiencies in tracking planes and margin of error ATC couldn't allow the plane to climb. Had the not so new system been installed the pilot could have seen exactly where the other aircraft was, communicated directly with the other pilot, and safely altered his course.
I was about to ask, don't these planes have GPS? I could track the ship my car was on from Germany across the Atlantic with updates every minute yet we lose planes full of people?
I'm sorry you don't understand why people in the Airline industry do the things they do.
The blinky light IS attached to the send help beacon. The problem is that, in the case of a ocean landing, the send help beacon needs to penetrate several miles of ocean in order to get a signal out, which isn't happening. As for the plane in the air, planes can fly for a damn long time even without any power, and if a plane loses all power and it can't run the location tracking systems, even when searchers know the last known location of a plane, there is still a huge area they have to search for debris. Have you seen the ocean? A plane is a insignificant speck compared to the entire thing.
In 99.99% of cases, the system works perfectly fine. But you can never account for that last .01% which is what these last two incidents are. That last .01%.