Air France Plane w.228 Passengers Disappears Over Atlantic

First Reports: An Air France plane carrying at least 228 people from Brazil to France has gone missing over the Atlantic.

(Via BBC News)
RedSkysays...

>> ^ponceleon:
>> ^kulpims:
relax. it's a viral for Lost, season 6

I'm torn between "too soon" and "too funny"


I'm torn between "damn you beat me to it!" and "that so could have been my comment".

No clue what I'm talking about here, but surely modern airplanes would carry some global positioning system that would allow them to be trackable by satellite? Assuming no electrical malfunction, I can't understand why it'd be difficult to position them using that.

ponceleonsays...

>> ^RedSky:
>> ^ponceleon:
>> ^kulpims:
relax. it's a viral for Lost, season 6

I'm torn between "too soon" and "too funny"

I'm torn between "damn you beat me to it!" and "that so could have been my comment".
No clue what I'm talking about here, but surely modern airplanes would carry some global positioning system that would allow them to be trackable by satellite? Assuming no electrical malfunction, I can't understand why it'd be difficult to position them using that.



Not to be morbid, but I don't think GPS works at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean.

ReverendTedsays...

Reading the transcript of the cockpit voice recorder for AF447 might be enough to put you off flying for a while.
The inexperienced co-pilot inadvertently did exactly what he needed to do to drop the A330 into the ocean. The senior pilot and co-pilot could have easily saved the plane but a lack of effective communication kept them from realizing what was happening until it was too late.

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