Posted on 03/20/2014 4:54:01 PM PDT by IChing
I guess the point I would be making is what if the black box didn’t go off until next month (just for a theoretical example) — let’s say it doesn’t even start pinging until April 10th. That would mean that it wouldn’t stop pinging until approximately May 10th.
Then the other theoretical example is that it may never start pinging at all. In that case, there would never be 30 days to “count down”. The black box (in that case) would never be relevant at all.
I hope you see what I mean ... :-) ...
That’s true nostalgia for me. I remember working that evening (in Portland) and hearing about the hijacking and then later hearing about ole “DB”.
Then there was ole DB’s money that was found near Portland (at least part of it) ... many years later. What a deal!
Why would that be -- black box union rules or is it on vacation or having its period??? :)
The black box AIUI is designed to start pinging when it goes into water. So if it is working as designed and the plane went into the water 2 weeks ago, then it has already been pinging for 2 weeks.
Well ... you see ... that’s the assumption that some people make that we have no way of knowing if it’s a fact or not. We don’t know - for a fact - if the conditions exist for setting off the black box.
It’s one of the speculations as to what happened. It’s only speculation at this point in time.
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