I sincerely hope this is it, for the sakes of the families. May they find peace.
And I also sincerely hope that within a year, the entire fleet of commercial passenger aircraft are outfitted with independent power source externally located gps locators that automatically trigger when transponders and or ACARS are disabled, so we don’t have to go through this again, ever.
Last week they were talking to a company that has black boxes that stream live from the “Cloud” that way finding the black box is not necessary..its about 100,000 per plane, and he said I think 300 planes already come equip with them..it would be great if they could come up with something so that the transponder and ACARS CANNOT be turned off, no matter what, that way if someone is in the cockpit and wants to hijack the plane he can’t turn it off
I’m not sure what kind of peace they will have. The “why” will not be answered by the black box data and they won’t recovery any bodies.
I was just flying yesterday with my Dad in his little plane. He has a device called Find Me Spot that’s the size of a pager that sits on the visor and pings a satellite every ten minutes with current location. The information is captured and stored so family members or emergency contacts can easily follow the path of the plane. When we landed he hits the OK button and it sends a final ping and turns off.
This device costs about $100 and a subscription to the database costs $49 per year.