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Debris from Flight

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014 9:24 AM

Debris from Flight QZ8501 and two bodies are discovered in the sea off Indonesia, dealing a heartbreaking blow to families whose loved ones were on the missing jet.

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014 10:11 AM

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One Airline Figured Out How To Make Sure Its Airplanes Never Disappear
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/31/one-airline-figure
d-out-how-to-make-sure-its-airplanes-never-disappear/

First Air, a Canadian airliner, flies across some of the most remote and sparsely populated areas on the continent, with routes going as far north as Resolute Bay, in the Arctic Circle. Its planes are often beyond the reach of conventional radar. They are also nearly disappearance-proof.

That’s because of a six-pound tracking system installed in the planes’ electronics bays. If something goes wrong — a sudden loss of altitude; an unexpected bank; engine vibrations — the system begins transmitting performance data to the ground, via satellite, every second. That six-pound box also provides the basics necessary for a search-and-rescue: coordinates, speed, and altitude.

But First Air is an outlier. Most commercial airlines have no safeguard; as seen in the case of AirAsia Flight 8501, they can crash into the sea without relaying any information about their last minutes of flight.

Given the technology that’s available, airplanes are surprisingly non-communicative. They have transponders that broadcast location, but those only work in tandem with radar. (So, good luck over the deep ocean.)

Why don’t airlines opt for a better system? Cost is the first explanation. The system being used by First Air was designed by Calgary-based FLYHT Aerospace Solutions. Installation runs about $120,000 per plane, FLYHT CEO Bill Tempany said in a phone interview. But when the plane costs $120,000,000, I don't think $120,000 is too high a price. www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/prices/

“The industry itself feels it has no reason to hurry up and do it,” Tempany said about improvements to real-time tracking. “They feel everything is good just the way it is. I personally have a very strong feeling that it’s not fair to the flying public.”

Since MH370 veered from its course and vanished in early March, a task force set up by the airline trade association has suggested that airliners install systems where key information is transmitted at least once every 15 minutes. But analysts who follow the industry say that airline officials don't feel a need to make improvements.

In discussing about potential safety advances, Tony Tyler, the International Air Transport Association director general, said earlier this month that “We ain't doing it because 100,000 flights operate every day without crashing. Why worry about the one plane that does crash? I won't be on it.”

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014 1:03 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

Interesting tactic, second. Feeding a troll with actual useful information.

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014 4:29 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by ecgordon:
Interesting tactic, second. Feeding a troll with actual useful information.

MURLIWALA is more accurately described as a spambot than a troll. How about a comic book Wash picture I saw today? I do believe Wash has Blue Sun beer in his hand, getting ready early for the New Year celebration.
http://gornkniznik.deviantart.com/art/Wash-Disney-503875495

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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