'Contact lost' with Malaysia Airlines plane

Domo · 2 Apr 2014 at 20:26

Westyfield2 said:
After British company Inmarsat traced the plane with the Doppler Effect on the Satellite pings, now the British Submarine HMS Tireless is on the scene.
Bets on the British Navy being the ones that find it?

Rule, Britannia!

Maybe I'm wrong but hasn't the search moved on from where Inmarsat suggested because that too was wrong - based on the increased speed of the aircraft not factored?

Domo · 5 Apr 2014 at 11:43

Arbitrary selection of land mass to determine scale of search. That or we can all holiday in the Indian Ocean for less than £50!

Domo · 6 Apr 2014 at 09:11

According to wiki the term 'Black Box' has nothing to do with it's physical appearance but describes it's implementation.

Domo · 11 Mar 2019 at 07:26

Hodders said:
I don't understand why planes don't simply upload the black box and voice data to the cloud as they travel.

Would make finding them a breeze as GPS data could also easily be included.

There is a Canadian firm which provides black box streaming services already. http://flyht.com/

Some other interesting things I just discovered.

Pilots have previously objected to cockpit cams.

There has been discussions around developing a black box which can eject and parachute (with floating aids).

Apparently the cost of data streaming is an issue, as correctly pointed out by @CaptainRAVE. And that Flyht system is $100k for hardware and installation per plane.