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Originally Posted by T@T
It should be a no brainer to equip these planes with live tracking, especially ones that fly over water.
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I'm about to rehash Ken's post, basically.
You've made the false assumption that everything is going to work right up till the point you hit the water, which is a bad assumption, because something has obviously gone wrong given that you're about to hit the water.
Math: if your electronics conk out 60 seconds before you hit the water, that is now a
154 square mile area we have to search, such is the speed of airliners at cruise. And we don't know how much further you flew after the last GPS/radar return. That 154 square mile area gets exponentially larger pretty damn quick if your stuff failed any longer than 60 seconds before you hit the water.
If you want to turn on your $500 sat phone from Best Buy in the middle of nowhere and say, "hi, come and get me", then I'll see your target, know that's where you actually are, and tell them to come and get you. But it still might be a bit of wait cause... you're in the middle of nowhere.