{"id":147,"date":"2014-03-11T14:24:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T22:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=147"},"modified":"2014-03-11T14:24:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T22:24:14","slug":"how-can-an-airliner-just-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/how-can-an-airliner-just-disappear\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can An Airliner Just Disappear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/how-can-an-airliner-just-disappear\/\" data-text=\"How Can An Airliner Just Disappear%3f\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Post title cribbed from this Popular Mechanics article: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/aviation\/crashes\/malaysia-airline-flight-370-how-can-an-airliner-just-disappear-16578965?click=pm_latest\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;&#8216;How Can An Airliner Just Disappear?&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 Of course the answer to that question is &#8220;it can&#8217;t&#8221;. \u00a0But even something that large can be very hard to find.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_148\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?attachment_id=148\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148\" alt=\"Missing\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Malaysia-777-300x205.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Malaysia-777-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Malaysia-777-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Malaysia-777.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Missing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this case, as in almost all cases, the simplest explanation is the correct explanation. \u00a0So, in this case that explanation is that the plane crashed into the ocean. \u00a0But there are a couple questions that make me wonder:<\/p>\n<p><em>Why no debris? \u00a0Even if the plane broke up at high altitude there should be some flotsam and jetsam (no pun intended). \u00a0Though the search area is large, there should be a debris field of some kind. \u00a0To my knowledge there has not been a shred yet recovered.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And second, why hasn&#8217;t the ping from the black boxes been heard? \u00a0Even when Air France 447 went down in mid-atlantic a few years ago the boxes&#8217; ping could be detected though the wreckage was under 13,000 feet of water. \u00a0In the current case the water&#8217;s depth is in \u00a0the range of hundreds of feet, not thousands.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Currently, modern aircraft (the Boeing 777 is among the most modern) do communicate autonomously with ground crews, but the system used has insufficient bandwidth for large amounts of data such as that collected by the black boxes. \u00a0That may change in the future, as a new satellite communication network is under development,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuanaenterprises.com\/wordpress\/?p=203\" target=\"_blank\">written about by me here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am not an expert by any stretch of the imagination. \u00a0And as I said earlier, the simplest explanation is probably correct. \u00a0All we can do now is pray for the passengers, crew and their families.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Post title cribbed from this Popular Mechanics article: \u00a0&#8220;&#8216;How Can An Airliner Just Disappear?&#8221;\u00a0 Of course the answer to that question is &#8220;it can&#8217;t&#8221;. \u00a0But even something that large can be very hard to find. &nbsp; In this case, as in almost all cases,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}