We Can Prevent Another MH370

The additional cost for the risk of a lost aircraft is very low. Compared to the number of airplanes flying and the number flights made, this happens very, very rarely. So the extra cost to cover the risk would not be compelling.

Use something bright and noticeable, like what Chicago uses to dye their river green! Example Image: bit.ly/2GDFxfz

A slight issue is that if there is a crash in a suburb, par say, we have a big mess and a potential health hazard.

The dye pack would need to be released upon impact or rise to the surface before dismemberment. That setup would require a lot of engineering, testing and product development, all to get something that would be dispersed within hours. Remember however, any suggestion is better than none.

You're not an engineer or designer are you? There are obvious reasons this would not work.

No. Somebody pulled the circuit breakers on the key systems and ACARS. We've been through this before. How do you prevent someone from accessing their "NUT" Program for sabotaging aircraft?

"Build a better ELT that can operate under water."

Shoot, if your willing to just wish for pie-in-the-sky, you should have said "Build a better airplane that will never crash."

Right! They found # 447's recorders in May 2011

Uhhh, don't GPS transmitters only exist in outer space? Why do we need GPS transmitters underwater?

GPS relies on very low power communication with space born transmitters. The signal can be blocked by tunnels and bridges. It would not take much water to block them completely. That being said, the planes communicate with satellites while airborne, just intermittently. Some of those signals can be turned off by the flight crew, and that needs to be stopped. Had we known where MH370 was, minutes before it hit the water, the search would have started in the right place and likely located the pingers on the 'black boxes'. As it was, they had to run the satellite orbits through a computer program to determine about where the were when they received a signal. What is needed is live communication with every flight so that we always know exaxtly where the plane is. I think the system is beginning to come on line now.

Are you retarded? Where have and what have you failed to learn in the last 3 decades if your silly sack of flesh has been processing at all which I really seem to doubt. NOPE, thats it! You are RETARDED the evidence is overwhelming. If that aircraft hit the water as hard as we think it did. All your electronic crap would be inconveniently smashed into a BILLION PIECES!

Um. I can put a price on someones life. Many countries with socialized medical care are more than willing to put a price (RVU) on a persons life as pertaining to the quantity and quality of care. Anyone in the United States who see's the budgets knows that we put a value on lives of some (politicians) ahead of the plebeians every day.

We all take risks and we weigh out the options. It is factually safer to fly than to drive in the current world. In either case, there is an 'odd' involved. I simply do not see why any carriers (even more so a US carrier) would spend more money on being safer. There simply is no ROI.

Flame away.

You must put a price on peoples' lives, otherwise nothing would ever be created. Look at cars. If we adopted the attitude that peoples' lives are so priceless that we must spend whatever money necessary to keep ANYONE from dying, then we would not be able to produce cars at any cost. However, we do a cost/benefit analysis, and as a society, accept the tens of thousands of highway deaths each year because we don't want to spend more on the problem than we have already.

Exactly, there'd be a cost without any real compelling benefit. It sounds cruel but it's really no big deal in the grand scheme of aviation to lose a few planes without explanation, especially compared to the daily carnage that's occurring on the ground with passenger vehicles.

Are you being funny? Such a thing exists, even on MH370.

And it would still not prevent MH370... In fact, I can't even think of a single time this idea would have saved a single life....

Who are "we" and why does this sound like a "New tin Ribbon" cause celebre?

Removing the 'Boeing Uninterruptable Auto-Pilot' (BUAP} would be the answer to MH370 and I believe Boeing is doing this currently.

It can be hacked. To many holes to plug.

Until the captain disables the ground link.

I'd rather that my pilots have "skin in the game".

That would be interesting, but what about the missing people, where would they be??

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GPS satellites broadcast information, they don't receive. So they allow the airplanes to know where they are on the globe at any time, but if the airplane wants to tell someone else it must use a different system.

What?