Black Box with GPS?
2009 June 4
Following the Air France plane crash. I can’t help to wonder whether the black box even have any GPS tracking system. Or could it be easily replace with some sort of continous data transfer from the plane to remote servers of Air France. Or simple put multiple black box instead of just one and equip with remote GPS tracking on each one. A black box that could last a few hours without power. Charge with batteries if ever any misfortune happen. I was an avid fan of Plane Crash Investigation on Geographic Channel, and often the reasons of airplane crashes is never just one occurence of failures.
Oh my goodness. I don’t think I can watch a documentary like that. I’m already takut like mad about flying. I love travelling, but ironically, flying scares me silly. I will pray during takeoff!
Feel sad for the Air France folks. I cannot imagine being in their shoes at all!!
I agree, I was thinking the same exact thing, they should make black boxes with GPS systems. In light of the Air France, this is proven to be a great need.