I remember once looking into one of the companies who made flight recorders, and they proudly talked about "the time we had to retrieve the data from one of the black boxes on one of the 9/11 flights, while a government agent watched us work to ensure that we didn't do anything out-of-the-ordinary with the black box" in a video they did with the local news network as a puff piece for the company.
I can only imagine the ideas and emotions that would go through that technician's mind if someone had told them that, for the past ~16 years, the official story was that three of the four black boxes "weren't even located from the crash sites, let alone had their data retrieved".
Only one other time in the history of aviation were the flight recorders not recovered from a flight the crashed ( not counting ocean crashes ). It was in the Andes Mountains, in a location too remote and dangerous for recovery.
On the ocean crashes, I have heard a few news reports about some new kind of "deployable recorder" meant to separate from the aircraft in the event of a water landing/crash, where it will then float on its own little raft until the proper authorities can search for it and grab it, which means that even those crashes might soon see all of their flight recorder data recovered.
The entire rudder fin is buoyant and tears off under stress. I know all airbus have it, and boeing likely has for the past three decades. Mh370 wasn't found because the chinks shot it and plucked all the debris from the water...ya know china and their political dissidents.
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Alpha_Voat_Protecter ago
I remember once looking into one of the companies who made flight recorders, and they proudly talked about "the time we had to retrieve the data from one of the black boxes on one of the 9/11 flights, while a government agent watched us work to ensure that we didn't do anything out-of-the-ordinary with the black box" in a video they did with the local news network as a puff piece for the company.
I can only imagine the ideas and emotions that would go through that technician's mind if someone had told them that, for the past ~16 years, the official story was that three of the four black boxes "weren't even located from the crash sites, let alone had their data retrieved".
Oh_Well_ian ago
Only one other time in the history of aviation were the flight recorders not recovered from a flight the crashed ( not counting ocean crashes ). It was in the Andes Mountains, in a location too remote and dangerous for recovery.
Alpha_Voat_Protecter ago
On the ocean crashes, I have heard a few news reports about some new kind of "deployable recorder" meant to separate from the aircraft in the event of a water landing/crash, where it will then float on its own little raft until the proper authorities can search for it and grab it, which means that even those crashes might soon see all of their flight recorder data recovered.
ShineShooter ago
The entire rudder fin is buoyant and tears off under stress. I know all airbus have it, and boeing likely has for the past three decades. Mh370 wasn't found because the chinks shot it and plucked all the debris from the water...ya know china and their political dissidents.
Alpha_Voat_Protecter ago
Also because they initially lied to the investigators and gave them a false bearing of the plane's final route.