Breaking news! An Airbus A320 with 142 passengers and six crewmembers onboard reportedly crashed in Digne region, southern France. The jet, which belonged to Germanwings Airlines, was flying from Barcelona to Düsseldorf.
Why is it they never know exactly where the plane went down. They can pinpoint my car within a foot (OK maybe not a foot but you get the point) of where I am at. I just don't get it.
YOU can pinpoint your car to within a yard but unless your GPS is reporting its position, no one else can.
Is it that hard for planes to report 24/7? You can track cars with $30 devices.
I am near DUS now any point on going there?
I wonder how http://www.flightradar24.com/ gets their data?
From radar data.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32030270Black box found, no distress signals sent
I thought I read in the news previously that a distress signal was received approx. 30 minutes before they lost radar contact. That was misinformation?
The plane did not send out a distress signal, officials said. Earlier reports of a distress call, quoting the French interior ministry, referred to a message from controllers on the ground.
So what is missing then? Radar transponders that can't be turned off?
Is it my imagination or have there been lately an unusually higher rate of mid-flight commercial plane crashes r"l?
+1Maybe the old guys should chime in. Is this more than it used to be?
