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bombcar
on June 11, 2023
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Why aren't black box flight recorders better?
The black box doesn’t transmit its location. If they find it, it would/will tell you some of what happened, but if you sink it in the Mariana Trench and they can’t find it, you’ve “won”.
kube-system
on June 11, 2023
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The black box can also transmit its location, albeit only after the plane hits the ocean:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_locator_beacon
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