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Old 02-02-2009, 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Esteban View Post
Maybe some old ideas can be useful... or re-invented!

For water crashes I think that the pilot can launch a kind of mini-misile with short range wich floating in water and emit code via radio at very low frequency. No many efforts the aviation company puts in these methods. The black box is only for record, but not is useful fo to locate the plane. When occurs in water is extremely difficult to locate.
Hi Esteban,
I think VLF underwater will be almost impossible to localise.They use ultrasound instead for the boxes.
Dye also will not work too well if the plane is deep , there is strong currents that will take it away, and something must bring it to the surface.
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