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Veteran space/aviation/tech reporter Miles O'Brien speaks with me about the role of technology in the recent Air France crash.
He answ...
(This Boing Boing Video episode made possible by WEPC.com).
Veteran space/aviation/tech reporter Miles O'Brien speaks with me about the role of technology in the recent Air France crash.
He answers a number of questions posed here on Boing Boing by commenters on our previous episodes: how "black boxes" work, why they're not built to float, whether they would be more effective if they streamed data constantly while in use, and whether more training in the "lower-tech" aspects of piloting could have helped.
Since we taped this two-way conversation on Friday, recovery teams off the coast of Brazil have recovered some 16 bodies, and wreckage from the crash.
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I liked the comment regarding the black box. Maybe it should be designed to actually seperate itself from the the plane in such circumstances. You didn't mention that two Spanish pilots, who were behind the Air France flight but much higher. They saw a bright white flash, and then watched it fall straight down.
This is one of the most complete explanation i have heared so far about this aircrash. However, compared with the aircrash that happened on Dominican Republic involving a Boeing 757 from a Eastern Europe Airline where the pitotubes at the port side where supposed to be stuck with debri of any kind and so forth and the same thing happened.. sad
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