Another Airplane and Black Box Missing

WASHINGTON - Feb. 7, 2025 - PRLog -- Authorities are desperately searching on both land and sea for a Bering Air flight believed to have crashed, but it's unclear if the debris can even be found, and/or if the aircraft's black box can be recovered.

But both tasks should have been made unnecessary by the simple application of existing technology, says Professor John Banzhaf of George Washington University, an MIT-trained engineer who holds two U.S. patents and researches and writes frequently about airline safety.

For example, more than ten years ago, when Malaysian flight MH370 went missing, and its flight data recorders were lost (and to this day have never been recovered), the professor pointed out that the precise location of its crash into the ocean, as well as all the data in its flight recorder, could have been known and recovered almost immediately by using small devices commonly found on small sea-going yachts called EPIRBs.  See, e.g.:
Locating Titan Should Have Been Quicker and Less Expensive; Why Were There No EPIRBs and/or Pingers on This Submersible?
A New 10-Years-Later Search for MH370 - But Why Not Prevent the Need * * * Already Existing Inexpensive Floatable EPIRBs Would Eliminate The Problem (http://prsync.com/george-washington-university/a-new--yea...)

More recently, he explained how, with existing technology, it would be possible for commercial aircraft to transmit, in real time, all of the data now stored only in their black boxes so that it can then be stored temporarily until the flight lands.

With such a simple and inexpensive solution, airline flight investigators would have access to this invaluable data immediately, rather than waiting for the block boxes to be recovered.

Even more importantly, they would have all this data - which could help prevent similar accidents in the future - even if the black box is never found and/or cannot be recovered (e.g. from very deep water).  See, e.g.:
REAGAN AP CRASH: Stop Waiting for Black Boxes (http://prsync.com/george-washington-university/reagan-ap-...)
Professor John Banzhaf on Utility of AI for Airplane Safety (https://wabcradio.com/episode/professor-john-banzhaf-on-utility-of-ai-for-airplane-safety-21-mins/)

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