On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Kim Holburn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why are they using flash drives that sink? > Because creating something that is able to withstand the forces of a crash, and then have sufficient battery power to "ping" for several months (or more), which is also capable of floating, is extremely difficult... And of course, that presumes that it was able to be detached/ejected from the fuselage itself in some safe way, otherwise even if the black box floated it'd still end up on the bottom of the ocean. Scott _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
