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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
There are suggestions that the plane turned back and would then have passed over land before more sea. Given that mobile phones still seem to be accessable it says to me that it may have ditched on land.
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Never say never, but really?
No chance IMO.
They're all gone
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Originally Posted by Hom3r
My question why are they not getting any signal from the Black boxes?
These are tough buggers, designed to withstand high impact speeds, battery life of 30 days minimum, though can be longer if conditions are right, plus they are activated when contact with water, or loss of power they switch to emergency mode
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Their range isn't massive though. You have to be in the general area of where the plane went down to have a chance of picking up the signal.
In this case, they have no idea where the plane is.
They found the air France black box after 2 years, and all the data was intact.
It will happen, they will find it. But I wouldn't try to pin a timescale on it.