Big question about positioning technology after the AirAsia crash

Why in this age, we still have to find a way to recover the black box of the plane as the only way to know what happened to the missing planes?

You don't have to be an expert, you can ask yourself: why with the current technology, an aircraft can go missing in the sky, making people miserable looking by plane, by ship, instead of a state-of-the-art technology?

It is a question, also a sensation, expressing a deep loss of confidence in current positioning technology, according to CNN.

With the current technology, even an iPhone is missing, it can be used to find the exact location. So why does a 67-ton heavy machine disappear so that people are so confused and forced to radiate all directions on the vast ocean to search?

AirAsia Airlines' failure to see an aircraft lost in the sky is considered a failure of this industry.(Photo: Ibtimes)

'Why is it easier to find an iPhone than find an airplane,' said a Twitter user, asking a question. Certainly, there will be thousands of such questions appearing on social networks. In a society where people can navigate everything, from map applications to your location to display advertising information correctly on a web browser, they cannot locate a device. Flying in distress.

Why in this age, we still have to find a way to recover the black box of the plane as the only way to know what happened to it? The flight data should have been transmitted directly to the cloud in real time.

The disappearance of AirAsia aircraft on December 28 was the second time this year, a plane suddenly missing. The fragment from the Airbus A320 was found, the bodies of several victims were also found. However, the case of MH370 flight is not so lucky. 10 months after the incident, there has not been any new information about this aircraft.

At that time, Jim Hall - the former director of the US National Traffic Safety Department, called for an improvement in aircraft tracking capabilities but did not receive any significant consensus.

The aviation industry has invested billions of dollars in safety features, but tracking real-time aircraft data has yet to be noticed.

Passengers, relatives of those in distress are those who suffer the greatest pain and insecurity.(Photo: CBC)

'Millions of us can be located immediately through technology on a mobile handset, but a 136-ton Boeing 777 aircraft with 239 people on it completely disappears from the surface of the Earth. ' Hall wrote about the case of MH370. 'NASA has the ability to photograph stars for billions of light years, but we have to predict where this plane might be in danger.'

'Real-time tracking technology is available. We do not have to wait to develop it. The aircraft should send data continuously to the air traffic stations , 'said Mary Schiavo, CNN aviation analyst. However, so far, this technology has not been available at major airports.

Cost is the biggest barrier, said Seth Kaplan, manager of Airline Weekly. Airlines have lobbied the government to contribute a portion of the money to equip the new technology because it is not just a matter of aviation but also national security.

Maybe, governments will agree to support, the problem is that money will not be poured out as soon as expected passengers, Kaplan said.