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  dirtyfratboy1 year, 7 months ago

  From the article:

  "We do not have the technology to retrieve the black boxes," Setio Rahardjo, chairman of the National Commission on Transport Safety told AFP news agency. "Assuming we have the funds, then we have to ask for a country who has sophisticated technology, such as the US," he added.

  Hopefully someone steps up and retrieves them, otherwise the entire process of finding them is made pointless.

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  geographer471 year, 7 months ago

  We should be assisting with this. There were three Americans on board. See

  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/25/ap/world

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  AshleeRose271 year, 7 months ago

  how deep is the ocean in that part?

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    Webreader1 year, 7 months ago

    Good point. The ocean is at its deepest in that part of the world. 6 miles off the Philipines. (The "Mindinao {sp?}Deep")

    Hopefully someone with the tools will bring these items up, though if multiple miles deep it may take awhile. Ahh technology. Within living memory these things were not done. The Titanic and other ship and plane wrecks had been virtualy ignored until the 1980s.

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      B1BLancer1 year, 7 months ago

      "Good point. The ocean is at its deepest in that part of the world. 6 miles off the Philipines. (The "Mindinao {sp?}Deep")

      I believe you're referring to the Challenger Deep, which is off the east coast of the Marianas Islands in the Marianas Trench.

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        Webreader1 year, 7 months ago

        TY. And of course, I meant 6 miles deep, not 6 miles off the Phillipines. That is a long string to dangle a modifier from! At least someone (with an appropriate name - kapnnemo) has an idea how deep those black boxes are. Now I wonder: How much pressure the cases can take?

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  DukeSkywalker1 year, 7 months ago

  Amazing that they could find those black boxes and not the ones of 9-11.

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    Webreader1 year, 7 months ago

    Things tend not to be vaporized in deep, and quite cold, water.

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  BLKEDU1 year, 7 months ago

  geographer47

  so we should help them only because there were americans on it?

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  Kapnnemo1 year, 7 months ago

  The water in the vicinity of the crash is 1900m (abt 6000 ft) deep.

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