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Originally posted by MaRy
But then there would be debris and the black box would emit signals
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If it hit the ocean mostly intact there would be less debris than if it blew up mid-air, thus harder to find. The black is emitting signals right now, but the fact it's probably under miles of ocean means it's harder to pick up.
With the Air France flight, they found two bodies and various items from the aircraft *five* days after it crashed, and found a piece of the aircraft on the sixth day after it crashed. They had a submarine trying to pick up the blackbox signals but couldn't because of the depth. They only retrieved the black box on the fourth and final search 23 months after the crash. Not much debris (apart from bodies and various items) were found from the plane, and that was over numerous weeks.
Y'all just need to stop calling UFO's and hijacks and JFK type shxt. It's hard to find an aircraft after it's plummeted into the ocean, in the middle of the night, and having no real idea where it actually came down. There's a good chance they'll find it though - if they found the Air France flight in the middle of the Atlantic, they'll find this.