With regard to the missing MH370 flight one wonders why the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) when they reputedly works to ensure that all air travel is safe, allow passenger carrying aeroplanes to have the facility in the plane to switch off all communications. One can understand such facilities being there in non-passenger carrying war planes and planes doing some stealth work. However, aeroplanes carrying fare paying passengers should be mandated not to be allowed to have this facility anywhere in the plane.
Although it may give some commercial advantage to an airplane company to offer a system in which the Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), and other communication facilities to be turned off when desired, as this would then allow the plane to be used for purposes other than to just carry passengers, it should never have been allowed.
Hence, the FAA and the IATA should not turn a blind-eye to the dangers posed by offering this facility, which brings along with it all sorts of suspicions of criminal activity.
Further, passenger carrying planes still having only the decades old Black Box, in this present age of cloud computing, is quite surprising. Is this also to enable these planes to be easily used for other purposes than to purely carry fare paying passengers?
Although it may give some commercial advantage to an airplane company to offer a system in which the Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), and other communication facilities to be turned off when desired, as this would then allow the plane to be used for purposes other than to just carry passengers, it should never have been allowed.
Hence, the FAA and the IATA should not turn a blind-eye to the dangers posed by offering this facility, which brings along with it all sorts of suspicions of criminal activity.
Further, passenger carrying planes still having only the decades old Black Box, in this present age of cloud computing, is quite surprising. Is this also to enable these planes to be easily used for other purposes than to purely carry fare paying passengers?
