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Originally Posted by Cochise
I don't think it's terribly uncommon in SE Asia for stolen passports to be used by migrant workers.
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This is true, though all the professed "experts" I heard seemed to indicate the four on the same plane was a bit odd.
And I second the earlier poster who can't understand why they don't have self-contained black boxes that transmit in real-time. Heck, how expensive would it be to install cameras on the wings, stabilizer, cockpit, and fuselage? Even if it isn't accessible to the public in real-time for privacy reasons, there could certainly be some repository you could database it to I would think.
If so we'd have a pretty good idea what happened, where it happened, and if there were survivors in the first few minutes at a cost of what? $1,000? Even if it was 10x that amount per year it could prevent another coordinated attack and/or help make planes safer for about $1 a ticket. I'd pay it.