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Idan LavianEnglish 101 Sec. JBMr. Daniel GomesUB Number: 50087728The Mysterious AirplaneAdvanced technology has been developed during the last decade to help us improve our searches for lost people. There have been a few times where the special surveillance aircraft and submarines have not been able to find missing people. This concern brings us to our current problem, which is the missing Malaysian airlines flight #370. The airplane was headed to Beijing, China, when suddenly the radar did not find any signal from the aircraft. The flight departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8th, 2014 and was scheduled to land at Beijing Capital International Airport. A little afterone hour after it took off, all communications systems have ceased and the transponder signal was lost. The crew was expected to contact air traffic control in Ho Chi Minh City as the aircraft passed into Vietnamese airspace, just north of the point where contact was lost. The captain of another aircraft attempted to reach the crew of Flight 370 using the International distress frequency. It was saidthat contact with the plane was established but it was only mumbling and static. Malaysia Airlines issued a media statement that contact with the flight had been lost by Malaysian air control. They stated that the government had initiated search and rescue operations but neither the crew nor the aircraft's onboard communicationsystems relayed a distress signal, indications of bad weather, or technical problems before the aircraft vanished from radar screen. Without the help of radar locating the plane, the searching countries continuetheir pursuit of the plane by exploring the Indian Ocean. One of the methods of exploring is listening to noises in the ocean that might sound like a plane sinking down to the ocean floor. There have been some odd sounds that scientists from Australia heard coming from the Indian Ocean that could lead to the missing airplane. “Mark Prior, an acoustics expert at the test ban organization headquarters, said that the sound might be consistent with an ocean impact or with some kind of a sealed, air-filled container that sank into the depths until the exterior water pressure caused it to crumple.” This method of exploration, along with other approaches, have brought the search closer to finding the plane but not close enough to bring this search to its end.Due to the lack of results the national governments, which were searching, are starting to give up on the missing plane. Instead, the search that was funded by 25 countries has been passed down to private companies. “The Australian navy vessel Ocean Shield, carrying the Bluefin 21 submersible drone hired by the U.S. Navy critical to the search, is already traveling back to Perth. The effort to find the plane will be later taken up by a private contractor no earlier than August.”In my humble opinion, national governments should not give up their search for the plane. They should continue searching until they find the location of the plane. Since we have started the search, we must finish by at least finding some evidence as to where the plane is located and the condition of the passengers.Leaving the search to private companies would decrease the amount of people searching for the plane, which could make the search much longer than expected. The 25 countries have the ability to find the missing plane and they can support the funds of the exploration, therefore they should remain part of the search. Finding the plane has great importance to finding out what happened.The black box of the plane record all conversations in the cockpit, it is the only device that could tell us what really happened on the plane while it was in the air. Based on civil aviation regulations, black box is an electronic recording device placed in an aircraft for the purpose of facilitating the investigation of aviation accidents and incidents. My father’s personal experience in aviation engineering, has shown that the black boxes that were made since 9/11 can clearly record any dialogue made in the cockpit, they are tested multiple times before being placed inside a plane. Once we find out what happened exactly on the plane, we could then improveairport security based on our lessons from this devastating experience. There have been many accidents involving planes in history that have caused airplane and airport security to improve. If we could find out the cause of the plane’s disappearance, we would learn from the mistake made and then airports and planes would become much safer for people and their families.For humanitarian reasons, we need to bring closure to the family members of the missing passengers. Their relatives have expressed extreme disappointment thatthey have not yet received definitive information regarding their missing loved ones. In fact, we don’t hear enough about further investigations. At this point we cancertainly understand the pain and anguish suffered by the friends and relatives of the missing passengers now that they are beginning to feel that the world has forgotten their loved ones. At the same time, it is important to point out that the search for plane 370 costs many millions of dollars for the 25 searching countries. This might be a reason as to why private companies are now taking up the search. Also, 239 passengers have being missing for over two months likely means that it is already too late to find any signs of life from the passengers. Based on the one of the sources, the aircraft has reached an unacceptable high height of 45,000 feet. In this height, no one can survive more than a minute besides who have been using portable oxygen masks. It might therefore be the time for the search to be called off. In conclusion, I feel that despite the tremendous cost involved, searches for missing people should always continue. It is our moral duty to investigate the possibility that there may be survivors both for their sakes and the sakes of their relatives. When it comes to human life, money is no object.Cited Pages“recorded noise might offer clues to missing plane” from New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-indian-ocean-recorded-noise-offers-clues-to-missing-plane.html?_r=0published June 2nd, 2014“ping area ‘discounted’ in search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370” from The Wall Street Journal


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