[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Nedusa

I'm amazed anyone has found the Black Box Flight recorder under the Indian Ocean.

The signals on these boxes are local signals ie max 50 mile radius, you have to know roughly where the plane crashed ie have a proven debris field and then locating the signal from the recorders is a matter of time (providing the signal is still broadcasting).

But without a proven debris field ie no wreckage found and proved to be the missing flight what do rescue teams have to go on other than millions of square miles of Indian Ocean.

It would be like looking for a needle in a Haystack in a field of Haystacks in hundreds of fields of haystacks.

I cannot believe they have found these signals without knowing where the plane actually crashed.

Maybe the authorities know a bit more than they are making public.

I agree.