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VII. PARTIAL LIST OF UNRECOVERED FLIGHT RECORDERS

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 demonstrates the limits of

the contemporary flight recorder technology. Physical possession of the flight

recorder device is necessary to help investigate the cause of an aircraft incident.

Considering the advances of modern communication technology commentators

called for flight recorders to be supplemented or replaced by a system for "live

streaming" data from the aircraft to the ground. This is indeed possible with today

state of the art communications technologies, including satellite technologies which

can be used to stream this data.

There has been many other instances where the black box was lost. Below is a

partial list of flight data recorders which were unrecoverable in the past:

PARTIAL LIST OF RECORDERS NEVER FOUND

DATE OF CRASH FLIGHT NO. AIRLINE PLANE TYPE PRESUMED LOCATION NOTES

1965-08-16 389 United Airlines Boeing 727-22 Lake Michigan of FDR recording
Chicago, Ill resting in media never
(249 ft) of water found..

1970-05-02 980 ALM Douglas DC-9-33CF Caribbean Sea Resting Neither
in 5,000ft of water Recorder was
found

1973-0722 816 Pan America Boeing 707-321B Pacific Ocean, off Neither
Papeete, Tahiti Resting Recorder was
in 2,300ft of water found

1975-09-30 240 Malev Tupolev TU-154 Lebanese shoreline Recorder was
Resting in between never found
2,000-3,000ft of water

1979-01-30 cargo Varig Aircraft PP-VLU BOEING Pacific Ocean, around Recorder was
200 kilometers from never found
Tokyo, Japan

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