I love how the article compares a black box to an iPhone.
A flight data recorder is one of the worlds most indestructible pieces of technology, whose main function still works having been smashed into the land, undergone a fireball, or dropped to the bottom of the sea.
An iPhone breaks when you drop it from three feet and becomes little more than an expensive piece of junk (as do all modern, touchscreen smartphones).
Good luck getting a satellite or cell signal a few fathoms under the sea, near no cell towers.
I agree. The fact that they pulled a black box up from the bottom of the Atlantic after sitting on the bottom of the ocean for two years show how durable those things are.
A flight data recorder is one of the worlds most indestructible pieces of technology, whose main function still works having been smashed into the land, undergone a fireball, or dropped to the bottom of the sea.
An iPhone breaks when you drop it from three feet and becomes little more than an expensive piece of junk (as do all modern, touchscreen smartphones).
Good luck getting a satellite or cell signal a few fathoms under the sea, near no cell towers.