Pakistan? Oh, right...what the Dear Leader calls Pock-eee-stonn.
Yeah, I think I'd trust a random crook on the street more than those clowns!
And I still say it is in the drink somewhere.
Regarding emergency transmitters...
In terms of finding the aircraft, if it crashed in the middle of the South China Sea, any emergency transmitters on board would emit frequencies that travel well through the air but not very well through water. The black boxes emit a sound signal that travels well under water but the distance the sound travels is also limited when you consider the vastness of the South China Sea.http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoglia/2014/03/10/why-cant-the-malaysian-air-boeing-777-be-found/Then again, maybe BFH stumbled into the answer...
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=229310Heh! We needed a humor break.
Back to serious business.
Another question - most of these passengers are Chinese...what are they doing? Or do they not care since they got plenty more where they came from? Silence from Beijing is deafening.