Plane search vs spending the money combatting world hunger and disease

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by monster

I'm having a hard time with the hunt for the missing Malaysian plane.

That's the media playing with the news. You determine the plane went down, everyone's dead, end of story.

The people actually looking for the plane don't give a shit about the passengers, they know they're dead. What they want is the answer to how and why the plane crashed. Boeing and the NTSB take their responsibility to explain every crash as best they can, in order to prevent more crashes, very seriously. What they can determine from the wreckage, over and above black box data, is quite amazing. But it takes wreckage and time, sometimes years.

Other nations are willing to help as best they can, because their citizens fly these same aircraft. I'm pretty sure the people flying on the other 1600 or so 777-200 and 200ERs, are curious too.