As I type this blog post on October 27, the largest mystery in recent memory is still unsolved - what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? There are endless theories swirling around the media to answer this question yet there still is no concrete answer. Here is one article currently considered breaking news - remember this is as of March 20th.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/20/world/asia/missing-plane-q-and-a/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
How is this whole tragedy being effected positively and negatively by advances in technology?
What would be different if this mystery disappearance had occurred 50 years ago? 100 years ago?
Search and read a few more articles on this topic. What do you think happened to the aircraft?
Another cool article - http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/28/world/antarctic-explorer-notebook/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
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ReplyDeleteThis situation with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappearing has had a hugely negative impact on the morale of the technological community. We as a race have come so far with the advances of technology; however, there are still instances were we are reminded that we are not invincible. This situation I believe was one of those grim occurrences. This situation would have a really different reaction back in the past. Back in the 60's if this had happened, people would be more likely to play it off because it was more common for accidents because we were not as advanced in our technology then. I think the aircraft went down in an electric storm that played with the instrumentation, causing the navigation to go haywire, making them crash and not be found.
ReplyDeleteWe have will all this new technology that helps us find things faster, like communicating with another country. We have new satellites with some crazy good imaging, all the new technology in the search and rescue planes and helicopters, or even the flight simulators. They have worked up so many different scenarios of what could have actually happened. Some negatives are with all this new technology we have so so so many leads, that we don’t even know where to go with it.
ReplyDeleteIf this would have happened 50 or 100 years ago, we would be no where compared to the search we have done now. They didn’t have the technology like we do now. For example, all the tracking and satellite imaging we use today. Even though we barely know anything about this tragedy, we know a heck of a lot more than we would know back then.
I think the pilots purposely lost contact and turned everything off and purposely crashed into the middle of the ocean.
The search for the flight is being positively affected by technology through satellite imaging. This is how debris was spotted in the ocean that could possibly be debris from the airplane. It is negatively affected by technology because people are outraged and think that nothing is being done to find the plane. I've seen many posts on social media and a lot of these posts have to do with conspiracy theories and that the governments are hiding what happened to the plane.
ReplyDeleteIf this happened 50 or 100 years ago I don't think we would have any chance at finding the aircraft at all. Back then we had very limited sources of technology to aid in finding the plane.
I honestly think that the plane just had technical issues of some kind and crashed. There would be no reason for a terrorist group to attack a plane full of 239 "normal" people, and I think the conspiracy theories are also ridiculous. The whole thing seems to be tragic accident to me.
this whole tragedy is being effected positively by advances in technology because using satellites researchers can see floating debris in the oceans and this could possibly lead to finding flight 370. Technology is negatively affecting this tragedy because as a family member of one of the missing passengers, hearing that researches have found pieces of floating debris would be a relief to hear but then hearing that it’s just garbage and not part of an air plane would be very degrading and disappointing. I would want to know whether my loved one is dead or alive regardless. If this had happened 50 years ago I’m sure technology could be blamed for being unstable or unreliable- but in 2014 a plane completely disappearing without a trace is bizarre. September 11th was the first BIG terrorist attack that shocked the nation and obviously that was more recent than 50 years ago. If this had happened 50 or 100 years ago nobody would have believed that it could be an act of terrorism but today it is a possibility.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think that the flight either ran out of gas and nose dived DEEP into the ocean and just sunk thousands of feet to the bottom OR the plane was hijacked and crashed into the ocean. I think that the pilot could have had something to do with it because you don’t just lose connection to a flight- they must have turned off their radar and all transferrable signals. I read through this article about finding planes in the ocean (http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/world/asia/malaysia-flight-370-ocean-floor/) and under the “How deep is deep?” section, Dr. Jules Jaffe stated that “[finding a plane in the ocean] is like an ant in a football field”. "It's just a different way of thinking underwater. People think on land how they can see 100 miles. In the deep ocean, if you can see 100 feet you're doing pretty good.” Later on in the article it states, “when an airliner goes missing in the vast ocean, how little we know about so much of the Earth becomes clear”- this is so true. The ocean is so mysterious to humans. I 100% that the plane is in the ocean and I will be shocked if it is ever found.
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/570821/20141027/mh370-search-found-missing-malaysia-airlines-flight.htm#.VE-tCE10yUk
ReplyDeleteI think that the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappearing is a terrible accident that greatly impacts everyone. It negatively effects the morale and the technology because we have come so far with it. If this happened 50 years ago, it wouldn't be as big of a deal, because accidents happened all the time back then. I hope we find some closer soon!
Positively it is being effected by advances in technology because if we didn't have technology we wouldn't be flying around in helicopters and have GPS systems in our hands that maybe have an idea of where the plane have landed. Also with technology, we knew that the plane went down. Negatively - With all of the technology, there has been so many explanations with the crash. There are too many leads to what have had happen. This is why technology is bad when things like this happen. Rumors just start.
ReplyDelete50-100 years ago if this would've happened it would have been interesting on what they would've done. Maybe they didn't have planes or helicopters back then to be able to do the research and investigation like they could do now. there are tons of little things that we have now that can help the situation but 50-100 years ago they didn't have those little things to help the situation. What do I think happened to the aircraft? To be honest, there are so many things that could've happened to it, but the most common one people are talking about and to me it makes the most sense is that it was hijacked and it did run out of gas in the middle of the ocean.
This tragedy is all around awful. I can't wrap my head around the fact that there are still no answers. The amount of technology we have today should be able to do something about this. From what I have read, it seems that they are just using satellite images and the keen eye to try and spot debris, can't we do anything more than that? I think we can, but we are choosing not too. Why? I am not sure, but the amount of conspiracy's about the American government doing things like this such as 9/11 is outrageous, but totally believable. I don't necessarily think the government had done it, but I think they knew about it. Why else wouldn't they have tried to help sooner? If it wasn't the government, I think it was terrorism.
ReplyDeleteIf this happened 50 years ago, or even 100 years ago, there would be no hope. I mean if we can't figure it out in this generation that is booming with technology how would we have done it fifty years ago when televisions were just coming out, not even in color.
Maybe it was a technical glitch and maybe it did run out of gas, but I personally refuse to believe that. I hope that the passengers are all safe and having the time of their life on some warm weathered Island making cocktails and singing campfire songs.
I don't know very much about the tragedy but from what I've read and heard it just doesn't make sense as to why we cant find this plane. Technology like social media has a negative impact on the situation because it allows false accusations to spread. The positives of technology are they play a huge role in finding the aircraft, for example satellite images. If this was to happen 50 to 1 00 years ago it would be so much different. We would have heard about it a lot later. The information probably wouldn't have been as accurate, and if they cant find the plane now with the technology we have, there is no way they are finding it 100 years ago.
ReplyDeleteI think some positives that could come out of this is better GPS or radar tracking of the airplanes, better communication systems on the plane, and I also think that multiple countries working together is a positive thing. The negative things is it causes mistrust between the people and airlines which can affect traveling, it shows that maybe their technology wasn't as "up to date" as it should of been, and it shows that if other planes go missing then they might not be able to find those planes too.
ReplyDeleteIf this happened 50 years ago, the plane would just be gone. There might of been radar (I'm not sure) but then their searching equipment wouldn't be that advanced. If this happened 100 years ago, I believe the plane would just be gone and there would be little to no searching for it or even understanding where it might of went.
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/570821/20141027/mh370-search-found-missing-malaysia-airlines-flight.htm#.VE-sg8J0z4g
This website says that parts of the airplane should wash on shore of Indonesia. I think that maybe the plane got hijacked by terrorists and they made them shut off their communication and then either they crashed or they took the plane to wherever they were from.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26503141
This website gives a timeline of where the plane was and where they think it might be.
With the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappearing in thin air leaves everyone with questions on where it is. Many different type of tactics with technology are being used to find it. The way that all the countries looking for this flight have used there resource's in technology would not be the same if this happened thirty years ago. They are using satellite imagery to look in the Indian ocean to try a find an object, and have found something that they think has a similar size as the 370 aircraft. The negative part about the technology is that the aircraft as a pinger on it to track where it is. Sadly this is not useful to them because it only lasts 30 days after the crash and is not able to be read in warm waters with different temperatures going through to the surface. If this happened 50 or else 100 years ago no one would be able to figure this out, due to not having any technology that we have today. This could be exactly like the Titanic, but with a smaller and less communication. Where the plan could possibly be is far past where it should of been. EVen the area where the plan could be is a low traffic for ships or plan to fly over. I believe that it is lost in sea.
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DeleteThe advances in technology are effecting this situation in a very positive way in the help of finding the missing ship. Without this technology we wouldn't be as close as we are to knowing what might have happened that day. These advances in technology can also be negative in the eyes of the victims family by all of the horrific stories that are imagined by everyone who is involved in the story. This story is also un answered so it is still heavily broadcasted in many different ways. If this were to of happened 50 years ago it would have been broadcasted in the sixties. It still would have been heavily broadcasted through the television newspapers and radios. But they don't have nearly the amount of resources for communication or to solve this mystery like we have today. 100 years ago would have been a completely different story and more of an extremely far fetched idea to stumbling over what had happened this day the plane went down. I think that the aircraft is sunken somewhere from running into problems most likely gas, in the ocean somewhere. Probably somewhere in the ocean near Australia.
ReplyDeleteI think 50 to 100 years ago we wouldn’t be as far into the search as we are now because of all the technology we have today. I know they don’t have many leads into what happened to flight 370 but I think we are a couple steps ahead than they would have been years ago. We have things like satellites and ways of tracking people or airplanes. A positive with all the technology is that we can keep searching and possibly find clues as to what happened. Also they can keep the world involved in new updates and what’s going on with the search. A negative is that with all the technology we have how come we haven’t found flight 370 yet? I think the airplane landed in the ocean and sank but I don’t know much about this topic. I want to read more articles and maybe my opinion will change about what happened like it could have been plans of a terrorist attack.
ReplyDeleteIn this article they talk about how they were able to get a step closer to finding the direction the airplane was headed because they traced a phone all
http://online.wsj.com/articles/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-search-phone-call-offers-new-clue-1409201478
This event has been a living nightmare for a lot of people, from the people inside the aircraft to the people with loved ones on the aircraft. Nobody truly knows what happened the day it went missing but we are moving in the right direction thanks to technology. With our advanced technology we can maybe come a little closer to solving this mystery. For example there have been satellite photos being taken of some debris in the indian ocean that they possibly believe could be the aircraft. A negative effect technology has here is the fact that we lost all communication due to technological failure and now these people are lost.
ReplyDeleteIf this disappearance would have taken place 50-100 years ago we maybe wouldn't even be talking about this still because we wouldn't have any idea at all about what is going on and we would just except this event as a tragedy and move on but now we have technology so now were not gunna stop until we have an answer. I think the aircraft crashed and the aircraft is long gone and might not be found ever again.
what this tragedy means is how positively in this technology to the people who if trying to find this plane. What i read is that they think it got hit by a meteorite.
ReplyDeleteMalaysia Airlines Flight 370 incident has positively affected technology by the government continuing to innovate on making technology more advanced to quickly find the plane. The negative affects of this is that society is beginning to question the legitimacy of the technology used. Obviously the technology being used is not advanced enough to find the plane and is setting the case back, with no new leads. If this incident happened 50-100 years ago, then the plane would still have not been found today, unless it washed up on shore somewhere. Reason being is that they did not have technology back then to even navigate a plane, let alone find one. I believe that the plane landed in a remote island with no human population or crashed at see near Australia.
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This case with the 370 flight incident in Malaysia, has been a negative repercussion for the technology community. As its credibility has dropped, to an extent, on an international level towards where can technology help in a mysterious case like this one. For many people, it has been an “unacceptable” circumstance, as Tony Tyler from the Air transportation Association mentioned. However, besides many suppositions, the story continues to question on the, yet, unknown factors of the ocean. With so many given reasons for the disappearance, we still expect more information from today’s technology, at least some sort of clue about what happened to the flight 370. As we mentioned in class, if this scenario would have happened 50 or 100 years ago, there wouldn’t be questionings or expectancies from technology about what happened to the aircraft.
ReplyDeleteFor me, the conspiracy of a “terrorist attack” has weakened quite a bit at this point, as I believe it was more a case of human failure, which its evidence have been lost or hidden in the vast ocean.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/04/01/297826146/global-airlines-call-for-better-tracking-method-after-mh370
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/03/25/294390476/can-a-250-year-old-mathematical-theorem-find-a-missing-plane
Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 was a terrible tragedy. It has put a negative effect on technology because it is so advanced but still can't find the location of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. If this would have happened 50 years ago, it wouldn't have been as big of deal as it is today. They didn't have the technologies back then that we have today. In my personal opinion I think that it was a high jacking and the high jackers crashed the plane in the sea. I think this because there were so many fake passports uncovered after the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 went missing.
ReplyDeleteI think that it did disappear from the sky i mean where else would it be its not in the water there no clue to what happen to it so that just leads to that Airlines Flight 370. But if it did though they would still be talking about till this day.
ReplyDeleteI believe the plane was hijacked and rerouted but not in an attack like 9/11 but as a psychological attack (the people are almost definitely dead despite this). It has worked causeing people who have relied on technology in the fields of aviation and those who use it to locate large missing planes a lot of hardship, discrediting and/or making them distrust their own fields.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this would happen in the 60's and it couldnt have really happened in 1914.