As I type this blog post on March 20th 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?
Flight 370 is being positively effected by technology because searchers are able to communicate with each other and use advanced equipment to help find the flight. But negatives to technology advancement in the search for the missing plane are that people are posting their thoughts on social media and word can spread faster with information that isn't true.
ReplyDeleteIf this tragedy had occurred any number of years ago, the search would not be as progressed as it is now. They still don't have very much information or answers, but they are getting closer and closer everyday thanks to advancements in technology and search methods. Based on the CNN news article, I think that the flight did run out of gas and must not have had backup fuel to last them the flight.
I agree that the tragedy would not have been pursued and I guess it is just a mystery.
DeleteI agree that because of technology we are slowing getting closer to finding out the true reason to the wreck and what caused the fight to go missing in the first place. Without technology we would not be able to locate anything. It would be hard to find a place to start without using technology.
DeleteFuel definitely seems like the most prevalent issue in all the stories.
DeleteFlight 370 is being effected positively by advances in technology because they are using satellites, planes, and ships to figure out what happened to the plane. The negative part would be that some of the information that was found like the satellite images was kept secret from the media, causing people to think otherwise and posting negative stuff on the internet.
ReplyDeleteIf this tragedy had occurred 50 years ago, the chances of the plane being found would be low and might never be found if it happened 100 years ago.
According to CNN article, the plane transponder stopped communicating at 1:21am and it was supposed to transmit at 1:37am but it didn't. I think the plane was hijacked because turning off the transmitters is the smartest move in the case of a terrorist attack. Worst case scenario, the plane was hijacked and bombed by a terrorist and the ashes fell in the water which explains why no one knows what happened to the plane.
I agree that 50 years ago it would be really hard to try and track of find a plane because of the lack of technology.
DeleteI am also getting the feeling that it was terrorism!
DeleteIt would be difficult to find the plane 50 years ago and the theory about terrorism is a good one.
DeleteFlight 370 is making use of many modern technologies to uncover what happened. If this event were to have happened 50 or 100 years ago it would be left unsolved or be considered something supernatural as technology has bettered our understanding of these things. Not only does modern technology allow us to follow flight patterns and attempt to discern what happened to the flight but also to determine whether or not the plane was hijacked, I think that technology will surely prevail in discovering what happened to the Malaysian flight.
ReplyDeleteYeah if this would have happened so many years ago, no one would be doing anything.
DeleteI agree that 50 years ago everyone would have thought it was supernatural.
DeleteI am just going to be honest this is the first time of me hearing about it today. The positive advantage to this is that we have the technology to find the aircraft. The negative is that we do not have the technology to find out exactly what happened. If this tragedy happened 50-100 years ago their would not be this big of an investigation set out to find out what happened. Who knows 50-100 years ago we would have never found where the plane crashed if it was not for parts floating. I truthfully think it was a conspiracy. I heard today that the transmitter was shut off manually. I think it was terrorism.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the negative aspect. its weird how its been 2 weeks now and there's still no knowledge of what happened to the plane. We need new technologies that could locate exact coordinates of a plane.
DeleteThat's pretty odd if the transmitter was shut off. Is that verified that it was manually turned off?
DeleteIt'd be pretty interesting to see where some of the conspiracy theories go.
DeleteThe positive aspects of the advancements in technology are pretty obvious and include the vessels we are using to search for the plan and other gadgets like the transmitter buoy used to map drift patterns. The negative aspects could be that the pilots relied to heavily on equipment and if it failed cause them to get off course. 50 or 100 years ago this could have been a huge disaster with less technology to search for the planes or could of not happened at all due to the plane not going where it should not have. I honestly think the aircraft hit ocean somewhere and sank. mainly because of the vast amount of ocean they had and how little land there is our there.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I think that the plane ended up sinking.
DeleteI agree with the point that the pilots relied to heavily on the equipment.
DeleteI think that the positive aspect of the technology is that they have equipment and GPS to know about where the plane wrecked and what could have possibly caused it. I think that the technology is advanced to the point that they should be able to find out where the flight is within the first little while. I think that the negative effect is that people (pilots, flight crews, and flight coordinators) base so much of their jobs on technology based equipment. I think that 50/100 years ago this could have strongly effected the outcomes and flight trackers of a missing flight. It would be a lot harder to keep track of things without technology. I read an article today that states that they found parts of the plane in the ocean. I believe that something happened to cause the plane to land in the water and it sank causing it impossible to track the flight due to the water damage.
ReplyDeleteYea I think the plane sank in the water too.
DeleteI've been surprised that even with our advances in technology they still haven't found the plane. You would think there would be satellite images or some other way to track it and they could have found it by now.
DeleteThe utilization of technology during this horrible event is absolutely critical. If this would have happened 50 or a 100 years ago it would have been chalked up to another great mystery of our history, similar to Amelia Earhart's flight around the world. I'm surprised that all they have found is debris but I don't think this would have been possible without the use of radar and G.P.S, as well as all of the advanced technology utilized on the vessels and aircraft that are searching for it.
ReplyDeleteFrom my understanding of the current news there still isn't a reason of why the airplane crashed. I'm sure there would be large number of people assuming terrorism, it could potentially be with the current political situation of South East Asia.
I agree with the statement saying if it was over 50 years ago it would just go under the mystery column.
DeleteAgreed I think this would be just another unsolved mystery that we would possibly read about in history books.
DeleteI think that the positives of the technology is that it makes it possible to track the plane with satellites and images from the satellites. With all the technology that we have today it makes it that we are more likely to find this missing flight. The down side to this is that people become so reliant on it that if it even malfunctions there will be a great deal of problems because we would be so used to having the technology do it for us. 50 to 100 years ago it would be near impossible to even come close to locating this plane because the technology back them was not anywhere near what it is today. I saw that they found debris around Australia. It is a little progress, but there is still a long ways to go. I also read that there was a possibility of it being a terrorist attack.
ReplyDeleteI think that having a terrorist attack would put a twist on a lot of the stories that are out there. It would really open the eyes of people.
DeleteI agree that 50-100 years ago we wouldn't have been able to carry out anything close to the search that has been going on so far. I think back then most people would have given up that the plane was lost and they would never be able to find it.
DeleteI agree with the 50-100 years statement. No way we would even be having this conversation right now.
DeleteMe three, I agree with the whole 50 to a 100 years ago this not being a huge global search as it is today.
DeleteI think that having satellites that are able to take images and to spot different objects on earth is something that is very positive to think about. Another positive thing is that they have created water buoys to tract the drift of the debris and the direction it can travel. One thing that is negative is that fact that there are a lot of people that become so dependent on technology to tell them when and where and how or even how much. In some cases if technology were to fail, people would not know what to do with out it. If this were to have happened a long time ago, it would be almost impossible to find because of the advances in technology. I think that there could have been something wrong with the plane that the pilots had to attempt to crash land in the ocean. In doing so, I believe that the plane then sank.
ReplyDeleteI agree that there could have been something wrong with the plane that led them to crash land. I wonder how long it will be before they actually find out.
DeleteShawna, great ideas! the water buoys are being used wisely and this will further the investigation of the plane!
DeleteThe biggest positives in technology now will hopefully help the search teams come up discovering the aircraft. The advancement helps rescue teams to gauge the speed of a current, helps them track the same path as the airline, and also helps them to be able to fly so low to the water without experiencing problems themselves. The negative that comes with this is that although they have came up with a device that gauges the speed of a current it is still not something that will help find the wreckage. If this mystery disappearance happened 50 to 100 years ago I think that it would be a lost cause. The advancement in technology has come so far since then. The technology that they would have had 50 to 100 years ago would not have be able to even calculate the speed of the water current. Many of the articles are mentioning satellites that can take images and help spot the wreckage. With my personal feelings on this story I feel like something happened with the plane that was not spotted until it was to late.
ReplyDeleteI agree that some information is being kept from the public. I understand why they aren't telling us everything but they at least need to let the families know something to help them grieve.
DeleteNick, great job with where you stand on this situation. I too also believe that information is being kept from the public!
DeleteIn my opinion there are both negative and positive aspects to this and other situations. The pilots of the plane did probably rely on technology to get where they were going but obviously that didn't work. the people trying to find the debris of the plane are also relying on technology to find everything. Yes it is helpful to have but we cant totally depend on it. What about diving and drifting to find debris? We need something else to find out what happened. The circumstances do leave us with mainly technology to use but maybe we need something more.
ReplyDelete50 to 100 years ago this all would be different. The weather would be different and so would the tech. We wouldn't have all the options we do today on finding out information. We also wouldn't know that much about planes and satellites back then. We advance in technology in such a short amount of time it is hard to imagine that only fifty years back there was still a lot we didn't know.
Other articles say that there has been debris and that the satellites have spotted images of it. I cant help wondering why it took so long for that information to get out. What exactly are they hiding? Did they send the plane off knowing something minor was wrong? Also they say it wasn't fully fueled, why on earth take that small of a risk? I am certainly glad I haven't been on a plane in 13 years and I don't plan on going on one any time soon.
I agree completely on the positive and negative affects of this crash! I think that this will help us advance bigtime!
DeleteAdvances in technology have had a positive impact on this event by giving search teams technology such as satellites and and underwater radar that can help them hopefully find the missing plane. A negative effect of advanced technology is the fact that false reports about the incident can be easily generated and spread like wildfire. I have personally seen a lot of these on social media lately. If this had occurred 50 or 100 years ago I don't think it would have been as big of a deal as it is today. Back then terrorism wasn't as big of an issue so some people might not be as nervous about it, also the fact that there was no social media where news could spread in seconds, and the lack of advanced technology that would have prevented the search from going very far. I think that this incident could have been an act of terrorism, or something like that. It just seems like if it crashed we should have seen some wreckage by now, and the fact that they plane transmitters were shut off seems a little fishy to me.
ReplyDeleteI think that this affected the advances in technology a lot both negatively and positively. I think it affected it negatively because it shows us as a human race that a lot of the time advances in technology will fail and we sometimes won't be able to communicate between each other all the time. I also thinks it affects it positively because now we know what we need to do to be able to help our society. Obviously we just can't lose communication with our planes and let them die down or else. Then we couldn't help out possible survivors, or even figure out if the plane landed on land somewhere. If this happened 50 years ago it would've been much different. We wouldn't have even been close to finding anything that looked like a plane crash because we wouldn't have even had enough satellites to see enough of the world. And I don't think this event couldn't have even occur 100 years ago. Were there even any planes that could even attempt to fly at that distance? I don't think so. And even if a plane did crash that far into the ocean that long ago I think that they wouldn't even have a chance to live. And I personally like to think that the aircraft got adducted by aliens or something cool like that, but I bet it just lost communication and crashed before they could get it again.
ReplyDeleteI think this whole incident is being mostly affected positively by the new technology that has been used to help track down what has happened to the plane and all its passengers. Negatively the only thing I could think of is maybe some of the ridiculous ideas that some people think happened to the plane.
ReplyDeleteHad it disappeared 50 years ago, I feel it would take years for it to be found and probably awhile for it to even become global news. The only real way it would have been found then I believe would be if someone happened to stumble across it.
100 years ago I don't think even everyone would know about it like people do now days. It would probably be 50 years before it was found in my opinion because it most likely crashed in the ocean and I dont believe in 1914 there was really any technology that would allow someone to travel to such depths or locate it.
What happened? Aliens took the plane to Mars as a joke but now dont know how to get it back here. Just kidding I believe there was some kind of malfunction with the plane crash landed in the ocean.
Your right. 100 years ago, most people probably wouldn't even know that this had happened.
DeleteAlso, I very much enjoy your alien theory. XD
I completely agree with the technology thing. This would not have been such a big deal fifty years ago, because there weren't as many technological advances.
DeleteTechnology has really affected this whole incident. i think we all know that the negative affect is that no one can still figure out what happened to the plain. A positive affect is they are doing everything they can to find this plane including lots and lots of technology. I think that if this happened 50 years ago i dont think they would get anywhere close to finding it as we are today. I believe that the plane malfunctioned and crashed into the ocean!
ReplyDeleteWell first what I think happened to the aircraft is that it truly is still missing, I do not think it went down in the water. There were two men aboard with fake passports and I believe this plane was hijacked and still is. These planes are worth millions upon millions of dollars so that could be the reason for the thievery. Also if this were to happen 50-100 years ago there would be no possible way they could find this plane, I know the satellites that we have put into space today are still trying to find this plane. Secretively I believe that they are making these images up to give an ending to this story, so people do not continuously worry about it.
ReplyDeletefirst off its great having all this technology to find the airplane and find out how it happened in theory i think if they look hard enough they will find it i think if this happened along time ago i would give them a slide because a long time ago they didn't have this type of technology there for it would be much harder to find it. im not sure what happend i don't know if the people in the articles are right for all we know they could be lying to us to hold in information.
ReplyDeleteI think the technology is improving every year they always find new ways and to be able to track where the plane was wrecked is great. They can go help out quick and get where they need to be. The people that are telling the articles dont really know what is going on either they could be making things up.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the advancements made have been impressive, but with a lack of evidence the media should be careful about what they publish.
Deletei agree with technology growing every year and that media shouldnt just publish anything for people to see
DeleteA downside to technology in this case is the fact that everyone can go online and put their opinion about that story without thinking maybe the family members could read them.
DeleteTechnology aids in the search for the missing flight. The media, however, can abuse it's power and with the lack of information it can end up publicizing false information. I'm not quite sure as to what happened to the missing flight.
ReplyDeleteYou have a point. I am not sure whether or not all the information we are receiving is true and there is no way for us to confirm that or not.
DeleteUnfortunately, the technology has not helped to solve this tragedy yet. Finding the plane 50 years ago would be more difficult. I think that Flight 370 had an unexpected accident on air; I don’t believe any of the media until the Malaysia airlines complete their investigation. I wish the best luck to the investigators, and I hope that in the future technology could prevent accidents like this one.
ReplyDeleteI agree it's very unfortunate that technology hasn't been able to solve this tragedy. It's almost like we are at the same point we would have been 50 or 100 years ago in finding the plane.
DeleteEveryone says technology is really advanced in my opinion its not too advanced if they have not solved this tragedy yet, but technology is improving every year and its not like there not trying to find ways how to solve it and where the plane had crash. I hope they find out how this happened and in the future can find ways how this want happen again.
ReplyDeleteWith all of the technology we have today I am very surprised they haven't found the plane yet. If the transmitter wouldn't have been turned off, I'm sure it would increase the chances of finding the plane faster. The ocean is obviously massive so even with the technology they use to take pictures underwater might not be enough or might take them a very long time. We have a huge advantage today than say 50 or 100 years ago where back then the resources they had might force them to give up the search. I really don't know what to think about this. The fact that there isn't any piece of the plane visible from satellite is very interesting. Many family members who had relatives on the plane seem to refuse the idea that the plane crashed into the ocean. I hope they find the plane soon whether it's in the ocean or was hi-jacked.
ReplyDeleteThis entire situation is being affected positively by technology because they are able to use satellites as well as other tools to find the debris that they believe to be the airplane. However, it is also affected negatively because the technology is struggling to keep up with the large area that needs to be examined.This would definitely go over differently either 50 or 100 years ago. We may be receiving information slowly, but we are still making progress. 50 years ago we would have had a lot less technology to help us and most of this would have been done by hand. 100 years ago, we may not have even tried to explore it. I think the plane was running low on gas and thought that trying to land on Australia's west coast. I believe they were attempting to get there, but could not make it with what little gas they had left and ended up crashing into the sea.
ReplyDeleteI do not think that this would have happened fifty years ago, due to the fact that we didn't have as many technological advancements.
ReplyDeleteThis whole story is bringing up questions as to how safe and how effective is the technology we have today. How on earth with all the advances and all the spy acts on people could a plane of that size go missing without a trace. I think this is bringing up a negative side of technology that shows just how much further we need to take it and more accomplishments need to be made. I think that if this had happened 50 to 100 years ago there would be a lot more panic and there would be very few ways to find this plane.
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