Air France and Malaysian Air Disasters - Will we never update our most dangerous weapons of terror?

Flights 447 and MH370 seem so similar, it is hard to believe that there is no public outcry for better technology in our least advanced transportation systems on the planet. An article just referred to the mystery of Malaysian Airline Flight MH 370 as if it were the flight in 1942 when Carole Lombard was lost without the least trouble. After all, we still use the same technology, more or less, as was used in 1942.

What a marvel!

And in both instances, separate transmissions from equipment were checked and in one instance used to find the wreckage. But what about our sophisticated air systems?

They largely do not exist.

We learned with Air France Flight 447 that it was not even presumed lost until hours had transpired from its last transmission because it is essentially over ocean where our pre-1942 technology cannot transmit a thing. Lost to the world for hours. Every airplane over ocean like Flight 447.

Normally, we would not have thought of airlines as potential terrorist weapons. Yet, 9/11 changed all that.

And now, with this in mind, and two separate incidents in to boot, we have the incredible fact that the world needs six or more nations, searches costing tens of millions of dollars and potentially never-to-be-found planes and people in order to perhaps begin to think about getting more modern technologies into planes. Or will we?

Some of the other facts are equally bizarre and bear consideration.

Sure, we have updated the flight recorders, but pilots or anyone else in a cockpit can still turn them off. Why is this? For what reason would we want to give pilots that opportunity. For that matter, why aren't the black boxes in secure areas of the plane, operated only through third parties? Who knows?

For that matter, why can't we set up systems that transmit from a crashed plane no matter where it crashes. Even I could design something that would work.

Why are we so mysteriously absent? Because we like to play this game every time another airplane goes down?

Then we have the search itself.

In criticizing the Chinese for their poor resolution in their satellite images, and now for even suggesting that the debris its satellites found is from the plane, we in the mighty US instead are more interested in hiding what we can do with our own. And where our gaps exist in our satellites. So we stay silent, just as the heads of our security systems tell us that we must remain in the dark about most things, including what they do.

(Is Obama really preventing us from determining if the CIA violated the law? Sure. Because now it is a matter of the Department of Justice, reviewing its own government.)

So when will we begin to do more?

And for that matter, when will our heads of security for the country stop treating us like idiots for believing their tripe about the stolen passports used by two Iranians were just normal, business as usual?