| > there is nothing to indicate that they concluded that the keys must be under the lights "ATSB chose to assume that the plane spiraled in close" based on their resource constraints. The resources are the light. They ruled out--according to this source--a hypothesis based on where the light was. > the other option would have been to not even start searching Why?! Even when ATSB chose their hypothesis the entire area wasn't searched. > there are free tools which provide almost the same answer the professional tools do Not for flightops! (And not this one.) > but can be misleading in edge cases is further evidence that the technology is complicated Have you flown a plane? This isn't an edge case issue, it means MA flightops was always blind on takeoff and approach for its entire fleet. That they thought this website was appropriate for the task represents a massive lack of training and protocol, let alone tooling or oversight. > You think it is that the operator's had a "free" display instead of a professional one. But who knows The article said MA flightops "were tracking the plane on the Flight Explorer website" (top comment). I pointed out that FE doesn't have a web-based professional app (comment you responded to). This isn't a "who knows" situation. > We could even ask why is it the airline who was bumbling around instead of just calling the ATC that the airplane is overdue Read the article at the top of this thread. Dempsey/Cloudberg goes into this in detail. |
That is your reading of the sentence. "choose to assume" does not mean that they ruled out other options. It especially does not mean that they ruled out other options when it is combined with the second part of the sentence which describe that the reason they took this assumption is due to resource constraints.
> Have you flown a plane?
Yes.
> This isn't a "who knows" situation.
You are misunderstanding the whole paragraph. The "who knows" situation is what you, JumpCrisscross was thinking when you wrote "What in the actual fuck.". If instead of emotional venting you would have wrote a complete and full sentence we would not have had to speculate what you are incredulous about. Clear?