having dealt with air france 447. why is it so difficult this one? oh, the answer is, piers, it s just such a big ocean out there. and the sensors that we have to use are so limited in range. it takes a long time to deploy them to the bottom both of the ocean and drag them along in the tracks. we have logistics problems. they get snarled up with things the sea state gets too high, we can t deploy them ball tecause waves are too long. it s a very unfriendly site for search operations. can we assume at the very least no plane will disappear again like this? do you share his optimistic that this is likely to not happen again? nothing happens that quickly in aviation. there s some good reasons for that. you don t want to buy the necessarily bleeding edge technology if it isn t proven, because after all lives are at stake here. however, in this case the technology is there. it s just a matter of really in