Originally Posted by
verticalflyer
Some comedy speculations on the chat I see, systems are not likely to be running with 50M+ of sea water on them! So bar some passive surveillance and pinging off structure they would not be getting anything very exciting back that had not been previously visible from a view from an airshow or embarkation.
I'm not sure what comedy speculations you are referring to, as nobody has been suggesting any transmissions other than from the pilot's PLB and surface traffic (the QE and other large SVs will be transmitting AIS info, as it is required). Airshows/embarkation etc tend to show the aircraft external surfaces only and it would indeed be a comedy speculation to imagine the low-observable package remained intact on water entry.