Finn47
Thanks.
Judging from that article, somebody seems to have been reading PPRuNe..... it's all on the thread.
But then.... most of the suggestions are logical conclusions from the event.
One thing I was going to suggest.....
We all know what will go into a mere cellphone, nowadays.
GPS, to start with.
And we all know about digital multimeters you can throw on the floor, hard, without any effect.
And what about the last time you threw your TV remote across the room, and it still worked?
Combine enough of todays technology, GPS and all, pack it into a small near-indestructible shell that will float, mass-produce it (to get the price right down), feed it with flight data from the IFE (why not? it can recharge the batteries at the same time) and spread a dozen or so all through the aircraft.
Only needs one or two to survive.
Just tossing this out as an idea for the moment, but it would solve far more than just AF447.
Dragging the ELB into the 21st century?
CJ