Originally Posted by
fdgolf
Honestly, what are the real hopes for finding these boxes??
I would say.... not a lot.
However, one could hope for a bit of luck in actually finding some large parts of the wreckage itself.
I'm amazed actually that all the commentary is always about finding the recorders, and not about finding the wreckage field.
The exact location alone would tell us a lot more about the actual timing of the events, and each identifiable piece of wreckage will be able to 'tell its tale' to the experts, much like the few pieces picked up from the surface already have done.
And large parts of the structure (parts of the wings, large fragments of the fuselage, possibly the horizontal stabilisers, and the engines) would all have sunk relatively fast, and constitute far more obvious 'targets' for a search (sonar and otherwise) than two relatively 'minute' black (orange) boxes.
I suppose the real 'hope' is to find the wreckage itself... and that the FDR and CVR have gone down with the wreckage and can still be found that way.
CJ