Originally Posted by Tourist
Aisle2c
"Tourist, whatever about the sarcasm, if it helps find the plane (or remnants of) quickly, then it should be done."
Why, exactly?
It seems to me that avoiding potential future causes of trouble is more important than finding a crash site.
Once you are dead, you are dead.
Forever.
The only time constraint is to spare the families anguish. That is valid, but not as important as avoiding future anguish.
No, the likelihood of saving anyone is remote, but getting to the crash site quickly will help in the recovery of as much of the aircraft as possible, which can help in explaining what happened.
As we currently can see, they don't even know what ocean the plane is in.